A lot of people are familiar with Priest from the 1980s onwards -- 1980 was the year they came out with Breaking The Law and Living After Midnight (with such lyrics as -- really! -- "my body's coming all night long"), and 1982 released You've Got Another Thing Coming.
Before Priest had solidified their metal image, in terms of both lyrics and clothing, they flirted with progressive metal, with theatrical metal (think Queen), and many other things.
Their first album, Rocka Rolla (which they are NOT proud of at all - largely because of the production) yielded the 7+minute long epic about reaching life's end, Run Of The Mill, which comes with an incredible build-up, and some of Halford's most impressive vocals ever.
Sad Wings of Destiny yields the proto-thrash metal song Tyrant - check out the lead harmony solo in the middle, which was a hint of what's to come.
Their third album, Sin After Sin has the impressive Simon Phillips on drums, and ends with the amazing thrash metal song Dissident Aggressor. This song may be Priest-metal incarnate (at least for me) - great vocals from Halford, impressively subtle and forceful drumming from Phillips (more on him in a later entry), a KK Downing noisy guitar solo... (OK, it lacks something that signifies other guitarist Glenn Tipton).
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