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Judas Priest Title TBC Epic Records ETA Autumn 2012 What they're saying: 2011 was a turbulent year for Judas Priest - indeed, it was a year which could have very easily ended their decades-long career. When the Epitaph World Tour was announced back in December 2010 , everything sounded a bit final. We've left their use of [...]

The Chosen Few makes for a nice treat, but hardly an essential one. This is just another in an increasingly long line of Judas Priest compilations, and there are more comprehensive and interesting Priest collections available. Judas Priest is one of heavy metal's foundational pillars. Releasing its debut in 1974, the band has spent the subsequent years churning out albums packed with unadulterated, visceral metal. While the artistic merit of some of that material is hotly debated -- nobody seems overly fond of Point of Entry or Turbo, and the years fronted by Tim 'Ripper' Owens aren't so [...]

Power metal to get you through the snowy wastes of winter.

The heaviness pretty much all started for me when I was a young teen, with the earliest Judas Priest that came out in the mid to late 70's. Now that I think about it, they could be one of the reasons why I don't put a lot of focus on vocals in some of my music these days. Since I grew up listening to everything Rob Halford, nearly every other singer pales in comparison anyway. I was...let's say, 'under the influence', when I heard a friend play "Victim of Changes", from their second album, Sad [...]

TV Shows - Full Episode Video - Reality TV Shows My heavy metal DVD shelf was once pretty bare, displaying only The Decline Of Western Civilization and a load of one-view concert films. But just since 2005, it's been sagging under the weight of classy, addictively watchable feature-length documentaries like Heavy Metal In Baghdad, Get [...]

As we approach the end of yet another year, we find ourselves looking back -- not just at the good (of which next week we'll be discussing plenty of, with the publication of the Thrash Hits Albums Of The Year lists), but the bad. Over the past twelve months, some of our favourite bands decided [...]

So it seems the Epitaph World Tour will not be the end of Judas Priest. According to lead-singer Rob Halford, the band has been generating material for a new album. In a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, Halford describes some of the ideas that have flowed into the creative process: Glenn (Tipton, guitar) and ...

I've always admired the metal culture. It's hard not to appreciate a subculture with an unflagging devotion to hedonism , a penchant for creative facial hair, and an embrace of the darker side of renaissance faire mythology. I'm particularly drawn in by its subversive nature. Who doesn't love seeing some guy at a bar donning a "Goat Whore" t-shirt? That's not to say I've always understood metal. While my admiration has only just begun to take shape, my relationship with metal runs deep. The fascination is essentially a reactionary one. I grew up in a Chicago suburb [...]

As I Lay Dying have released a new, P.R. Brown-directed video for their cover of Judas Priest's "Electric Eye," and while the special effects are undeniably cheesy, I still enjoyed the clip quite a bit. Why? 'Cause it takes place in a world where, following the breakdown of their van, a road-crew-free AILD opt to carry [...]

photos by Kurt Christiansen Judas Priest @ Izod Center "Pop "retirements" prove to be about as reliable as political promises. Witness the "just kidding, folks" resurrections of briefly absent stars Barbra Streisand, David Bowie and Cher. So fans might be forgiven for rolling their eyes over Judas Priest's announcement some months back that their current road show... would be their "final" one. "I wish we had a better word than final," says Priest [...]

Judas Priest brought the noise to St. Charles last night. Opener Black Label Society had skulls, DJ Lady Starlight had brown booze straight from the bottle and the fans came with rawk fists at ... Continue reading "Judas Priest at the Family Arena, 11/10/11: Photos" >

NONE MORE METAL With inspiration from Nigel, and with an assist from VH1, we've now got yet another excuse to party on the magical date of 11.11.11 -- "National Metal Day." Here at the... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

SoCal owl photographer, Ron Lyon, gives us the lowdown on his life during the awkward transition to adulthood.

ARTIST: Judas Priest - [Live] VENUE: Sleep Train Pavillion - Concord, CA - 10/27/11 DATE: 11-01-11 REVIEW BY: Raymond Ahner PHOTO: Raymond Ahner After almost forty years as one of the most influential Heavy Metal bands of all time, the mighty Judas Priest announced earlier this year that their "Epitaph" tour would be their last and, after witnessing the tour's stop at the Sleep Train Pavilion last week, I can honestly say that the band will be going out on the [view more]

We've been covering the morsels of information trickling in about a potential Black Sabbath reunion and it's safe to say that it's not a matter "if" but "when" this will happen. And then "when" could just be the Spring of 2012. Canadian metal mag Brave Words, Bloody Knuckles reports that they have heard rumbles that ...

In my first list, I discuss my favorite clean and harsh metal vocalists.

Judas Priest, Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy Allen Event Center Sunday, October 16, 2011 Better than: getting all decked out in studs and leather and going to Oak Lawn. ​ Back in the '80s, ... Continue reading "Last Night: Judas Priest, Black Label Society and Thin Lizzy at the Allen Event Center" >

Judas Priest Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion October 15, 2011 Saturday night, at 10:15 or so, a euphoric chill went up Aftermath's spine. Coupled with the cool weather, standing in the presence... Continue reading "Saturday Night: Judas Priest At The Woodlands" >

For over four decades, England's Judas Priest has been making one hell of a heavy metal racket. Formed in 1969, the band didn't find widespread success until the late '70s and early '80s. But c... Continue reading "Q & A: Rob Halford of Judas Priest Talks Coming Out and His Band Continuing On." >

The British metal group hit late night TV.