Onward to more positive things.
This year marks one of the probably most unnoticed and minor anniversaries for the band: it's ten years since their epic double concept album, Nostradamus!
Now that it's in the past, what's the general opinion of this album? I loved it back then and I love it now. Sure, I can concede that the second disc is far weaker than the first, but just like DT with The Astonishing, they showed huge courage in their desire to break off the beaten path (and Priest were even more daring, 'cause they never ever attempted something even remotely close to this, while DT are prog and they already made Scenes, and they were just into their second album after the reunion), and the result was ranging from good to excellent, with the occasional little cheese here and there.
The title track is among their best anthemic and fast paced songs, and Prophecy is an addictive opener as any. Revelations, Pestilence and Plague, Conquest are solid pieces that would have elevated the other recent albums, and Lost Love is such an atmospheric and poetic songs in the vein of early soft pieces such as Before the Dawn.
At least DT actually went out to play the album in full. To go from "Priest will record a douple concept album about Nostradamus to be performed in its entirety" to play only two songs live - the opener and, head scratchingly, a slow and half boring middle tempo song, Death, while the wonderful title track, even more WTFingly, was played only as outro tape, was a bit sad.