JUDAS PRIEST — Stained Class (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Stained Class album cover Album · 1978 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
Exciter...

Genre: heavy metal

Another great album by the gods of metal, "Stained Class" opens up with the for its time very speedy "Exciter" whose breakneck speed is still breathtaking in this day and age of death metal, thrash metal, speed metal, grindcore and what not. "Red Heat, White Hot" is more of a Zeppelin-inspired affair, offering some groovy guitar riffs and some great drumming by Les Binks. "Better By You Better Than Me" is the infamous "suicide song" that was accused of having inspired two drugged up youths to shoot themselves with a shotgun - the ridiculous thing is that this is a Spooky Tooth cover, and the other ridiculous thing is that those kids had access to a shotgun in the first place. Anyway, the suit was dismissed, and it's not even among the best songs the band recorded. "Stained Class" is an all out metal track which makes excellent use of Downing and Tipton's two guitars and Halford's amazing vocal range, as do "Invader" (one of my favorites of the album), "Saints In Hell", "Savage", and "Heroes End". The ballad-cum-supermetal track "Beyond the Realms of Death" is another highlight.

"Stained Class" is a heavy metal classic that fans of metal - young and old - should at least give a listen.
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