Judas Priest ~ Defenders Of The Faith ~ 12" VINYL RECORD LP 2017 Germany ••NEW••

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Judas Priest
Defenders Of The Faith
 12"
VINYL
RECORD LP
BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED


Columbia Records
Sony Music Entertainment
88985390881
UPC | 889853908813
1985, 2017
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Freewheel Burning
2. Jawbreaker
3. Rock Hard Ride Free
4. The Sentinel

SIDE B
1. Love Bites
2. Eat Me Alive
3. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
4. Night Comes Down
5. Heavy Duty
6. Defenders Of The Faith

Hot on the heels of Screaming for Vengeance going platinum, Priest returned to Ibiza Sound studios in Spain with producer Tom Allom to record a follow-up. By all accounts the recorded sessions were debauched, but in spite of pleasurable distractions, the band released an even harder, more ferocious follow-up. Defenders of the Faith doesn’t have a knockout single the way Screaming for Vengeance does (it also went platinum, but none of its singles performed the way “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” did), but it’s a far more consistent record. Against all odds, it shipped less than two years after Screaming dropped.

From the opening twin lead salvo of “Freewheel Burning” to the almost sacred mantra that closes the title track, every song on Defenders kills. Judas Priest were so thoroughly themselves that even “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”, a song delivered by outside songwriter Bob Halligan, Jr., sounds like pure Priest. Even better, it’s a stylish and varied listen. Its predecessor’s ballads are nowhere to be found. In their stead, Judas Priest delivered moody riches — the vampiric “Love Bites” is a fan favorite. In fact, “fan favorite” is probably the best way to describe Defenders as a whole — at the time, heavy metal was still a pejorative term to most people despite the genre’s commercial ascent, and Priest’s contemporaries in the then-defunct Led Zeppelin and even Black Sabbath were trying to distance themselves from the term.

Not Priest, though. On Defenders, they embraced the metal genre tag as a religious doctrine to be safeguarded and appointed themselves its champions. SHIPPING TO USA ONLY
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