Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Hell Bent For Leather)
| Release date: | 9 October 1978 |
| Style: | Hard rock, Heavy metal |
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01. Delivering The Goods
02. Rock Forever
03. Evening Star
04. Hell Bent For Leather
05. Take On The World
06. Burnin' Up
07. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) [Fleetwood Mac cover]
08. Killing Machine
09. Running Wild
10. Before The Dawn
11. Evil Fantasies
12. Fight For Your Life [2001 remaster bonus]
13. Riding On The Wind [live] [2001 remaster bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1978: 5
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02. Rock Forever
03. Evening Star
04. Hell Bent For Leather
05. Take On The World
06. Burnin' Up
07. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) [Fleetwood Mac cover]
08. Killing Machine
09. Running Wild
10. Before The Dawn
11. Evil Fantasies
12. Fight For Your Life [2001 remaster bonus]
13. Riding On The Wind [live] [2001 remaster bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1978: 5
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Review
Lyrics Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford - vocals
Kenneth "K.K." Downing - guitar
Glenn Raymond Tipton - guitar
Leslie "Les" Binks - drums
Ian Frank Hill - bass
Additional info
Produced by James Guthrie and Judas Priest.
Originally released as "Killing Machine" in Britain and Europe, in 1978 without "The Green Manalishi", then re-released as "Hell Bent for Leather" in March, 1979 in the USA. The band themselves refer to it as "Killing Machine" consistently.
"Fight for Your Life" is a previously unreleased, early version of "Rock Hard, Ride Free" (which appears on Defenders of the Faith, 1984).
"Riding on the Wind" was recorded live at the US Festival, Glen Helen Park, Devore, California on May 29, 1983.
Rating:
8.5
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Rating: 8.5 |
The real 70's classic metal album 'Killing Machine' was recorded in 1978. Judas Priest could celebrate a world success. Back then the sound of metal was a bit different from what we know today, Killing Machine is very much rocking, as the whole 70's era of Judas Priest was. From this album we get several metal classics and many are my personal favorites from Priest. Read more ›› |
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1459  |
Yep, "Take on the World" is often referred to as a LUNKHEADED ANTHEM. It's a shocker.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
"Take On The World" worst Priest song? Quite possibly... though the worst songs on "Turbo" sure run it close! Compared with the likes of "Stained Class" and "Sad Wings Of Destiny", this is definitely a weaker album in comparison, but there are a lot of great songs on this one. Some really underrated, like "Burnin' Up". 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Angelic Storm on 12.01.2013 at 10:12 United is even worse than Take On The World 
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Ace Frawley on 12.01.2013 at 01:58 United even surpasses it in mornoheaded football anthemness. But Take On The World is of course also extremely dire
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.01.2013 at 11:06 At least they haven't played Take On The World live for quite some decades now and it takes only 2 minutes. United on the other hand... But I generally agree with the people here, this (which is entitled just Killing Machine) is a classic album and another of Priest's albums that was a huge influence on the metal scene overall. The guitar duel in The Green Manalishi has been redone over and over, including by Priest themselves.
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1459 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.01.2013 at 11:06 Forgot about that song. You're probably right about it being worse. I also reckon the album it is on - British Steel is weaker than Killing Machine, which I really quite like as an album.
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| LordFezzington Lost To Apathy Posts: 398  |
Written by Ace Frawley on 12.01.2013 at 12:08 A (dis)honourable mention should also go to 'Red, White & Blue'. Another terrible 'anthem' type song. Rubbish.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Valentin B on 12.01.2013 at 11:26 The album is called Hell Bent For Leather in the US hence that name in between []
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by Ace Frawley on 12.01.2013 at 12:08 100% agreed. British Steel is actually quite a weak album over all.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.01.2013 at 11:04 I dunno about that, at least "United" provides a bit of amusement, "Take On The World" is just dull.  About "Killing Machine" being better than "British Steel"... they are very similar albums in a lot of ways, but I think "Killing Machine" is marginally the better album. And of course, "British Steel" is quite overrated, even though some of the songs on it are great.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 12.01.2013 at 13:55 Of course I knew that, but it's only titled like that because of record company bullshit.. to me it will always be Killing Machine.
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1459 |
Written by [user id=144168] on 05.04.2014 at 20:06 I think this is a pretty harsh rating and assessment. I think there is still a lot of merit to this album. I really like it and I'm sure most Priest fans think quite highly of it too.
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| Azarath Free as a.. Fish Posts: 965  |
Yes, Killing Machine is better than British Steel. This is actually one of my favourite Priest albums, only beaten by the three great ones that preceded it. It's also a great sounding record.
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333  |
The cover song is best here IMO
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62012  |
Weaker album as others, has 2-3 hit songs, but rets of album is weak, still classic Priest, Priest simply cant be bad, but weaker song still exist.
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333 |
Written by Bad English on 06.09.2017 at 12:54 yes Delivering The Goods, Hell Bent For Leather and The Green Manalishi. Fleetwood Mac wins JP here on songwriting. Maybe i should lower score.
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5308  |
Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 13.07.2021 at 16:13 JP did a great cover of Green Manalishi, but you can't beat the original by Fleetwood Mac.
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333 |
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 14.07.2021 at 01:44 The original is indeed superb and one of the few songs I really like from FM. And having the cover on this album kind of exposes the poor songwriting in few of the songs in comparison. I like the JP version too quite a lot; it's one of my favorite songs from the early Judas Priest catalogue.
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