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Best Judas Priest album

>>127147606 (OP)
God-tier classic metal album, although the production is kinda meh

>>127147606 (OP)
It's crazy how the run of Sad Wings, Sin After Sin and Stained Class rewrote the template of heavy metal one by one. SWOD introduced a new kind of heaviness, SAS introduced the speed and percussive aggression, and SC brought it all together with a refined finish.

>>127148423
>Sin After Sin rewrote the template of heavy metal one by one
Based.

>>127147606 (OP)
Can't listen to Priest anymore after learning Halford was a gay rapist.
RIP Jani Lane

>>127147606 (OP)
the unleashed in the east versions were much better

It's not my favorite Priest, but the combo of the album title and artwork is fucking awesome

for me it personally stays behind Painkiller, Defenders of the Faith and Screaming for Vengeance (in that order)

>>127148798
ditto for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

>>127148840
ah yes, I also forgot Sin After Sin which is a personal favourite of mine.

>>127148754
fake news

>>127147606 (OP)
Cool heavy metal album, but Priest really manifested their own unique style and changed rock forever with their next album, Sin After Sin.

>>127148840
>t. usaean

The songs that appeared on Unleashed In The East, (Or Priest In The East, depending on what country you live in) are much better live, than in the studio.

>>127148754
RAPING THAT ASS
RAPING THAT ASS

RAPING THAT ASS
RAAAAPING THAT ASS

>>127147606 (OP)
the actual first metal album

>>127147606 (OP)
Absolutely a masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvlq1F-X6Ko

>>127147606 (OP)
Stupid Americans play Side 2 first

>>127147606 (OP)
really poorly produced, even for 70s standards. it's always been hard for me to get into for that reason.

>>127147606 (OP)
Why did they ruin Genocide with that gay spoken word bit in the middle?

>>127147606 (OP)
Immaculate, flawless
>>127149325
>>127149705
Homosexual, faggot

>>127150230
hey man I'm not gay that's really mean

>>127147606 (OP)
Amazing record, but it’s no Stained Class, so it can’t be the best.

>>127148423
Correct

Dreamer Deceiver has the best guitar solo of all time

>>127150777
Possibly. Lol

>>127147606 (OP)
Based OG Priest thread. As the saying goes, “Sabbath invented Metal, Priest perfected it.”

>>127147606 (OP)
Never understood the hype behind it. Besides the proggy song, i cant anything to like there

Meh guitar tone

>>127151380
Ok, buddy.

>>127147606 (OP)
Great album. Essential along with Sin after Sin and Stained Class.

>>127151373
yeah peak priest was like point of entry through ram it down. Sad wings and rocka rolla was just shitty gay rock but a few songs like Beyond the realms of Death are good and the live performances later on are better than the album version

I guess every Judas fan has at least one acclaimed album they don't get it so much. For me it is Stained Class.

>>127151688
Point of Entry was the first good Priest album and Screaming for Vengeance is when they really started getting good

>>127148754
Why would Jani do a cover of Electric Eye then? Subtle cues from the lyrics perhaps, but it feels like a massive reach

>>127151698
>Point of Entry was the first good Priest album

KYS immediately.

>>127151698
bait

>>127149325
I always felt that way about Sin After Sin.
very murky sounding compared to SWoD

>>127147606 (OP)
Tyrant might be the most underrated Priest song ever. That riff is absolute kino.

When will Boomers and Metalheads admit that Metal was just the result of a bored Blues Rock band deciding to play Mars, the Bringer of War through an electric guitar amplifier one day?
>>127148754
Stop listening to most music ever made then. Musicians have always tended to be shady, flawed personalities.
Protip some of the best music ever made is/was made by horrible people.

>>127151688
Stained Class grew on me, because I learned Priest through British Steel. I never became fond of Screaming... besides its title track, always liked Defenders more and I suspect Priest do too. What to me seems peculiar is that whenever Metal Hammer brought up Sin After Sin, either as a review of a reissue or a review of Priest's history, they always downplayed it for its mixing/production, when in reality it's the first album where they have realised themselves. And although I grew up with Stained Class and grew to love it very quickly, I always skipped Exciter, although now that I think of it I miss it a bit, might play it later.

>>127147606 (OP)
Straightest music Halford ever made.

>>127147606 (OP)
For me, it is Sin After Sin