My favorite metal band!!
Judas Priest
35 years ago, the legendary British metal band, who set standards for most metal bands, released their Stained Class album. This would soon be almost destroyed by a hideous tragedy.
In early 1978, when the album was released, the guys in Priest just wanted their career to take off. After making an LP called Rocka Rolla which premiered on the 1976 album Sad Wings of Destiny, Priest had celebrated being taken on by Columbia Records after their Sin After Sin. But it was 'Stained Class' that really got them going.
In addition, they adopted a striking new logo, and futuristic looking cover that would basically redefine metal music and image, along with Rob Halford's leather bondage kink gear with metal studs on it. This album helped to set them apart from another metal band, the aptly named 'Heavy Metal Forefathers' and big brothers, another band from Birmingham, England, Black Sabbath.
One of their songs, "Exciter", could be considered to be the first speed metal song. Their cover version of Spooky Tooth's "Better by You, Better Than Me" was blamed for a gruesome suicide pact that left one man dead and another injured. Distraught, the men's families were severely misled by stupid lawyers who were hell-bent on blaming all of society's problems on heavy metal bands of the 1980s.
I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!
Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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