Song · Judas Priest
“Grinder” by Judas Priest
From the album British Steel (1980)
“Grinder” by Judas Priest appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1980 on the album British Steel. Its best result is #561 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,625 hard rock song of all time.
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"Grinder" is one of the album tracks on British Steel, the sixth Judas Priest album, released in April 1980, rather than one of its three singles. Rob Halford wrote it with guitarists Kenneth Downing and Glenn Tipton and sings it, Ian Hill plays bass, and Dave Holland, making his first album with the band, is on drums. Tom Allom produced and Louis Austin engineered.
British Steel pushed on from Killing Machine toward a leaner, more commercial sound, trading long, knotty songs for short, direct ones and easing off the gloom of the band's '70s records. It has since come to be seen as the band's breakthrough and one of the first landmarks of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 561 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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