Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)

Painkiller

Painkiller

El que Mata el Dolor

Faster than a bullet.
Terrifying scream.
Enraged and full of anger.
He’s half man and half machine.		>Más veloz que una bala.
>Alarido terrorífico.
>Encolerizado y lleno de ira.
>Es mitad hombre y mitad máquina.
Rides the Metal Monster
breathing smoke and fire.
Closing in with vengeance soaring high.		>Cabalga el Monstruo de Metal
>exhalando humo y fuego.
>Se acerca vengativo planeando en las alturas.
He is the Painkiller.
This is the Painkiller.		>Él es El que Mata el Dolor.
>Éste es El que Mata el Dolor.
Planet's devastated.
Mankind’s on its knees.
A saviour comes from out the skies
in answer to their pleas.		>El planeta, devastado.
>La humanidad, de rodillas.
>Un salvador llega del cielo
>en respuesta a sus plegarias.
Through boiling clouds of thunder,
blasting bolts of steel,
evil’s going under deadly wheels.		>A través de nubes hirvientes de tormenta,
>disparando tornillos de acero,
>el mal se desplaza sobre ruedas mortíferas.
Faster than a lazer bullet¹.
Louder than an atom bomb.
Chromium plated boiling metal.
Brighter than a thousand suns.		>Más rápido que una bala láser.
>Más estruendoso que una bomba atómica.
>Metal cromado hirviente.
>Más brillante que mil soles.
Flying high on rapture.
Stronger, free and brave.
Nevermore encaptured.
They’ve been brought back from the grave.		>Volando alto en éxtasis.
>Más fuerte, libre y valiente.
>Nunca más preso.
>Los han devuelto de la tumba.
With mankind resurrected
forever to survive.
Returns from Armageddon to the skies.		>Con la humanidad resucitada
>para vivir eternamente.
>Regresa del Armagedón a los cielos.
He is the Painkiller.
This is the Painkiller.
Wings of Steel - Painkiller.
Deadly wheels - Painkiller.		>Él es El que Mata el Dolor.
>Éste es El que Mata el Dolor.
>Alas de acero - El que Mata el Dolor.
>Ruedas mortíferas - El que Mata el Dolor.

Notas:

  1. “Faster than a lazer bullet”. Hoy día, la mas rápida y de largo alcance es la “bala láser” de Winchester de 37 g con 420 m/s.

  2. ¿Quién es el Painkiller?

    El Painkiller es otro más de los personajes fantásticos creados por Judas Priest, descrito como el Mesías del Metal enviado al mundo a purgarlo de aquellos que no son honestamente adeptos a la Causa Heavy. El Painkiller fue inspirado por el ángel caído de la portada de “Sad Wings of Destiny“, aunque realmente el nombre se debe al intento de suicidio de Rob Halford en el período de grabación del álbum “Turbo” tomando una alta dosis de analgésicos (painkillers, en inglés). La característica más notable del Painkiller, aparte de su cuerpo metálico, es que monta un monstruo metálico, una motocicleta con un dragón por chasis y dos sierras circulares a modo de ruedas.

  3. Comentarios de los músicos y del diseñador de la portada:

    “The idea was from the Sad Wings album cover. I approached the band with the idea that, ‘How would that angel in hell look like now in the future, robotic, riding a bike?’ It’s all about floating ideas, and it worked.” – Rob Halford, online chat, November 16, 2002.

    “I think the basic concept came out of conversations that we all had about taking the concept of an angel from the ‘Sad Wings Of Destiny‘ cover in a RoboCop type of mode. We put all this armor and stuff on it but it still had the wings -but they were made of steel and everything- and then we thought about the motorcycle that we always use and thought about making that into something unusual, like a man-machine kind of animal thing and then the dragon-bike developed out of that and all of these things came together.” – Rob Halford on Metal Shop, 1990.

    “It’s a typical fantasy Priest character, you don’t know whether it’s from heaven or hell but you do know you wouldn’t like to meet him on a dark night or to upset him. We did feel that maybe we’d over-used that type of image, but it’s sort of expected from us. And it’s just a bit of fun really.” – Glenn Tipton, The Masque.

    “The band originally suggested a Hell’s Angel-type character on a motorcycle, but also with a metallic creature. My recollection is that he would have been a pillion rider, or maybe even made into part of the bike. Eventually, I had the idea of flipping the idea on its head and having the metal creature sitting on the bike; making the bike the living creature instead. And the chainsaw idea came to me because my studio at the time was above a hardware shop!” – Mark Wilkinson, The Masque.