Judas Priest-Painkiller (1990)

"Painkiller" is one of the most memorable heavy metal albums ever recorded, a powerful record created by gods of the genre like Judas Priest. With this, their twelfth album, the British group reached the next level within their classic heavy metal style, featuring the blistering and lightning-fast guitar riffs of KK Downing and Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford's anguished and aggressive screams, Ian Hill's heavy and driving bass, and the prodigious, hyperactive double bass drumming of the newly added Scott Travis. Composed of ten tracks, the entire album is incredibly solid, dizzying, powerful, rhythmic, and tremendously catchy. Tracks like "One Shot At Glory", "Night Crawler", "A Touch Of Evil", "Painkiller", "Metal Meltdown", "Hell Patrol", "Battle Hymn" or "Leather Rebel" make up one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums worldwide, also representing a milestone in heavy metal, mainly due to the wide influence and impact it had on many subsequent bands.