36. Judas Priest, 'British Steel' (Columbia, 1980) In 1980, Judas Priest stripped down their approach to straightforward heavy metal, “pounding the world, like a battering ram.” With the perennial metal anthems “Breaking the Law” and “Living After Midnight,” Priest finally broke through ...
36. Judas Priest, 'British Steel' (Columbia, 1980) In 1980, Judas Priest stripped down their approach to straightforward heavy metal, “pounding the world, like a battering ram.” With the perennial metal anthems “Breaking the Law” and “Living After Midnight,” Priest finally broke through ...
consumers only saw the light – or the dark, as it were – once the New Wave of British Heavy Metal started firing shots across the Atlantic in 1980; beginning with Judas Priest’s seminal ‘British Steel’ LP (Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and others wouldn’t really make a dent ‘til ...