Stained Class
by Judas Priest
- Type: Album
- Released: 10 February 1978
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 54:03
- Community rating: 3.84/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Gary Wright, Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, Ian Hill, K. K. Downing, Les Binks
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Judas Priest completely excised their lingering blues-rock influences on 'Stained Class', effectively inventing the modern, galloping speed-metal blueprint. The album is an incredibly dark, heavily rhythmic, and fiercely energetic metal masterpiece, featuring blistering twin-guitar attacks and Rob Halford's piercing, passionate shrieks about science-fiction dread.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, science fiction, rhythmic, gallop, riff-heavy
Tracklist
- Exciter (5:32)
- White Heat, Red Hot (4:18)
- Better by You, Better Than Me (3:22)
- Stained Class (5:17)
- Invader (4:09)
- Saints in Hell (5:28)
- Savage (3:27)
- Beyond the Realms of Death (6:49)
- Heroes End (4:57)
- Fire Burns Below (6:58)
- Better by You, Better Than Me - Live (3:40)
Credits
- Judas Priest - primary artist, producer
- Ian Hill - bass guitar, written-by
- John Blackburn - coordinator [tour co-ordination]
- Roslav Szaybo - design
- Les Binks - drums, written-by
- Ken Thomas - engineer [advision], mixed by
- Paul Northfield - engineer [advision], mixed by
- Neil Ross - engineer [trident], mixed by
- Glenn Tipton - guitar, written-by
- K. K. Downing - guitar, written-by
- David Hemmings - management
- Ronald Kass - photography by
- Dennis Mackay - producer
- James Guthrie - producer
- Maurice Wilson - typography
- Rob Halford - vocals, written-by
- Gary Wright - written-by