Judas Priest Hell Bent For Leather CD

Hell Bent For Leather is one of the most interesting albums in the Judas Priest catalog. It's more a blend of solid Hard Rock with a quasi-Metal vibe yet when it needs to rock it surely is able to do so. Cementing the bands look of leather and spikes, the record was originally called Killing Machine and was renamed Hell Bent For Leather in order to be released in the US. It was an album that drew a lot of press for the group and until the blockbuster British Steel would be the biggest converter of followers to the Judas Priest cause. Reviewing the albums tracks the listener will find a large number of slower, more trudging numbers ("Delivering The Goods", & "Take On The World" among them) which showed that being heavy was as much an attitude as a format of music. While the album also featured several commercially viable songs with "Evening Star" and "Rock Forever", the most enduring of the tracks would be the title track "HBFL" and the Peter Green cover "Green Manalishi With The T