Monday, March 2, 2015

#1605 Judas Priest - Stained Class

Did you know the just-reviewed John Wesley Harding track The Ballad of Frankie Lee and *Judas Priest* gave the band the name? Neither did I!

The blueprint for 80's metal: those nasal vocals, those agreeable hooks, those galloping drums, pretty much everything you'd come to expect, except without any burning need to be all DEVIL ZOMBIE BLOOD RESPECT MY GUITARING, all laid out in 1978. Learning!

Those vocals get old, and the whole approach starts to sound pretty samey by the end, but it's pretty rock solid shit 3.5/5

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