Around 1975 Judas Priest visited America for the first time with drummer Les Binks, who appeared on "Stained Class", an album that showed Priest at a high watermark in their powers.



"Killing Machine" yielded the first UK hit single, "Take On The World", and featured shorter, punchier, but still familiar, rock songs. The formidable "Unleashed In The East" was recorded on the 1979 Japanese tour, and in that year, Binks was replaced on drums by Dave Holland of Trapeze.