Night Crawler
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"Night Crawler" is a song by British
heavy metal
band
Judas Priest
, from their 1990
album Painkiller.
The song starts with a synthetic orchestra opening, fading into a sudden rough guitar riff. It continues until a fade-out, accompanied with wind effects. The verse is a lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist solo with the wind effects in the background. The opening riff fades-in and maintains with a pre-chorus and then a looping solo until a final fade-out.
The song is about a cruel monster, known as the Night Crawler, that comes straight out of hell, and when it does - a whole town is terrified. It describes how the future victims hide in their cellars with fear in their eyes, screaming, while the creature approaches. The Night Crawler scratches the window, calling out to the hiding victims. The electricity disrupts while it crawls down the stairs. The crawler instantly murders its victims, feasting on their flesh and blood.
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Judas Priest
Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
, from their 1990
1990 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.-Events:*January 21 – MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze...
album Painkiller.
The song starts with a synthetic orchestra opening, fading into a sudden rough guitar riff. It continues until a fade-out, accompanied with wind effects. The verse is a lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist solo with the wind effects in the background. The opening riff fades-in and maintains with a pre-chorus and then a looping solo until a final fade-out.
The song is about a cruel monster, known as the Night Crawler, that comes straight out of hell, and when it does - a whole town is terrified. It describes how the future victims hide in their cellars with fear in their eyes, screaming, while the creature approaches. The Night Crawler scratches the window, calling out to the hiding victims. The electricity disrupts while it crawls down the stairs. The crawler instantly murders its victims, feasting on their flesh and blood.
Personnel
- Rob HalfordRob HalfordRobert John Arthur "Rob" Halford is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed the "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, and after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's...
- vocals - Glenn TiptonGlenn TiptonGlenn Tipton is one of the Grammy Award-winning guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest...
- lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... - K.K. Downing - rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
- Ian HillIan HillIan Hill is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Grammy award winning heavy metal band, Judas Priest....
- bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Scott TravisScott TravisScott Travis is a Grammy Award winning American rock musician, best known as the drummer for the English heavy metal band Judas Priest and the American heavy metal band Racer X.-Biography:...
- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....