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| 0.0 | mandan | December 16th 13 |
Hell Bent For Leather/Killing Machine was the beginning of a new era for Judas Priest. It's an album which somewhat bridges the band's purer metal era and their commercial metal era, but is definitely the first of the latter rather than the last of the former.rThe great songs on here are "Hell Bent for Leather", "Rock Forever" the opener ("Delivering the Goods"), and the Fleetwood Mac cover ("The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown").rHowever, this album has flaws which prevent it from reaching the heights of their best albums: 3 weak songs, rather lacking production, and, most of all, restraint on the part of the band members. Binks must've been very unhappy with this record, seeing as he left soon after (his performance here is miles away from that on Stained Class). All in all, a good album, but proceed with caution.rPersonal rating: 3.9
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| 4.0 excellent | Fernando Alves STAFF | December 27th 11 |
Even if it misses the consistency of the previous effort Killing Machine still a great album. Delivering the Goods, Hell Bent for Leather, Running Wild, Before the Dawn and specially The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown) are absolute classic anthems.
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| 3.0 good | extranoisy65 | October 10th 11 |
There was some really great stuff on here, and some total garbage on here. I suggest you just download the tracks "Delivering the Goods", "Rock Forever", "Hell Bent for Leather", "Burnin' Up" and "The Green Manalishi". The rest aren't really worth it, and take a lot away from the album experience as a whole.
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| 3.0 good | Xenorazr | November 14th 09 |
While not nearly as good as its predecessors, Hell Bent For Leather does have some solid material that has helped define the Priest's sound and image.
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| 3.5 great | Gary STAFF | April 4th 24 |
So Judas Priest has learned a thing or two from Blue Öyster Cult, and it shows -- and it's a good thing!!!
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| 4.0 excellent | Elmo | January 13th 22 |
gud ablum
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| 2.0 poor | BUDDHA IS METAL | October 4th 21 |
a regression from stained class to straight up rock n roll, starts a lot better than finishes
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| 0.0 | Mark Erikson | July 5th 20 |
This is where Priest starts to lose me. Overall a rather boring record, with a couple decent moments thrown into the mix.
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| 2.5 average | Arokan | June 14th 18 |
On Killing Machine Priest started to go into more main-stream hard rock direction and it didn't serve them all that well. Apart from few great tracks we get load of anthemic simplistic 80's rockers that aren't particularly enjoyable or memorable. Still the execution is pretty good and Halford changing his singing style to fit the music is an interesting change.
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| 4.0 excellent | Resident Metalhead Piranha | July 5th 17 |
The NWOBHM was emerging, and Killing Machine was a transitional album for the group and the movement itself. "Deliver The Goods" has a bluesy, hard rock style which blankets much of the material here, and they pull it off pretty well in spades. "Rock Forever" continues the trend with a playful rhythm and a familiar vocal performance. Both t/t's ("Hell Bent For Leather" and "Killing Machine") employ some funk with metallic riffs and creative drumming. "Burnin' Up" is a personal favorite with its thick grooves and funk drumming, and "Running Wild" and "Evil Fantasies" are vocally driven with the former bearing the most resemblance to their more metallic offerings. The ballads are trite, and "Take on The World" is a flop of a song, but Killing Machine displays well crafted deviations from their older material. It's a stepdown from their magnum opus Stained Class, but there's some outstanding material here and is a solid album from the metal legends.
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| 4.0 excellent | BRAman22 | March 2nd 17 |
Killing Machine sees Priest pivoting to more of a chorus focused band than before. It works quite well, as shown by the sing along hook in Take on the World. It still has great musicianship though, shown through in Hell Bent for Leather, one of my favorite all time Priest songs.
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| 4.0 excellent | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | October 7th 15 |
Slipping a bit with a disappointing final track (that is at least preceded by a great ballad) and a generally lower level of consistency than their previous works, Killing Machine is still a 70s Priest record, and is thus still pretty good. It does have Hell Bent For Leather and Running Wild, after all! Take on the World is pretty good for a blatant attempt at an arena rock anthem, too.
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| 1.5 very poor | tylerdurdenpt | December 6th 11 |
This album is a bit lame, one of JP's worst. "Running Wild" is the only good track, then there's a couple of average tracks, and all the rest is terrible.
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