It's impossible to overstate Judas Priest's importance to the evolution of metal. The band formed about a year after Black Sabbath and by the late-Seventies, they'd given the genre a makeover with a twin-guitar assault, faster tempos and a black-leather look that would forever change the way metalheads
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