:::Now I'm confused? When did Judas Priest release four albums of complete speed metal. Where are these albums and where can I download them? I know they have a speed metal song on Stained Class. Whoop, there's another speed metal song on Screaming for Vengeance. Another on Defenders of the Faith. They take a break and then pop one onto Ram it Down and a couple on Painkiller. Maybe one or 2 more since. That's a pretty sporadic output of speed metal songs from a band with a catalog as extensive as theirs. Not sure where hard rock is dead obvious on their 70s and 80s work either? They were a heavy metal band originating in the second wave of heavy metal bands. A few songs on Rocka Rolla are not quite as heavy metal as the output from their heavy metal contemporaries of the day like Thin Lizzy, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep, Scorpions, UFO or Rush. But they're still heavy metal. Are you sure you understand the difference between the musical styles? You seem to have a few mixed up. Judas Priest are a heavy metal band. Led Zeppelin might have invented it. But it was Judas Priest who "stereotyped" it. And without ever being a power metal band themselves they are the mold on which the entire European power metal movement has cloned and copycatted itself on. Not too many bands can claim that.