Screaming For Vengeance

Description

In the early 80s, a new musical movement, dubbed The New Wave of British Metal, swept across England. The conspirators include such heavy bands as Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, and Def Leppard, but Judas Priest is often credited as the originator and leader of the pack. Rob Halfords vocal histrionics and the dual guitar attack of K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton mesmerised metal-heads everywhere. While Priest had been together since the early-70s, the bands big U.S. breakthrough came with 1982s SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE. Like most other metal bands that broke through in the early 80s (Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, etc.), Judas Priest took advantage of the then-developing video medium. MTV put the clip for You Got Another Thing Coming in heavy rotation, and the song became one of heavy metals all-time classic anthems. Other album tracks, such as The Hellion, Electric Eye, (Take These) Chains, Devils Child, and the title composition, were all prime metal cuts. With its perfect balance of heavy riffing and melodicism, SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE is considered by many to be among the finest heavy metal albums ever made.