Killing Machine
by Judas Priest
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 October 1978
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 45:50
- Community rating: 3.61/5 from 9 ratings
Artists on this release: K. K. Downing, Ian Hill, Les Binks, Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Released concurrently with their adoption of a trademark leather-and-studs biker aesthetic, Judas Priest streamlined their complex metal sound into significantly punchier, radio-friendly structures on 'Killing Machine' (known in the US as 'Hell Bent for Leather'). The record is fiercely energetic and intensely heavy, loaded with highly rhythmic, sexually charged heavy metal anthems.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, guitar-driven, gallop, powerful
Tracklist
- Delivering the Goods (4:17)
- Rock Forever (3:19)
- Evening Star (4:06)
- Hell Bent for Leather (2:40)
- Take on the World (3:00)
- Burnin' Up (4:06)
- The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) (3:22)
- Killing Machine (3:01)
- Running Wild (2:57)
- Before the Dawn (3:23)
- Evil Fantasies (4:13)
- Fight for Your Life (4:04)
- Riding on the Wind - Live (3:15)
Credits
- Judas Priest - primary artist, co-producer
- Ian Hill - bass
- Roslav Szaybo - design [cover]
- Les Binks - drums
- Andrew Clark - engineer [assistant]
- Andy Jackson - engineer [assistant]
- Damian Korner - engineer [assistant]
- Kevin Dallimore - engineer [assistant]
- Glenn Tipton - lead guitar, written-by
- K. K. Downing - lead guitar, written-by
- Rob Halford - lead vocals, written-by
- Bob Elsdale - photography by
- James Guthrie - producer, engineer