On the US tour, they mark a dressing code that established a new fashion trend for metal fans. Stained Class is the album that Judas Priest will make the big changes in the evolution of metal music. When folk is transformed into metal! A great anthem. Also known as “Riff after riff”, the album also stood for Joan Baez’s famous adaptation of “Diamonds and Rust”, one of the best covers of all time. Heavy metal compositions in the literal sense, such as the “Starbreaker” and the incredible “Dissident Aggressor,” but also more sensitive moments like “Last Rose of Summer” gives variety to the album. The composing inspiration of the band is still going and the first Speed Metal nuggets are here: “The Sinner”, “Call for the priest”. Enough said.Įverything is running smoothly for the band and amongst disco, punk and rock decline (Zeppelin, Sabbath), things are easy for Judas Priest (but also ACDC and Kiss). We are talking about the album that includes “Victim of changes”, “The ripper” and “Tyrant”. With influences (Queen, Black Sabbath) being quite distinguishable on some tracks, the band hardens its sound, finds its identity, while Halford decides to use the full range of his voice. Leather, twin guitars, metal vocals with screams. “Sad Wings of Destiny,” the second album of Judas Priest, is the founding stone of the band’s image and sound, as well as the “metal” next to “heavy”. “Rocka Rolla” was a good debut for the band from West Bromwich (near Birmingham), but not enough to make them stand out. One powerful singer that played a definitive role for their success in the future. Downing when Halford joined the band and it displays the wide range of his unique voice. Rocka Rolla has one of the longest recorded tracks by Priest, Run of the Mill, which was written by K.K. Thankfully they decided to change producer for the next album and we enjoyed these songs that made their success granted. Bain also rejected “Whiskey Woman” which later, with contributions from Tipton, morphed into “Victim of Changes”. He did come up with songs like “Ripper”, “Tyrant”, “Epitaph”, but Bain considered them not commercial enough and rejected them. Glenn Tipton didn’t contribute with songs because he joined the band when they were recording the album. It has been recorded fully live in the studio because that was the way that their producer Rodger Bain recorded artists. A mix of rock, blues-rock, and hard rock with some some slight of progressive rock. The songs of the album are similar to the tend of the era. On September 1974 the first album of Judas Priest was released. Historic records, great moments for heavy metal, as well as big failures, member replacements, changes, expoeriments and more than one emphatic come-backs… this is Judas Priest! More Priest metal on Thursday June 19th at Terra Vibe… This gives us a great opportunity for a special about every album the mighty Priest have released from 1974 until now. The amazing Judas Priest return to Greece for this year’s Rockwave Festival after releasing an amazing album.
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