Album · 1978
Stained Class
by Judas Priest
Stained Class is an album by Judas Priest, released in 1978 on Columbia, with 9 tracks.
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9 tracks · 44 min
Album · 1978
by Judas Priest
Stained Class is an album by Judas Priest, released in 1978 on Columbia, with 9 tracks.
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9 tracks · 44 min
Stained Class is the fourth album by British heavy metal group Judas Priest, released in February 1978. A popular album in the band's catalogue, Stained Class showcased a more streamlined songwriting style. The production is crisper, clearer, and cleaner than any of their preceding albums and any trace of blues and progressive rock influence had completely vanished. This is the only Judas Priest album to feature songwriting by all five members (one of Ian Hill's few contributions to the songwriting process for the band, and the sole contribution thereof by then-drummer Les Binks – the guitar riff for "Beyond the Realms of Death"). Following this album the band broke its songwriting team down to Rob Halford, K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton, with occasional contributions solely by Tipton. Lyrically, Stained Class is the darkest album in the band's catalog, its songs being relentlessly grim and violent. These include the horror-themed Saints In Hell, Savage, a song about brutalities inflicted on native tribes by colonialism, Hero's End, lamenting the numerous people made into legends by premature death, and the title track about man being a fallen, corrupted being. The sleeve artwork, …