Collection: Judas Priest Vinyl Records

Judas Priest are one of the foundations of heavy metal. From their Birmingham origins in the early 1970s through British Steel in 1980 and the Painkiller-era resurgence in 1990, the band's twin-guitar attack (KK Downing and Glenn Tipton) and Rob Halford's operatic vocal range effectively wrote the playbook for metal as a self-conscious genre.

The records benefit from vinyl playback partly because the rhythm guitar tones — particularly on the Tom Allom-produced run — were tracked with serious low-mid weight that compresses badly on streaming.