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Judas Priest - British Steel



8.4 | 1214 votes |
Release date: 19 April 1980
Style: Hard rock, Heavy metal

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Disc I
01. Rapid Fire
02. Metal Gods
03. Breaking The Law
04. Grinder
05. United
06. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
07. Living After Midnight
08. The Rage
09. Steeler
10. Red, White & Blue [2001 re-release bonus]
11. Grinder [Live at Long Beach Arena, 5 May 1984] [2001 re-release bonus]

Disc II [CD] [Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena][30th Anniversary Edition bonus]
01. Rapid Fire
02. Metal Gods
03. Breaking The Law
04. Grinder
05. United
06. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
07. Living After Midnight
08. The Rage
09. Steeler
10. The Ripper
11. Hell Patrol
12. Victim Of Changes
13. Freewheel Burning
14. Diamonds & Rust [Joan Baez cover]
15. You've Got Another Thing Coming

Disc III [DVD] [Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena][30th Anniversary Edition bonus]
01. Rapid Fire
02. Metal Gods
03. Breaking The Law
04. Grinder
05. United
06. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
07. Living After Midnight
08. The Rage
09. Steeler
10. The Ripper
11. The Prophecy
12. Hell Patrol
13. Victim Of Changes
14. Freewheel Burning
15. Diamonds & Rust [Joan Baez cover]
16. You've Got Another Thing Coming
+ Interview: The Making Of British Steel [bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1980: 9
Featured in "Getting Into: Judas Priest"

Additional info
Produced by Tom Allom.

Staff review by
Pierre Tombale
Rating:
5.0
Obviously not the best start into the 80's is this Judas Priest album, although it contains some of the bands classics such as 'Metal Gods', 'Breaking The Law' and 'Living After Midnight', but even these songs have seen better times especially as on stage performances.

Nearly all songs on 'British Steel' fail to bring up the metal feeling that the 70's stuff did. The faster the songs the poorer they are, maybe Priest were still tired of their world tour when they recorded this album saying: hey let's make something slower.You can consider it better looking at it as a rock album (with slight american influences regarding the style, which is really irony of fate when you look at the title) than as a metal album. As a rock album it is fun listening, but not at all times, you should at least be in the mood!

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published 16.11.2003 | Comments (63)

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22.03.2020 - 13:01
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by JoHn Doe on 22.03.2020 at 11:18

one of the dumbest things i've read that you posted...

All idea about Warriors of Steel, bother of Steel, its like Conan who found black Steel and crushed manowar bride

This albun sounds as heavy metal in moder mening, on albuns before was so heavy unless 2 Sabbath albums. After this more n more bands start to sound hm, maybe whit out this there wo h be nwobhm, who knows where would Maiden be
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22.03.2020 - 13:19
JoHn Doe

Written by Bad English on 22.03.2020 at 13:01

All idea about Warriors of Steel, bother of Steel, its like Conan who found black Steel and crushed manowar bride

This albun sounds as heavy metal in moder mening, on albuns before was so heavy unless 2 Sabbath albums. After this more n more bands start to sound hm, maybe whit out this there wo h be nwobhm, who knows where would Maiden be

Don't know what you're trying to say.
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15.09.2020 - 17:42
Rating: 5
majormalfunction

First album with Dave Holland. And his drumming is one of the factors why I consider Priest 80's records are pretty much dead in the water from the start. His playing style is so numb and lacks any kind of feeling to give the songs something extra. Screaming and Defenders have great tracks but in pretty much all cases the songs sounds waaay better on live albums with Scott Travis or Halford solo.

British Steel is overall a boring and uninspiring album with some alright tunes. Pretty much never listen to this one.
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28.06.2021 - 15:46
blackwreath13

90% of the comments, shitting on it.
Rating, 8.5...

I agree that it shouldn't be held up so high (I feel the same way about Number of the Beast), most of the time it's giving me Hard Rock when what I want is Metal but I guess bands have bills to pay too.

Breaking the Law is a fun singalong anthem and its video is hilariously daft but the true redeemer imo is Rapid Fire.
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22.07.2022 - 16:06
Rating: 4
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
I'm sorry for everything I've ever said on Painkiller, this is much worse
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04.12.2023 - 04:13
Rating: 8
xenomorph100

Really like this one. catchy!
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19.12.2023 - 12:38
Rating: 7
T. T. B. Dragon

This is a somewhat disappointing album, most of the songs are uninteresting and a bit generic, except Breaking The Law and Metal Gods, The Rage, Steeler and maybe Living After Midnight and Grinder on a day when I'm in a good mood, besides Most songs sound better in the live versions, like Breaking The Law, which for me the live version is much better.
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