Jugulator, he is near, attracted by the stench of fear, part demonic, and part machine, hungry and it's time to feed...
- "Winter Retreat" from Rocka Rolla is a very, very disturbing instrumental track.
- "The Ripper" from Sad Wings of Destiny, a song from the first-person view of Jack the Ripper, filled to the brim with Paranoia Fuel and a bridge that, at one point, has a guitar mimicking the screams of one of his victims.
- “Sad Wings Of Destiny” is not entirely a nightmarish album, but the artwork most certainly is. A simple image of an angel, burning in Hell, a look of pure agony on his face as he writhes in pain. The lone skull in the background makes it much worse, and the fact that it is not obvious he is burning, as much as it is implied with the flames in the background.
- "Night Crawler" from Painkiller is about a flesh-eating Monster terrorizing a small town and the unlucky family who ends up as his meal for the night. The lyrics are very tense and makes good use of many Horror Tropes.
- The opening title track from Jugulator. Firstly, the song itself is about a murderous mechanical monster. Secondly, the start of the song (and by proxy, the first thing you hear on the whole album) is a series of whirring and clinking mechanical sounds interspersed with very low guitars.
- "Brain Dead", also from Jugulator, is even worse. It starts with screeching tires, followed by the sounds of a car crash and ambulance sirens, which is fitting, considering it's about the horrors of total head-to-foot paralysis. It's comparable to Metallica's "One", only with the added message of Life Will Kill You, since the protagonist wasn't even in a war.
- "Electric Eye" from Screaming for Vengeance is basically distilled Paranoia Fuel. They're watching you. Always.
- Pretty much everything from Stained Class is ripe with this trope. A hauntingly bleak album forever tainted by an incident where two boys attempted to commit suicide because of claimed back-masking on "Better by You, Better Than Me". One of them succeeded while the other survived, with horrible injuries to boot.note Definitely a dark chapter in the history of Judas Priest.
- "Metal Gods" from British Steel is about a nightmarish future where machines have gained sentience and are in the process of enslaving all of humanity. The lyrics are creepy enough, but the last minute or so of the song really tops it off: it has no vocals, just the instruments and a deep, metallic thumping sound note - the sound of the machines marching in unison.
