JUDAS PRIEST Hero Hero RSD Vinyl 12" Embossed (1981)

Before the leather and studs became a costume, Judas Priest were just five blokes from Birmingham building something that would define heavy metal for the next fifty years. Hero Hero catches them early.

Originally released in 1981, this compilation pulls from the band's pre-CBS Gull Records era, the albums that don't always make the greatest hits packages but absolutely should. Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny are where the mythology starts, raw and hungry, before the production got big and the arenas got bigger. The RSD repress comes on embossed vinyl, which is not a gimmick here, it's a fitting format for a record this foundational to the heavy metal and classic rock canon. Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing. If you know, you know. If you don't, this is not a bad place to start.

Format: 12" compilation album, embossed vinyl, RSD 2022 repress of 1981 original. Country of origin: UK. Genre: heavy metal.

Fans of: Dio, Saxon, Accept, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Alcatrazz.