Just a Touch of Heavy Metal

   

I suppose that I do have an eclectic taste in music. For me, one genre simply isn't enough.

Yet oddly enough I never found the American Rock bands of the 1980's very appealing.

Bands like Bon Jovi, Van Halen or Guns and Roses. My allegiance was to the true masters

of Rock like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Hawkwind.

And so emerging a bit later was a British band called Judas Priest who didn't taste their first

real success until 1982 with their best selling album 'Screaming for Vengeance.' 

The album also brought about their top selling hit 'You've Got Another Thing Coming' as

featured in the video above.

Lead frontman Rob Halford actually left the band in 1992 but rejoined 11 years later in 2003

which many said was inevitable. After all Judas Priest without Halford was like Queen

without Freddie Mercury or Deep Purple without Ian Gillan.

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Below is Hawkwind with 'Master of The Universe' taken from their album Space Ritual.

It's one of my favourite all time headbanging classics.

Prepare to blast off. It's a real gem.

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