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Judas Priest "Screaming for Vengeance" 

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This album cover, designed by Canadian artist Doug Johnson, is an iconic piece of heavy metal artwork featuring a fierce, stylized metallic eagle known as the “Hellion". The artwork utilizes a polished, almost airbrushed technique to give the metallic surfaces a glossy, almost psychedelic feel.

The album was a landmark heavy metal album that broke the band into the American mainstream and defined the 80s metal sound. Driven by the hit "You've Got Another Thing Comin'," it achieved 2x platinum status, blending melodic rock with high-energy metal to solidify the band's iconic leather-and-studs image. 

 

Album cover for Screaming for Vengeance by Judas Priest. Artwork by Doug Johnson, Columbia Records, 1982.
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Album cover for Screaming for Vengeance by Judas Priest. Artwork by Doug Johnson, Columbia Records, 1982.