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Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978
THE LEAD SINGER sweats redly, tuffness of the strategic stud decorations unable to blind the look of uncertainty in his eye for the camera as ...
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Judas Priest: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 21 May 1977
KING RIFF rools okay? The two coachloads from Dundee said "Yeaah". The Cop crowd joined saying "okay". But the nice thing about being seen to ...
Judas Priest/No Dice: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 29 April 1978
JUDAS PRIEST had a captive audience, No Dice made a mark, and Gary Valentine just about escaped alive. Proving that heavy metal lives, good old-fashioned ...
Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, June 1978
I DISCOVERED A GREAT pastime the other day that you've gotta hear about. It's called headbanging. Not exactly what Suzy does in that cute li'l ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
"YOU ARE not in touch with the modern world, sucker," hissed the obnoxious little voice in my ear. 'Today's kids don't give a flying one ...
Judas Priest, Axis: Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 21 April 1979
Judas wants you for a sunbeam ...
Judas Priest: The Starwood, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 21 April 1979
THIRD NIGHT at the Starwood and they're still packing them in. Limbs flailing through the dry ice that fills the stand-up section in imaginary guitar ...
Judas Priest: Whips over Walsall
Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 26 May 1979
"SEE THIS badge?" asks Rob Halford. Smiling, he points to a narrow shiny, sausage-shaped piece of metal pinned to the left lapel of his leather ...
Judas Priest: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Ian Ravendale, Sounds, 2 June 1979
IT'S A CHARGE that most of 'em would dispute till the cows come home, but heavy metal fans and heavy metal bands are incredibly conservative. ...
Judas Priest: Unleashed In The East (CBS)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
WHAT IS this thing called Judas Priest? A heavy metal band? Who says? If this is really Judas Priest live they'd be hard pushed to ...
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 October 1979
WHILE THE PRESS has been busily lavishing attention on punk bands, a new wave of groups has been quietly – well, not exactly quietly – ...
Are You A Whore For Rock 'N' Roll?
Report by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 20 December 1979
ROSALIND RUSSELL thinks most of you are ...
Judas Priest: The Empire Strikes Back
Report and Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 5 July 1980
MARK COOPER encounters JUDAS PRIEST under a pile of volcanic ash of the third kind ...
Judas Priest: Hell-Bent For Eagle Scout-Hood?
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1981
I'M SITTING in the bar of the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in downtown St. Louis. It's — what? — about 2a.m. With me are Rob Halford ...
Judas Priest: Screaming For Vengeance ****
Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 3 July 1982
Vengeance is mine ...
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, July 1984
THE GUNPOINT CONFESSIONS ...
Judas Priest: Leathered, Studded Dudes Or…
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, September 1986
COWS ARE VERY useful except in India. There are varying degrees of cow-use – milk, cheese, burgers, cheeseburgers – but none so useful as the ...
Judas Priest: Heavy metal on trial
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1988
Judas Priest suicide suit takes 'subliminal message' tack ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, November 1990
HOT ON THE heels of their recent court victory (where Judas Priest were found not guilty of causing the deaths of two young men through ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990
He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, ...
Judas Priest: Touch the Hem of His Garment
Comment by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 1 January 1991
I TOUCHED Rob Halford's hem. It happened, if you must know, on a gray afternoon in a Marina Del Rey condo owned by the man ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
Overview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
STEFFAN CHIRAZI charts the history of all those supposedly Satanic bands — anyone out there remember VENOM and their 1982 classic Black Metal, or the ...
Eyewitness: Judas Priest on trial
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, March 1998
EVENT: The Trial of Judas Priest DATE: 23 Dec 1985 – 24 August 1990 LOCATION: Washoe County Courthouse, Reno, Nevada ...
Judas Priest: Pavelló Olímpic, Badalona
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, October 2004
Reunited — and it feels so good. Taking their cue from Peaches & Herb's '79 hit, Judas Priest get back together with singer Rob Halford ...
NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks
Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007
Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...
Judas Priest's Screaming Seer Rob Halford
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 20 August 2008
"I'M IN BUCHAREST, Romania, right now, about to leave for a festival gig," relays Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford. "We're in Turkey tomorrow – ...
Pastor of Puppets: Rob Halford
Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 11 February 2009
YOU ONLY HAVE TO open a style mag, left-field music publication or a broadsheet at the moment to see that heavy metal is enjoying one ...
Judas Priest's British Steel at 30
Comment by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 21 October 2010
BEATLES FANS will maybe find it hard to stomach that British Steel, the breakout album by metal heroes Judas Priest that just celebrated its 30th ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
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