Killing Machine

And that track I played you was called The Banished.

And before that was Annihilator with their take on the Judas Priest classic Hell Bent for Leather.

Take it from the bonus edition type, digipack type thing.

The album set the world on fire.

We'll start with Stained Class, uh, Priest's fourth studio album.

First of two records released by Priest in 1978, along with Killing Machine, of course.

Um, it's produced by Dennis Mackay.

This record is actually, speaking of Rolling Stones, although there's no correlation between the actual Rolling Stones and the magazine Rolling Stone, but they are number 43 in Rolling Stone's top 100 metal record.

Um-

Mm-hmm

... once we get into Killing Machine, we're going into a direction that I don't p- that I'm not a particularly big fan of.

That I-

Yes.

You had Hell Bent for Leather with, uh, Rob.

He, he came with a, with a Harley on stage.

Yep.

That's, that's ...

It's, it's different nowadays.

I mean, just think, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stay in Class, Hell Bent for Leather, Killing Machine, you know, all came out, well, and you could just-

Four years

Absolutely magnificent stuff, and a band that was synonymous with that sort of early 80s sound.

And before that, a band that is still going strong to this day, Judas Priest from the 1978 absolute masterpiece, which is Killing Machine, and that was Hell Went For Leather, written by Glenn Tipson.

And Brian reminded me that a couple of weeks ago, Priest played at Hammersmith Odeon, oops, whatever it's called now, and uh ian hill the bass player had to uh miss his first judas priest gig in 56 years what a run of being the bass player in a band i can't think of anyone that's been in a band longer maybe billy gibbons has been the lead guitarist as easy top for longer and of course geddy and alex in rush and so on but uh absolutely magnificent stuff replaced by dave rimmer who is in elegant weapons with richie faulkner hence the link back to priest great stuff it is the letter k this week with matt and brian matt rogers that's me and brian meli who's doing his lovely irish voice dance slash salute you can't see it i wish you could because it's great so brian what is next my friend

We are going with a classic heart tune, and it's a cover to cover it this week with the wonderful Eric Grondvall on the vocals and Shez Cain, because it's a letter K this week, and it's that heart classic alone.