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Stained Class is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of David Bowie and Supertramp. Those roots explain a lot about how Stained Class arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Love Gun, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around Stained Class, reaching back through David Bowie and forward to Celtic Frost. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Stained Class is the fourth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 10 February 1978 by Columbia Records. It is the first of three Judas Priest albums recorded with drummer Les Binks, as well as the first to feature the band's now well-known logo in the artwork. Musically, Stained Class is considered the album on which the band honed many of the elements of their hard-edged signature sound, dispensing with most of the progressive and blues rock overtones and softer ballads of previous efforts.
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Stained Class grew out of David Bowie and Supertramp, shares an orbit with Love Gun, went on to shape Celtic Frost and Hellhammer. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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