“Sinner” by Judas Priest

"Sinner" comes off Sin After Sin, Judas Priest's third album and their first on a major label, released by Columbia on April 8, 1977, with CBS putting it out in Britain two weeks later. Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton wrote it, Halford sings it, and Tipton and Kenneth Downing lock their electric guitars together over Ian Hill's bass, a twin-guitar grinder built for maximum menace.

The man behind the kit is a hired gun: studio drummer Simon Phillips, brought in for the sessions in place of Alan Moore, and this is the only Priest album he plays on. Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover produced it with the band, and Mark Dodson engineered. The record pushed further down the road Sad Wings of Destiny had opened up, even if it never quite earned that album's reputation.

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