Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (1978)

Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather review by pritham Dsouza

Lineup:

• Rob Halford
• Glenn Tipton
• K.K. Downing
• Ian Hill
• Les Binks

Track Listing:

1. Delivering The Goods
2. Rock Forever
3. Evening Star
4. Hell Bent For Leather
5. Take On The World
6. Burnin' Up
7. The Green Manalishi
8. Killing Machine
9. Running Wild
10. Before The Dawn
11. Evil Fantasies

CBS records had a goose named Judas Priest that laid the golden eggs, and so before they ran out ot out their creative juices, they decided to push them to release another classic in the same year they released Stained Class.

only Priest could have pulled this off, release 2 pivitol metal albums in the same year!

continuing in the same vein as Stained, except most of the songs here are more hard rock than traditional metal. there are a few radio friendly songs here like Rock Forever and Take On The World and Evening Star and the only metal tracks are Hell Bent For Leather, Running wild and Fleetwood Mac's cover The Green Manalishi.

no priest album can be complete without a ballad, and before the dawn does just that, adds a soothing factor in a album filled with gems that would please the Hell's Angels biker gang.
Its safe to say this album was responsible for the rise of a lot of Bad Boys band like Twisted Sister and Motley Crue who credit this album for their musical direction.

if u love hard rock, then this is a must own classic.

my rating
7.5/10