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Judas Priest: Lost Prophets

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), September 2008

IN AN AGE when youth learn their rock history from Guitar Hero, some music constants remain. Judas Priest, who helped transform the global metal scene with albums such as British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance during the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal era in the early ‘80s, still deliver a stage show filled with epic riffs, operatic vocals and an astounding number of leather outfits.

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