Judas Priest/Awesome

HE! IS! THE! All! THE! TROPES! THIS! IS! THE! ALL! THE! TROPES!

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• If we're talking about Awesome Music, we shouldn't forget Sad Wings of Destiny.
  • All hear my warning, never turn your back on "The Ripper".
  • And "Victim of Changes".
• 1977's Sin After Sin gave us many great tracks.
  • "Dissident Aggressor", a song with one of Halford's greatest screams IN THE INTRO.
• 1978's Stained Class.
  • Nobody else had done anything as heavy as "Exciter" in 1978.
  • "Beyond the Realms of Death" is just beautiful.
• From 1979's Killing Machine:
  • "Delivering the Goods". Not even Van Halen had performed riffs that fast!
• British Steel, start to finish
  • Especially "Rapid Fire" and "Breaking the Law".
  • LIVIN! AFTER MIDNIGHT! ROCKING! TO THE DAWN! LOVING! 'TILL THE MORNING! THEN I'M GONE! I'M GONE!!!
• Point of Entry is kind of a blah album, but it has awesome stuff in there.
  • "Hot Rockin'" really stands out. It's the perfect anthem for a night on the town - assuming, of course, that your date is a leather-and-spandex-clad biker chick.
  • SO I'M HEADIN' OUT TO THE HIGHWAY! I'VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE AT ALL!
• Screaming for Vengeance, start to finish.
  • "The Hellion", probably, the greatest intro track of all time. Unbelievably epic.
  • I'M MADE OF METAL! MY CIRCUITS GLEAM! I AM PERPETUAL, I KEEP THE COUNTRY CLEAN~! I'M ELECTED, ELECTRIC SPY! I'M ELECTED, PRO-TECTED, DE-TECTED, ELECTRIC EYEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
  • YES I'M RIDIN', RIDIN' ON THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNDDDDD!!! Especially the guitar solo.
• Defenders Of The Faith has several gems:
  • "The Sentinel", which has Glenn and K.K.'s best "guitar duel" ever recorded

SWORN TO AVENGE
CONDEMNED TO HELL
TEMPT NOT THE BLADE
ALL FEAR THE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEENTINEL!

• • The bafflingly hot "Eat Me Alive" in which they troll the PMRC with amazing results.
  • "Freewheel Burning". The music video is the distilled essence of What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?
  • "Rock Hard, Ride Free". Words to live your life by.
  • The Heavy Meta anthem "Heavy Duty / Defenders of the Faith".
• Turbo always seems to get slammed by hardcore metal fans, but it has it's share of awesome:
  • "Out in the Cold." Creepy Gothic synthesizers, a slowly epic riff, and an unabashed dark romanticism make this one a winner.
  • IIIIII'M! YOUR! TUUUUURRBOOOOO LOOOOVEEEEEER! TEEELLLLL ME! THERE'S NO! OTHEEEERRR!
  • The unabashed 'I'm better than you' of "Private Property".
  • "Love Bites": Extended interlocking guitar solos and a scream that makes Halford sound like he's turning into a werewolf.
• Ram It Down has:
  • "Blood Red Skies", probably the definitive anthem for a Terminator-esque war against the machines.
  • The title track. It's the album opener, so naturally the first thing you hear is a piercing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-. And of course, the Crazy Awesome lyrics:

Thousand of cars and a million guitars

Screaming with power in the air

We've found the place where the decibels race

This army of rock will be there!

• • The epic Badass Boast that is "Hard as Iron".
• Painkiller, start to finish.
  • FAS-TER-THAN-A-LA-SER-BUL-LET! LOU-DER-THAN-AN-AT-OM-BOMB!
  • The Affably Evil "A Touch Of Evil" IN THE NIGHT, COME TO ME, YOU KNOW I WANT YOUR TOUCH OF EVIL!!!
  • "All Guns Blazing". A very apt name.
  • Even more epic on Painkiller: "One Shot At Glory".
  • Leather Rebel! LIGHTNING IN THE DARK! Leather Rebel! With a burning heart!
  • The largely underrated "Hell Patrol", best known for coining the terms "vaporapeize" and "paratamize."
  • "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" which should be the theme of the Inquisition. Every Inquisition.
  • "HERE COMES THE METAL MELTDOWN RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
  • "Living Bad Dreams" which they waited over 10 years to finally release.
  • "Nightcrawler".
• Most of the Jugulator is rather average but there are exceptions:
  • "Bullet Train".
  • "Cathedral Spires".
• Demolition has:
  • "Subterfuge".
  • "Feed On Me".
  • "One On One".
• Angel of Retribution, the group's big comeback album in 2005, is much better than you'd expect. Standouts:
  • "Deal With the Devil" (classic '80s-style metal, but doesn't sound dated at all)
  • "Revolution" (a lot like Queen's "We Will Rock You," but even more Badass)
  • "Worth Fighting For" (a lusciously melancholy cowboy/Western-style number, with a Buck Owens-like riff and Rob singing in a decent American accent; he even sounds a bit like Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots!)
  • "Hellrider" (Yes, it's a bit Narm-y, with Rob sounding kind of like the Wicked Witch of the West at some points, but it's damn near irresistible.)
• NOOOOOOOOSTRADAMUS!!! VIIIIIIIINDICATION!!! NOOOOOOOOOSTRADAMUS!!! IIIIIIISSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAAAVEENGEEEEEEED!!!
  • I AM NOSTRADAMUS!!! Do you believe? I AM NOSTRADAMUS!!!! That I can see?