Hell Bent For Leather is the title of the US version of Judas Priest's 1978 album "Killing Machine". Killing Machine was retitled Hell Bent For Leather for US release, as the US branch of Columbia/CBS did not like the "murderous implications" of the album title. Read more on Last.fm.
Judas Priest is an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band had struggled with indifferent record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when they rose to commercial success with the album British Steel. Read more on Last.fm
