
JUDAS PRIEST
Stained Class
Originally Released in 1978
1. Exciter
2. White Hot, Red Heat
3. Better By You, Better Than Me
4. Stained Class
5. Invader
6. Saints in Hell
7. Savage
8. Beyond the Realms Of Death
9. Heroes End
(For the purpose of discussion on the remasters)
10. Fire Burns Below
11. Better By You, Better Than Me (Live)
Ok, I'm gonna attempt to start something that will either be interesting or fail miserably. I'm opening up a sort of reviewer's roundtable, not just to staff, but all forum regulars. I'm hoping to make this sorta special. like our Iron Maiden or Testament feature. So, the subject matter is Judas Priest, and for the next 15 weeks (if my count is accurate), I invite you all to take part in a discussion of each studio album the Metal Gods have created over the course of their career. I'm not gonna go in chronological order, but the threads will be labeled appropriately. It'll be interesting to see which albums get more or less responses, etc., etc.
Alright, besides having the monumental "Beyond the Realms of Death," this album came out in 78, while the rest of the world was enraptured by disco and obssessed with punk. I love this album, the double bass kick of "Exciter" introduced Les Binks as the band's new drummer at the time.
Halford's soaring vocals kick the song into overdrive, of course.
Title track rules (one of my favorite moments in heavy metal history), Heroes End kicks ass, Saints In Hell, awesome.
Discuss. :Spin: