JUDAS PRIEST ON TURBO CHARGED FIRE AFTER BEING LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

To end off my mini heavy metal/hard rock series, i will of course still write articles on heavy metal artists in the future at some stage, i thought i would end it off with a real ear piercing, bludgeoning, belligerent epic from the 80`s, from a band whose intense brutality made them the greatest english heavy metal band in history. Who else but JUDAS PRIEST, a band which formed in Birmingham way back in 1969 but only started achieving modest commercial success following the SAD WINGS OF DESTINY album in 1976 and numerous line-up changes in those seven years, an album still rated by many fans as the band's definitive release. Famous for the studded leather apparel and sado masochistic imagery of singer Rob Halford and guitarists Glen Tipton and K.K Dowling during the band's live performances, JUDAS PRIEST might have been a band stuck with a cheesy satanic name but for the most part the lyrical themes of the band were more to do with science fiction and the darker side of humanity, in terms of the latter much the same as Metallica. The album which OUT IN THE COLD comes off, TURBO, is considered to be patchy, i am only assuming that on the basis of two critic reviews i read about the album. It was released in 1986 at the height of the power ballad and pop metal revolution, Judas Priest never compromised artistically to achieve commercial success but OUT IN THE COLD was as close to a power ballad as the band ever came. It is monumentally heavy, i would call it power rock as much as heavy metal. This music clip even comes with an inspired animated Final Fantasy video.