Song · Judas Priest
“Take These Chains” by Judas Priest
From the album Screaming for Vengeance (1982)
“Take These Chains” by Judas Priest appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1982 on the album Screaming for Vengeance. Its best result is #854 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,144 hard rock song of all time.
"Take These Chains" comes off Screaming for Vengeance, the eighth studio album by the English heavy metal outfit Judas Priest, out on Columbia in 1982, and it's a song the band didn't write: Bob Halligan Jr. supplied both the words and the music. The Priest make it their own anyway, with Rob Halford out front, Kenneth Downing and Glenn Tipton on electric guitars, Ian Hill on bass and Dave Holland on drums.
Tom Allom produced and Louis Austin engineered. The album around it kept the tighter, more commercial approach of Point of Entry and British Steel while hauling back some of the heaviness, and it was the one that broke them commercially in North America.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 854 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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