Produced By: Tom Allom / Judas Priest / Chris Tsangarides & James Guthrie (
Engineered By: Tim Burrell
Assisted By: Jeffery Calvert, Dave Charles
Recorded: June 23rd - July 14, 1974
Recorded @: Olympic Studios, London, UK
Recorded: November - December 1975
Recorded @: Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales, UK
Mixed: July - August 1974
Mixed By: Rodger Bain
Mixed @: Trident and Island Studios, London, UK
Mixed: December 1975
Mixed By: Dave Ballotti
Mixed @: Morgan Studios, London, UK
Mastered By: Nick Webb
Mastered @: Trident and Island Studios, London, UK & Decca Record Co. Ltd., Pressing Plant. Surrey, UK.
Re-Mastered: Bob Fisher
Re-Mastered: The Mastering Lab
Artwork
Cover Idea: Judas Priest
Cover Illustration: Mark Wilkinson
Sleeve Design: Mainartery, London
Photographers:
Ray Palmer
Ross Halfin
Tony Mottram
Joe Giron
Anna Maria Di Santos
Geoffrey Thomas
Glen La Ferman
Artwork
The album cover by Mark Wilkinson (who had done the band's cover art from Ram It Down to Nostradamus) combines elements from the band's previous releases. In the foreground are the Hellion from Screaming for Vengeance and the Painkiller from its eponymous 1990 album. Under the Hellion's body is a razor blade, a reference to the album British Steel. The lower left shows the female hand holding a gear shift knob from Turbo and a mannequin wearing sunglasses and a studded leather headband representing Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather. The lower right corner features the door and columns from Sin After Sin, the metallic head from Stained Class enveloped in smoke, and the Metallian from Defenders of the Faith. At the end of the trail of flames in front of the Metallian is the shaft of light from Point of Entry. Additionally, one of the chimneys on the factory in the lower right corner is the band's familiar trident logo.
