56. Judas Priest Stained Class 1978
The meanest and darkest album ever put out by the band and certainly their most revered. A major influence on the NWOBHM and the complex playing by the band foreshadowed the technical metal scene of the 1980s and onwards. This is one of the dark jewels of 1970s and 1980s metal and the word compromise at this stage, still hadn't entered into the band's vocabulary like it soon would do.