Petra - Petrafied: The Very Best Of Petra

Reviewed by Tony Cummings

A handy compilation which neatly repackages most of their favourites (but misses my all time favourite, "Judas Kiss" from 'Not Of This World'). It begins with a cut from 'Washes Whiter Than', the 1979 album recorded just before Rob Frazier left the band and ends with "All Fired Up" and "First Love" from 1978's 'On Fire!', their last album for Star Song and therefore the last one represented here. Clearly the band have made some of the best rock to come out of Christendom and from those folk rock early days to the techno-rock period of 'Beat The System' through to the guitar-driven AOR which become their trademark, there's much here to delight the nostalgists and maybe earn a few more fans.