10 Metal Albums That Should Have Been Great (But Totally Weren't)
5. Judas Priest - Point Of Entry
Sandwiched between Judas Priest's two biggest albums, British Steel (1980) and Screaming for Vengeance (1982), 1981's Point of Entry is an often overlooked entry in the metal gods' canon of work.
Coming months after the smash hit that was British Steel (a result primarily of the success of "Breaking the Law" on the radio), Judas Priest decided to up the melodic accessibility of their music in order to get more of the same attention.
The end result is an album that flew too close to the sun and proved nowhere near as successful as its predecessor, while also wholeheartedly distancing itself from the more "dangerous" Priest that had reared its head on Sad Wings of Destiny (1976), Sin After Sin (1977) and Killing Machine (1978).
And after the 1982 release of Screaming for Vengeance (the best-selling Priest album ever at time of writing), Point of Entry very quickly got lost in the shuffle, becoming the unsavoury filling of a classic album sandwich.