the fuel of the furnace
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt.11: The 40th Anniversary of “Screaming For Vengeance”
Judas Priest’s classic “Screaming For Vengeance” celebrates 40th anniversary! Check out Steel Mill’s tribute to the album and its fast and furious title track from link below. 40 years after its release “Screaming For Vengeance” and the title track are still a rousing call to arms for metal heads around the world. The album is…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace Pt.11: The 40th Anniversary of “Screaming For Vengeance”
As 1981 morphed into 1982, Judas Priest arrived Ibiza Sound studios in Spain with both sun and pressure on their side, beginning to record their eighth studio LP. The reception to group’s latest album 1981’s “Point Of Entry” had been lukewarm, not everyone applauding its more commercial tunes and different approach. With new writing sessions…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 13: The 20th Anniversary of “Feed On Me”
The second album of Judas Priest’s Ripper Owens era, “Demolition” is not often mentioned in the annals of Judas Priest as one of their land mark efforts. That credit usually is reserved to any number of albums the band recorded between 1976 and 1990. Even their reunion CD “Angel Of Retribution” is in many metal…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 9: The 40th Anniversary of “Desert Plains” and “Point Of Entry”
If one sets out to find Judas Priest’s most controversial and debated album, “Point Of Entry” might be the first one on the list. 40 years on from its release, The Fuel Of The Furnace looks back to the record and its highlight, dramatic and powerful “Desert Plains”, with K.K.’s comments on the song included:…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 9: The 40th Anniversary of “Desert Plains”
If one sets out to find Judas Priest’s most controversial and debated album, “Point Of Entry” might be the first one on the list. Later on “Turbo” and “Jugulator” were certainly very much discussed but for entirely different reasons. “Point Of Entry” appeared in early 1981 during an era when traditional metal was more popular…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt.16: “Blood Red Skies” on “Ram It Down”
The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 16 takes us back over 30 years to 1988’s “Ram It Down” and its epic centerpiece “Blood Red Skies”. Check out in-depth article with K.K.’s comments included: http://kkdowning.net/steelmill/TheFueloftheFurnace/the-fuel-of-the-furnace-pt-16-blood-red-skies/
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 16: Blood Red Skies
[three_fourth] “You’ll never take me alive…” Origins THROUGH late 1980’s, a wind of change blew across the field of metal. And we are not talking about the Scorpions-hit which followed couple of years later. The era of hair metal bands was all but over. The sound which Judas Priest embraced and ran home so brilliantly…
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt.3: The 30th Anniversary of “One Shot At Glory” and “Painkiller”
The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 3 focuses on the 30th anniversary of Judas Priest‘s legendary “Painkiller” and its closing track “One Shot At Glory”. Check out in-depth article with K.K.‘s comments included: http://kkdowning.net/steelmill/The%20Fuel%20of%20the%20Furnace/one-shot-at-glory/
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 3: The 30th Anniversary of “One Shot At Glory”
“Painkiller” – possibly the fiercest and in its time one of the heaviest albums Judas Priest had ever released, is amazingly approaching its 17th anniversary later this year. Furthermore it was the album that introduced their current drummer Scott Travis formerly in US- speed rockers Racer X.
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The Fuel Of The Furnace pt. 4: The 40th Anniversary of “Steeler”
As the 1980’s dawned there was a rumble in the jungle as punk gave away to a new ferocious movement hailing from United Kingdom. New Wave Of British Heavy Metal stepped up to take the crown. Hundreds of bands had already made their stance at stardom and while most of them would not make it…