Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
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Artist: Judas PriestEdition: Music CD
Format: Gold CD
CD Release Date: 2010-01-19
Music Label: Audio Fidelity
Soundtracks:
- Delivering the Goods
- Rock Forever
- Evening Star
- Hell Bent for Leather
- Take on the World
- Burnin' Up
- The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)
- Killing Machine
- Running Wild
- Before the Dawn
- Evil Fantasies
Music reviews of Hell Bent for Leather
Music Review: AF Gold CD is the definitive version:
Rating: 5 Stars
Steve Hoffman did a fantastic job remastering Hell Bent for Leather from the original master tapes. Finally, we can hear Judas Priest as they must have sounded when the album was first being mixed in the studio. Compression, loudness, and all the other gimmicks that degrade the sound of most CDs are nowhere to be found here.
I love how textured the music sounds now with a huge 3 dimensional soundstage. The symbols are so clear, the snare is sharp, and the bass will punch you in the gut. The full range of Rob Halford's voice can truly be appreciated now. I am amazed at how much more clarity and detail I am hearing compared to the 2001 remaster; the gold CD simply sounds more real.
Although I love it, Hell Bent for Leather previously was not my favorite Judas Priest album. This CD sounds so good however, that even after a few months I am still playing it far more than any of my other Priest CDs.
If you don't have the AF gold Steve Hoffman remaster then you are missing out on the definitive pressing of Hell Bent for Leather.
For context this CD was played on my following audio equipment:
Digital Front End: CAL Delta Transport and Alpha 24/96 DAC with Amperex Bugle Boy Tubes
Pre Amplifier: Acurus L10
Amplification: Aragon 8008 BB
Speaker System: Alon V mk 3
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Description of Hell Bent for Leather
For Judas Priest (and, therefore, for heavy metal), 1979 was a watershed year. Studded leather and Harley-Davidsons made their way onto the Judas Priest stage and more driving, direct, breakneck-paced anthems made Hell Bent for Leather (aka Killing Machine ) their first step toward the superstar band they were about to become. Halford leads the intense charge through Delivering the Goods; Burnin' Up; Evil Fantasies; Killing Machine; Hell Bent for Leather; Evening Star; Rock Forever one of the most influential metal moments of its era!While the title of this 1979 release perfectly fits the band's increasing S&M-inspired leather-and-chains imagery, it's a mature and fairly sharp thematic departure from its largely death-obsessed predecessor, Stained Class. While the Priest could have easily fallen into the same stultifying goth clichés as forebears like Black Sabbath, they expanded both their musical range and lyrical focus here, shrewdly burnishing the album's commercial potential in the bargain. Kicking off with the upbeat "Delivering the Goods" and the Skynyrd-worthy arena boogie of "Rock Forever," the band blasts through material that's as wide as Sin After Sin's, but better focused. There are expected metal clichés--a big rock ballad ("Before the Dawn") and some expected bad-ass posturing (the title track and "Killing Machine")--but even the band's occasional bowing to gothic expectations is informed with a sense of surprise and adventure, as witnessed by their cover of the disturbing Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac track "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Horn)." That much of this album's tack became inspiration--and then cliché--for the widespread metal revolution that Judas Priest helped foster is only testament to their enduring legacy. This digitally remastered edition features expanded artwork, new commentary by the band, and complete lyrics, as well as the bonus tracks "Fight for You Life" (a studio outtake later incorporated into "Rock Hard, Ride Free") and a manic live version "Riding on the Wind." --Jerry McCulley
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