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Rob Halford Hammering Away on Well-Tempered Metal

With screaming twin lead guitars, jackhammer rhythm, songs glorifying reckless badassedness and a four-octave-range frontman clad in more leather than Ron Burgundy’s book collection, Judas Priest have been objects of profane idolatry for nearly four decades.
YES! Weekly  |  Ryan Snyder  |  11-28-2011  |  Profiles & Interviews

Judas Priest Finds No Rust on 'British Steel'new

The band's 1980 release British Steel has legs. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the English heavy metal five-piece play it in its entirety on their current tour.
NOW Magazine  |  Carla Gillis  |  07-13-2009  |  Profiles & Interviews

School of Hard Rocknew

Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen take an anthropological look at the people who live and die for heaviosity in their new documentary.
Montreal Mirror  |  Sarah Rowland  |  10-07-2005  |  Profiles & Interviews

Metal Has a Big Headnew

A cable show that worshipped the metal gods even when grunge chased them off the big stage is now being shunned by those same bands.
East Bay Express  |  Chris Thompson  |  07-18-2005  |  Music

The Thing That Should Not Benew

Metal gods Judas Priest return on the wings of an "Angel."
Orlando Weekly  |  Jason Ferguson  |  03-09-2005  |  Reviews

Defenders of the Faithnew

The music Judas Priest made was easily marginalized, and at a remove of several decades, most of the material on their "Metalogy" boxed-set sounds ephemeral.
Boston Phoenix  |  Carly Carioli  |  07-08-2004  |  Reviews

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