Turbo (Judas Priest album)

Turbo
Cover art by Doug Johnson
Studio album by
Judas Priest
Released7 April 1986
StudioCompass Point, Nassau, Bahamas Record Plant, Los Angeles
Genre
Length40:58
LabelColumbia
ProducerTom Allom
Judas Priest chronology
Defenders of the Faith
(1984) 		Turbo
(1986) 		Priest...Live!
(1987)
Singles from Turbo
  1. "Turbo Lover"
    Released: 7 April 1986[2]
  2. "Locked In"
    Released: 19 May 1986[3]
  3. "Parental Guidance"
    Released: 7 August 1986[4]

Turbo is the tenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in the UK on 7 April 1986 by Columbia Records.[5] The album is notable for the band's change to a commercial glam metal sound,[6][7][8] that had them using synthesizers for the first time.[9]

A remastered CD was released in 2001, including two bonus tracks. On 3 February 2017, the album was reissued as Turbo 30 for its 30th anniversary, including two CDs of a live performance at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, on 22 May 1986.[10]

  1. ^ "Judas Priest Metal Gods | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 21 June 2021. The band's tenth album Turbo is the first all-digitally recorded heavy metal record.
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 39.
  3. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 8.
  4. ^ "FMQB" (PDF). p. 42.
  5. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 38.
  6. ^ "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  7. ^ "The 10 best Judas Priest albums – ranked". Kerrang!. 4 January 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  8. ^ McPadden 9/16/2015, Mike. "10 Hard Rock + Heavy Metal Artists That Went Glam for One Album". VH1 News. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Allmusic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Judas Priest to Release Remastered 30th Anniversary Edition of 'Turbo'". Loudwire. Archived from the original on 17 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.