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Judas Priest: Killing Machine

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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Michael Hann: Denim and Leather — The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (Constable)

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", ...

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 – ...

Judas Priest: Killing Machine

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: 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 ...

Judas Priest in Santa Monica

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 – ...

Judas Priest: Pain Killer

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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: 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'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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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: 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 ...

Judas Priest: Heavy metal on trial

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1988

Judas Priest suicide suit takes 'subliminal message' tack ...

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: Screaming For Vengeance ****

Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 3 July 1982

Vengeance is mine ...

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 ...

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: Lost Prophets

Interview by 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 ...

Dancin' With The Devil

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 ...

Metallica: Taking the Mick

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, ...

Cod Piece In Our Time

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 ...

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/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 ...

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 Eaten Alive!

Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, July 1984

THE GUNPOINT CONFESSIONS ...

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