Anybody else have trouble listening to Halford at first? Halford's voice was so incredibly challenging when I first started listening to Priest. Priest has always had everything I wanted in a rock/metal song (I mean seriously, they have more riffs I like than even Metallica), but Halford's operatic vocal delivery was not one of those things. "Diamonds And Rust" literally made me cringe every time I listened to it (more like tried to listen to it). I think I started to grow used to Halford's voice after I listened to copious amounts of Slayer with Tom Araya's equally-as-intense vocals (and of course, copious amounts of black metal too lulz). Anyway, I'm now almost completely used to Halford now, but it took like 5 months for me to get used to him.
On an unrelated note, "March of the Damned" is a fantastic song.
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