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Stained Class: Music, Members & Art

Stained Class is the fourth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 10 February 1978 by Columbia Records. It is the first of three Judas Priest albums recorded with drummer Les Binks, as well as the first to feature the band's now well-known logo in the artwork. Musically, Stained Class is considered the album on which the band…

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Stained Class topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Members and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Stained Class. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
45
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
54
Extracted relationships
83
Concept neighborhoods
18
Bridge connections
54

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 16 topics
Recording · 10 topics
Critical reception · 6 topics
Lawsuit · 5 topics
Personnel · 4 topics
Cover Art · 2 topics
Musical Style · 2 topics
Release · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genre
Heavy metal
Label
Columbia
Length
43:40
Producers
Dennis Mackay, Judas Priest, James Guthrie
Recorded
October–November 1977
Released
10 February 1978 (1978-02-10)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Recording

Musical Style

Cover Art

Release

Critical reception

Lawsuit

Personnel

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Stained Class connects Entity context

The extracted context around Stained Class shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Stained Class → Beyond, CBS Records, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, David Bowie, Death, Dennis MacKay, Glenn Tipton, His, Ian Hill, Invader, Judas Priest, Les Binks, Newly, November, October, Oxfordshire, Realms, Rob Halford, Rocka Rolla, Supertramp Another extracted example is Stained Class → Belknap, Better, Burbank, California, December, It, James Vance, Judas Priest, Judas Priest's, Me, Painkiller Tour, Ray Belknap, September, Spooky Tooth, The, Three, Twelve, Vance, You Better. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Stained Class

Top relations

related to Recording · 21
Stained Class → Beyond, CBS Records, Chipping Norton Recording Studios, David Bowie, Death, Dennis MacKay, Glenn Tipton, His, Ian Hill, Invader, Judas Priest, Les Binks, Newly, November, October, Oxfordshire, Realms, Rob Halford, Rocka Rolla, Supertramp
related to Lawsuit · 19
Stained Class → Belknap, Better, Burbank, California, December, It, James Vance, Judas Priest, Judas Priest's, Me, Painkiller Tour, Ray Belknap, September, Spooky Tooth, The, Three, Twelve, Vance, You Better
related to Critical reception · 17
Stained Class → After, All Time, AllMusic, Gold, Greatest Metal Albums, Greatest Rock, In, Judas Priest, Judas Priest's, Metal Albums, Priest, Rock Hard, Rolling Stone's, Steve Huey, The, This, US
related to Release · 7
Stained Class → Billboard, February, Judas Priest, No, Sin After Sin, The, US
related to Musical Style · 6
Stained Class → British Heavy Metal, Exciter, Heavy Metal, New Wave, The, Thrash Metal
related to External links · 3
Stained Class → Accessed, Judas Priest Info Pages, July
Genre · 1
Stained Class → Heavy metal
Label · 1
Stained Class → Columbia
Length · 1
Stained Class → 43:40
Producers · 1
Stained Class → Dennis Mackay, Judas Priest, James Guthrie

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

album judas stained class priest metal band albums song first band's better heavy eventually time records greatest 1978 recorded exciter

Stained Class relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 83 structured relationships around Stained Class. Examples in this analysis include Stained Class → Genre → Heavy metal and Stained Class → Label → Columbia. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stained ClassGenreHeavy metal1.00infobox
Stained ClassLabelColumbia1.00infobox
Stained ClassLength43:401.00infobox
Stained ClassProducersDennis Mackay, Judas Priest, James Guthrie1.00infobox
Stained ClassRecordedOctober–November 19771.00infobox
Stained ClassReleased10 February 1978 (1978-02-10)1.00infobox
Stained ClassStudiosChipping Norton, Oxfordshire and Utopia, London1.00infobox
Stained Classis afourth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest0.90text
David Bowieinstance ofHis resume at the time consisted mainly of jazz fusion artists and more progressive rock artists0.80text
Supertrampinstance ofHis resume at the time consisted mainly of jazz fusion artists and more progressive rock artists0.80text
Stained Classrelated to Critical receptionSteve Huey0.60section
Stained Classrelated to Critical receptionAllMusic0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Stained Class bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Stained, Band and Priest. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Stained Class
    • Stained
    • Band
    • Priest
    • Better
    • Judas
    • Release
    • Released
    • Albums
    • James
    • Metal
    • Heavy
    • Album
  • stained class
    • Stained
    • Band
    • Priest
    • Better
    • Judas
    • Release
    • Released
    • Albums
    • James
    • Metal
    • Heavy
    • Album
  • heavy metal
    • Metal
    • Greatest
    • Exciter
    • Released
    • Thrash
    • Albums
    • Records
    • Time
    • Band
    • Stained
    • Judas
    • One
  • judas priest
    • Priest
    • Albums
    • Stained
    • Recorded
    • Well
    • Metal
    • First
    • Binks
    • Cover
    • Les
    • Previous
    • Released
  • speed metal
    • Greatest
    • Exciter
    • Thrash
    • Albums
    • Time
    • Band
    • Stained
    • Judas
    • One
    • Released
    • Priest
    • Records
  • thrash metal
    • Exciter
    • Greatest
    • Metal
    • Thrash
    • Albums
    • Time
    • Band
    • Stained
    • Judas
    • Many
    • One
    • Released
  • uk albums chart
    • Judas
    • Band's
    • Priest
    • First
    • Greatest
    • Metal
    • Time
    • Class
    • Stained
    • One
    • Two
    • Well
  • new wave of british heavy metal
    • Metal
    • Greatest
    • Exciter
    • Released
    • Thrash
    • Albums
    • Records
    • Time
    • Band
    • Stained
    • Judas
    • One

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Stained Class, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Stained Class with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Stained ClassOverview · splits 38 ⟂ 17
Stained ClassRecording · splits 44 ⟂ 11
Stained ClassCritical reception · splits 48 ⟂ 7
Stained ClassLawsuit · splits 49 ⟂ 6
Stained ClassPersonnel · splits 50 ⟂ 5
Stained ClassMusical Style · splits 52 ⟂ 3
Stained ClassCover Art · splits 52 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Stained Class

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples83
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Stained Class to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Members & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Stained Class · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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