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Judas Priest's Killing Machine seems to me like something forgotten older brother of the band generally considered classics par excellence recognized British Steel. Why the album does not enjoy such a renown as his successor, one may out of time, in which the plates came out, assess, in retrospect it must be noted to me that the albums high hardly differ.

Compared to its predecessor Stained Class Killing Machine is much better produced, has heavier guitars and has to offer more catchy, shorter songs. So it has all the properties that have the band's success drives the early eighties as Screaming for Vengeance or just British Steel. Garvierende cuts in the sound of the band, there was, in my opinion anyway for the first time in Turbo from 1986. However, I like Les Binks drumming better than that of Dave Holland, who drummed in the eighties for Judas Priest.

The songs themselves can convince me almost entirely. Delivering the Goods, Burnin Up or the stomping title track offer just that catchy, rocking material that Judas Priest has made it so popular. With the somewhat faster-paced Hell Bent for Leather and Running Wild, it behaves similarly, while can be found with Before the Dawn for the first time a very accessible ballad in the band catalog. Take on the World is a sing-along anthem similar United of British Steel, while in turn, Evening Star as a party song that much more famous Living After Midnight anticipate a little by the successor, even if it seems somewhat ballad-like. The cover of The Green Manalishi and the final, maybe not quite as catchy Evil Fantasies add qualitatively as well to the rest of the album, only Rock Forever falls to me from something. As anachronistic bonus on the remastered edition there is next to a live version of Riding on the Wind still Fight for Your Live, that's good, but in his musical final as Rock Hard Ride Free of Defenders of the Faith still stands a good deal more.

What I still find in retrospect a bit of a shame is that the band has only adopted from Killing Machine times of such a long, sophisticated pieces such as Victim of Change or Beyond The Realms Of Death. Even a few more songs are on the plates of the eighties total sure that stand out from the rest, as is the case here. Still Killing Machine is a consistently good album that was recommended to younger people who want to serve up the keys 70-Priests, because it is especially much easier to digest by the sound of her than his predecessors.