“The world had gone mad. The PMRC were trying to use all these great songs for their own agenda, which in the long run counted for nothing”: The story of Judas Priest’s Defenders Of The Faith, the album that Tipper Gore couldn’t silence

Judas Priest posing for a photograph in leather and studs in 1984.

Judas Priest’s Screaming For Vengeance album turned them into one of the biggest metal bands of the early 80s, but 1984 follow-up Defenders Of The Faith didn’t scale the same heights. In 2015, Rob Halford looked back on a record that has only grown in stature over the decades.