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In the seventies Judas Priest still played blues based Heavy Metal. British Steel was Judas Priest's first album in the eighties. The album sounds totally different, than their first albums. Gone are the bluesy elements and gone are the complex songs. British Steel is heavy influenced by The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I personally, miss the warm sound of the seventies albums. The reason why I dislike a lot of '80 albums is because of the thin and cold sound most '80 records have. Besides the cold and thin sound I also miss songs with more complex twists and turns like older songs such as "Beyond The Realms Of Death" and "Victim Of Changes". Most songs on British Steel have one main idea and a guitar solo. There is not a lot of room for interesting lengthy instrumental parts.
British Steel was an important album for the band because the album made them very popular. Although I think that it is far from Priest's best album, it is considered as one of Priest's best albums. There are plenty of songs that can be considered as (live) classics. "Breaking The Law" and "Living After Midnight" are the two most well known songs on the album. The songs are short but catchy. Every real Metal fan knows these songs. Check out the cool video for "Breaking The Law" on the DVD Electric Eye.
"Rapid Fire" and "The Rage" are musically the most interesting songs. "Rapid Fire" is a fast and brutal song that can be categorized as an early attempt to play Speed Metal. Check out the cool solos in the song. "The Rage" is a pretty unusual song for Priest. It is a slow song with a haunting atmosphere. It is one of the few Judas Priest songs that start with a bass intro. "Grinder" and "Metal Gods" both are heavy mid-tempo tracks. "Metal Gods" contains a cool marching sound, that blends perfectly with the pace of the music . "United" is the worst song on the album. It is probably one of the worst Priest songs off all time. It is a drumbeat-orientated song. Especially the crowd vocals at the end of the song are horrible.
"British Steel" is an album that contains the highest percentage of Priest classics. Therefore it is a must have Priest album. Especially the albums British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Defenders Of The Faith can be seen as three typical eighties Judas priest albums. If you don't have British Steel but like the other two albums, then you should buy British Steel.
I highly recommend this album for people who like classic eighties like Iron Maiden and Saxon. If you are new to Priest then check out their best of album Metal Works. It is a two cd that features the Priest period '77-'93. It logically contains plenty of British Steel songs.
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Judas Priest has never released a bad cd. In fact, they are one of the greatest metal bands of all time, and one of the first. British Steel has to be one the best album ever done by these guys. Dave Holland's drum playing is excellecnt, and K.K. Downings and Glen Tipton's guitar playing is legendary. Ian Hill is a good bass player whose playing can actually be heard. Halford's vocal's are absolutely badass. You really need to look into this.
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"british steel" is preist's most solid effort (in my opinion), its the last "true" preist record because after this, they started to go commercial, but atleast they recorded this work of art before they came out with the stale "point of entery" and the radio freindly "screaming for vengence". this album is tied w/ hell bent for leather as the best preist album, overall its there heavest too. "grinder" "united" "rapid fire" are amoung my fav's but the whole thing is awesome in reality. this is definatly a canidate for the best heavy metal album of all time, in fact, i can't think of any thing else that defines heavy metal more than this one does. rob halford has a more rough "tough guy" vocal style on this album, which is a change from his high flasetto singing in the 70's, which gives this album a heavy gut wrenching feel to it. people have complained that preist simplyfied there music on this album, i disagree, they certainly shortened there songs but this is more in your face metal then "sin after sin" or "stained class" ever were, this album is preist's heaviest. i like to look at this album as a time when heavy metal was heavy metal, and not divided into all of these sub genres which eventually ruined heavy metal (thrash,death,pop,ect), this album is to preist what "back in black" was to ac/dc, or what "wheels of steel" was to saxon, thats the best way i can describe the signifigance of this album. this would definatly be in the top 5 greatest metal albums of all time, and unlike most albums, this truly deserves the hype it gets, don't listen to any one dising this album, they are just brainwashed mtv retards.
BRITISH STEEL ALL THE WAY
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i guess this would be tied w/ "hell bent for leather" as the best judas preist album, if "british steel" and "hell bent for leather" were one album, it would be the greatest heavy metal album in existance. "british steel" is alot like the previous studio album, it blends heavy,pop,and arena rock all in one tight package. i really enjoy the whole thing, i particularly enjoy "grinder" "rapid fire" "united" and "metal gods". if you are interested in classic metal, then get this, preserve the memory of real metal in this time of slipknot and linkin park puke rock.
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judas preist's british steel album is hard to judge, i personally don't think that this album is worthy of the acclaim it gets all of the time. to be honest, it sounds too dated, i know that alot of big famous albums came out in 1980 (ac/dc's back in black, sabbath's heaven&hell, ozzys debut, saxon's wheels of steel,ect) but unlike those aforementioned albums, british steel just lacks energy. i gave it two stars because it has 3 at most good tracks and the rest filler. the songs "grinder" and "rapid fire" are the best two cuts off of this album, the rest is just filler. i would not recommend this one because you might be dissapointed by it. this is an era where preist lost its complexity, thet went from writting epics like "sad wings of destiny" and "sin after sin" to this commercial crap, the song writting and riffs are sinfully simple, not much going on here. many people think turbo was commercial preist, but this is where they started going commercial, which is evident by the next album, point of entry.
just stay away from this one, get screaming for vengence instead.
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