Song · Judas Priest
“Steeler” by Judas Priest
From the album British Steel (1980)
“Steeler” 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 #908 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,250 hard rock song of all time.
Judas Priest's "Steeler" comes from British Steel, the English heavy metal band's sixth album, which CBS released in April 1980. Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton and Kenneth Downing wrote it together, and Tom Allom produced with Louis Austin engineering.
It catches the band in lean, mean mode. British Steel picked up where Killing Machine left off, trading complexity for shorter, more direct songs and lyrics a shade less gloomy than their '70s work. Halford sings lead, Tipton and Downing play the electric guitars, Ian Hill the bass, and Dave Holland, making his first Priest album, the drums. The album has since come to be seen as the band's breakthrough and one of the first milestones 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 | 908 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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