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Sin After Sin

Sin After Sin is the third album

Album

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by the British heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
group Judas Priest

Judas Priest

Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
, released in 1977. It was the band's first album released by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
after terminating their contract with Gull Records. (Consequently, Judas Priest lost all rights to Rocka Rolla
Rocka Rolla

Rocka Rolla is the debut album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1974. It was produced by Rodger Bain, who had made a name for himself as the producer of Black Sabbath first three albums....
and Sad Wings of Destiny
Sad Wings of Destiny

Sad Wings of Destiny is the second album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1976.The cover art for the album, titled "Fallen Angels," was illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe....
, and any other demo recordings made during the production of the two albums.) This album featured the drum work of a very young and upcoming session drummer, Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips is a prolific England jazz, Pop music and rock and roll drummer....
, who was only 19 at the time of recording.

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Sin After Sin is the third album

Album

Heavy metal music

Judas Priest

Columbia Records

Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips is a prolific England jazz, Pop music and rock and roll drummer....
, who was only 19 at the time of recording. The record features a cover of Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
's "Diamonds & Rust

Diamonds & Rust (song)

"Diamonds & Rust" is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village....
", a track that would become a live favourite from then onwards. The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added. One of the bonus tracks "Race With The Devil" was at first intended to take the place of "Diamonds & Rust" but their producer, Roger Glover

Roger Glover

Roger David Glover is a Wales/England bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and songwriter for Rock music Musical ensemble Deep Purple, and he is also well known for his work with Rainbow ....
(of Deep Purple

Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
fame), wanted them to switch to "Diamonds & Rust", saying that "It would fit along with the rest of the album better."

It is said that this album was supposed to be called "Island of Domination" after the song on "Sad Wings of Destiny" with a re-made version of "Island of Domination" as the title track, but they decided to call it "Sin After Sin" because of the popularity of the song "Sinner". The words "Sin After Sin" appear in the lyrics of a song featured on Sad Wings of Destiny
Sad Wings of Destiny

Sad Wings of Destiny is the second album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1976.The cover art for the album, titled "Fallen Angels," was illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe....
called Genocide: "Sin after sin, I have endured... Yet the wounds I bear, are the wounds of love".

On the Sin After Sin U.S. tour, they supported REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon

REO Speedwagon is an United States Rock music band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s....
.

In 1988, Slayer

Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
covered the song "Dissident Aggressor" on their critically acclaimed South of Heaven
South of Heaven

South of Heaven is the fourth studio album by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on July 5, 1988, the album was the band's second collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose production skills on Slayer's previous album Reign in Blood had helped the band's sound evolve....
album. Arch Enemy covered the song "Starbreaker", which was eventually released as a bonus track on the Wages of Sin
Wages of Sin

Wages of Sin is the fourth studio album by the Sweden melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. It is the first Arch Enemy album to feature the vocals of Angela Gossow....
album.

On the 2008 tour for the Nostradamus album, Judas Priest played a lot of songs which were never played live before, or songs which haven't been played for a long time. From this album, they played "Dissident Aggressor", which has never been performed live before, and "Sinner", a former mainstay of the live set but which hadn't been played since 1988.

This was the band's last album to feature the "gothic cursive font" logo (though it has since been reused on reissues/compilations of the band's early career).

Track listing

"Sinner
Sinner (Judas Priest song)

"Sinner" is the first song of the album Sin After Sin, by the classic Heavy metal music band Judas Priest.In the video Metal Works, the band members have made many commentaries about the recording of the song:...
" (Rob Halford
Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford is an England singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Halford has almost a four octave vocal range, from D2-B5....
, Glenn Tipton
Glenn Tipton

Glenn Raymond Tipton is one of the guitarists for the British heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Prior to joining Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band....
) – 6:45
"Diamonds & Rust
Diamonds & Rust (song)

"Diamonds & Rust" is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village....
" (Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
) – 3:28
"Starbreaker" (Halford, K.K. Downing, Tipton) – 4:53
"Last Rose of Summer" (Halford, Tipton) – 5:40
"Let us Prey/Call For The Priest" (Halford, Downing, Tipton) - 6:12
"Raw Deal" (Halford, Tipton) – 6:58
"Here Come the Tears" (Halford, Tipton) – 3:25
"Dissident Aggressor" (Halford, Downing, Tipton) – 3:07

2001 Bonus Tracks

"Race with the Devil" (Adrian Gurvitz
Adrian Gurvitz

Adrian Gurvitz is an English people singer, musician and songwriter....
) (The Gun
The Gun (band)

The Gun were a little-known 60s British people acid rock band who evolved into the 70s progressive hard rock trio Baker Gurvitz Army.The Gun began as The Knack, formed in 1963 by guitarist/vocalist Paul Gurvitz ...
cover)– 3:06
"Jawbreaker" (Live) (Halford, Downing, Tipton) – 4:02

Personnel

K.K. Downing: guitar
Guitar

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s
Rob Halford
Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford is an England singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Halford has almost a four octave vocal range, from D2-B5....
: vocals
Glenn Tipton
Glenn Tipton

Glenn Raymond Tipton is one of the guitarists for the British heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Prior to joining Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band....
: Guitars, piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
Ian Hill
Ian Hill

Ian Hill moving there in 1955 is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Heavy metal music band, Judas Priest.Hill learned how to play the double bass from his father, a bass player for local jazz acts....
: bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips

Simon Phillips is a prolific England jazz, Pop music and rock and roll drummer....
: drums
Drum kit

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