Judas Priest/Awesome

HE! IS! THE! All! THE! TROPES! THIS! IS! THE! ALL! THE! TROPES!

"SWORN TO AVENGE CONDEMNED TO HELL TEMPT NOT THE BLADE ALL FEAR THE SEEEEEEEEEEEEEENTINEL!"
 * If we're talking about Awesome Music, we shouldn't forget Sad Wings of Destiny.
 * All hear my warning, never turn your back on "The Ripper".
 * And "Victim of Changes".
 * 1977's Sin After Sin gave us many great tracks.
 * "Dissident Aggressor", a song with one of Halford's greatest screams IN THE INTRO.
 * 1978's Stained Class.
 * Nobody else had done anything as heavy as "Exciter" in 1978.
 * "Beyond the Realms of Death" is just beautiful.
 * From 1979's Killing Machine:
 * "Delivering the Goods". Not even Van Halen had performed riffs that fast!
 * British Steel, start to finish
 * Especially "Rapid Fire" and "Breaking the Law".
 * LIVIN! AFTER MIDNIGHT! ROCKING! TO THE DAWN! LOVING! 'TILL THE MORNING! THEN I'M GONE! I'M GONE!!!
 * Point of Entry is kind of a blah album, but it has awesome stuff in there.
 * "Hot Rockin'" really stands out. It's the perfect anthem for a night on the town - assuming, of course, that your date is a leather-and-spandex-clad biker chick.
 * SO I'M HEADIN' OUT TO THE HIGHWAY! I'VE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE AT ALL!
 * Screaming for Vengeance, start to finish.
 * "The Hellion", probably, the greatest intro track of all time. Unbelievably epic.
 * I'M MADE OF METAL! MY CIRCUITS GLEAM! I AM PERPETUAL, I KEEP THE COUNTRY CLEAN~! I'M ELECTED, ELECTRIC SPY! I'M ELECTED, PRO-TECTED, DE-TECTED, ELECTRIC EYEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
 * YES I'M RIDIN', RIDIN' ON THE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNDDDDD!!! Especially the guitar solo.
 * Defenders Of The Faith has several gems:
 * "The Sentinel", which has Glenn and K.K.'s best "guitar duel" ever recorded

"Thousand of cars and a million guitars
 * The bafflingly hot "Eat Me Alive" in which they troll the PMRC with amazing results.
 * "Freewheel Burning". The music video is the distilled essence of What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?
 * "Rock Hard, Ride Free". Words to live your life by.
 * The Heavy Meta anthem "Heavy Duty / Defenders of the Faith".
 * Turbo always seems to get slammed by hardcore metal fans, but it has it's share of awesome:
 * "Out in the Cold." Creepy Gothic synthesizers, a slowly epic riff, and an unabashed dark romanticism make this one a winner.
 * IIIIII'M! YOUR! TUUUUURRBOOOOO LOOOOVEEEEEER! TEEELLLLL ME! THERE'S NO! OTHEEEERRR!
 * The unabashed 'I'm better than you' of "Private Property".
 * "Love Bites": Extended interlocking guitar solos and a scream that makes Halford sound like he's turning into a werewolf.
 * Ram It Down has:
 * "Blood Red Skies", probably the definitive anthem for a Terminator-esque war against the machines.
 * The title track. It's the album opener, so naturally the first thing you hear is a piercing AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-. And of course, the Crazy Awesome lyrics:

Screaming with power in the air

We've found the place where the decibels race

This army of rock will be there!"


 * The epic Badass Boast that is "Hard as Iron".
 * Painkiller, start to finish.
 * FAS-TER-THAN-A-LA-SER-BUL-LET! LOU-DER-THAN-AN-AT-OM-BOMB!
 * The Affably Evil "A Touch Of Evil" IN THE NIGHT, COME TO ME, YOU KNOW I WANT YOUR TOUCH OF EVIL!!!
 * "All Guns Blazing". A very apt name.
 * Even more epic on Painkiller: "One Shot At Glory".
 * Leather Rebel! LIGHTNING IN THE DARK! Leather Rebel! With a burning heart!
 * The largely underrated "Hell Patrol", best known for coining the terms "vaporapeize" and "paratamize."
 * "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" which should be the theme of the Inquisition. Every Inquisition.
 * "HERE COMES THE METAL MELTDOWN RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
 * "Living Bad Dreams" which they waited over 10 years to finally release.
 * "Nightcrawler".
 * Most of the Jugulator is rather average but there are exceptions:
 * "Bullet Train".
 * "Cathedral Spires".
 * Demolition has:
 * "Subterfuge".
 * "Feed On Me".
 * "One On One".
 * Angel of Retribution, the group's big comeback album in 2005, is much better than you'd expect. Standouts:
 * "Deal With the Devil" (classic '80s-style metal, but doesn't sound dated at all)
 * "Revolution" (a lot like Queen's "We Will Rock You," but even more Badass)
 * "Worth Fighting For" (a lusciously melancholy cowboy/Western-style number, with a Buck Owens-like riff and Rob singing in a decent American accent; he even sounds a bit like Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots!)
 * "Hellrider" (Yes, it's a bit Narm-y, with Rob sounding kind of like the Wicked Witch of the West at some points, but it's damn near irresistible.)
 * NOOOOOOOOSTRADAMUS!!! VIIIIIIIINDICATION!!! NOOOOOOOOOSTRADAMUS!!! IIIIIIISSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAAAVEENGEEEEEEED!!!
 * I AM NOSTRADAMUS!!! Do you believe? I AM NOSTRADAMUS!!!! That I can see?