Rock Landmarks

Judas Priest's sixth studio album has rightly earned its place as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time. It comfortably - perhaps too comfortably for some fans' tastes - sits between Priest's harder-edged heavy metal of the seventies with their far more commercial albums of the eighties. Sure, it is a world away from the likes of Killing Machine and it's not as pop-orientated as, say Defenders Of The Faith and certainly not Turbo, but it set the benchmark for the kind of metal that was to become popular in the decade of its birth. British Steel is quite simply, genre-defining. This fans hand-book, will tell you why. Foreword by Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal