Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance (180g Vinyl LP)
$38.00
Distinguished by dual magnesium-burn guitars, leather-tough percussion, molten-hot melodies, and the unmistakable piercing falsetto of operatic vocalist, Screaming for Vengeance found Judas Priest laying waste to its contemporaries’ softer, cheesier hard-rock styles. An effort on which precision-based speed, mainstream accessibility, and resilient attitude meet in equilibrium, the 1982 set remains the British metal legends’ top-selling record. Staked by the breakout “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’,” which burns white-hot with foot-pounding riffs, prize-fighting percussion, and singer Rob Halford’s gun-for-hire blare, Screaming for Vengeance clutches hold of the jugular and doesn’t let go. A return to the band’s gritty, purist roots, the record revisits the themes of darkness, menace, and the unknown firmly established on the pioneering Stained Class and Killing Machine.
- The Hellion
- Electric Eye
- Riding On The Wind
- Bloodstone
- (Take These) Chains
- Pain And Pleasure
- Screaming For Vengeance
- You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
- Fever
- Devil’s Child
With the one-two opening tandem of the instrumental “The Hellion” and stomping “Electric Eye,” Priest sounds utterly futuristic and terrifying, the instruments seemingly on a swivel and the sawed-off tones flooding the guitar solos with intimidation. A classic head-out-to-the highway anthem (“Riding on the Wind”), a racing proto-thrash banger (“Screaming for Vengeance”), and a scorching exorcism (“Devil’s Child”) function as the metal-hued bolts that hold the foundations of this Top 20-charting benchmark in place. Perhaps more so here than on any other record, Priest spit-shines hooks and collusive six-string harmonic leads to perfection, giving listeners yin-yang doses of pain and pleasure, sweet and bitter. Songs at once invite sing-a-longs and fist-pumping responses. Screaming for Vengeance marked the last time Priest would sound this heavy in the ’80s.
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