"Painkiller" will never not rock my god-damn soul. In my opinion one of the best metal albums of all time. "Screaming For Vengeance" is veeeery close behind though.

Painkiller is an undisputed classic no doubt, but I honestly really love Jugulator. I don't understand what everyone has against it. It has alot of energy and drive behind it, aggression, grit and power. Judas Priest pulled off the whole 90's metal thing really well with Jugulator and they could have taken the nu metal route and it would have sounded awful so I'm glad they stuck with the traditional heavy metal style and upped the ante. Jugulator burns like molten metal fire!

Great list! My #1 will always be "Painkiller". It's just such a crushing album from start to finish. And I agree with you that it's Rob's greatest vocal performance in the entire Priest catalog. He really stays in that high, operatic register for a solid portion of the album, and it's a thing of beauty. I'd have the most recent album "Firepower" right there at #2. It's that good! Maybe some day, I'll try to do a ranking of their full discography, but there are so many great albums, I have no clue how I'd accomplish it! "Jugulator" is a fantastic album, by the way. Rock on!

Point of Entry and Turbo are both underrated albums

Hey man. Great ranking, such a hard band to rank isn’t it? Lol. I think turbo is very underrated, love that album. My fav is defenders of the faith, love them all though.priest..live! Is actually my fav live record of all time, just everything about it, the sound, song selection, and it sounds “real”, not taken to a studio and redone before release. Great video man! Joe

Nice to see some love for Point of Entry

Still need to go through many other priest albums so I only have enough listening experience to do a top 5

1. Painkiller

good rankings! totally agree with you about British Steel-although I think it's important for them in that it shaped their style, paving the way for Screaming and Defenders. my only difference is that I put Sin After Sin at the top of my favs, followed by Sad Wings and Painkiller. but really until the much maligned TRO took over the vocals (the poor guy's only fault is he's not Rob Halford imo), Priest never made a bad album.

Defenders of the faith album my favorite

You’re in for a surpriiiise... haha, my ranking is even more controversial, but you spoke my exact thoughts on many of your picks and I’ll elaborate on that after my ranking:

Top 10:

Top 5

a song i like is before the dawn.

I would put Nostradamas at the end, a few ok songs, the title track is not bad. Painkiller at number 1 just because I like the heaviness of it. Turbo would be fairly high for me. Firepower top 5. Maybe defenders of the faith over screaming for vengeance. Love bites and eat me alive are killer songs.

Wait when is the SR 71 video

My personal ranking:

18. Demolition

For me it's:

I need time for my ranking but other than 5 albums from bad to ok Ithe other albums are pretty strong and difficult to rank