Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

You have to remember, that you're retroactively applying what you know about Judas Priest decades later. Back then they were still not the world famous Judas Priest and metal monsters that they would become, they didn't even have a metal image. What they were doing in terms of diversity, was nothing out of the norm really for bands at that time. The decade uptil then had been dominated by prog rock bands and many a prog rock band had straddled the line between prog and heavy rock, and this equally worked in reverse for the heavy rock bands as well, so in retrospect what they were doing was nothing overly surprising back then.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.