Metal Band of the Day (from the 80s) - Judas Priest

Favorite Album - Defenders of the Faith

Favorite Track - Rock Hard Ride Free

Key Member(s) - Everybody

Cool Point - Iron Maiden opened for Judas Priest in their 1980 "British Steel" tour

Best Solo - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll

Fashion (1 to 10) - Despite the fact that it's not my favorite pop metal style, they paved the way for Metal S&M Fashion - 9

Comments

Whoo boy! This goes down as one of my all-time favorite albums ever created. It doesn't get boring and you can listen to it straight through. It's hard to top this. The guitar tone was at its peak before it sounded light digital garbage in their later 80s stuff, Rob Halford was at his peak, Glen Tipton RIPPED IT UP on every solo with beautiful Marshall JCM 800 tone, and each song gets you going or moves you.

This album brings me back to when I lived in St. Louis and would drive home at night on the deserted city streets with heavy levels of Urban Decay and the atmosphere was always cold. Good tough guy music.

Judas Priest is a band that paved the way for metal and made metal just that, unquestionably metal. Their initial albums make me think of an ok (or bad) rock band with some metal songs mixed in, but coming to think of it, one of my all-time favorite Priest songs is Victim of Changes which was released in 1976! That's a badass song for 76.

Judas Priest made metal something of a heavy respectable force and will always be remember as one of the greatest bands of the 80s (and even today).

Remember to say THEY ROCK HARD \m/ in the comments if you want to vote for them as the best from the 80s

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