Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest

My personal favorite Judas Priest album. Most people have their album before this (Screaming for Vengeance) as their favorite, but I love this one. One of the few unabashedly "Heavy Metal" bands out there, Priest really wails on this disc, and still holds up for me almost 20 years later. The album also means a lot to me personally as I have a friend from high school who I haven't seen in well over 12 years who used to listen to this album with me a lot - we'd both do the air guitar thing to it. That aside, there's some great metal on here.

I did own a few of their albums before this on tape (Screaming for Vengeance, British Steel, & Sin After Sin), but never got 'em on CD.