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Priest's fourth album helped lay the foundation for '80s metal.

Metallica’s shredmaster general recommends these lesser-known gems.

The heavy-metal singer, now 70, talks about ‘subliminal messaging’ and why even arteries rupturing on stage can’t bring his band down

Judas Priest Wondered If They Were Guilty of Subliminal Messaging Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill recalled how their 1990 trial over alleged subliminal messaging had put the band in doubt over its own innocence. The metal icons were summoned to court in the aftermath of a tragic shooting five years earlier. Two men, 18-year-old Raymond Belknap and 20-year-old James Vance, had shot themselves after a night of drinks, drugs and music, with Belknap dying on the scene and Vance passing three months later. The parents filed a lawsuit, claiming that voices recorded backward in the Priest song “Bet...

Michael Hann , January 25th, 2021 10:00 KK Downing and Rob Halford, plus producer Tom Allom and Mantas from Venom talk to Michael Hann about Judas Priest being the first (metal) gang in town and their five decade history Judas Priest today: fifty not out It’s perhaps hard to comprehend at this distance, but Judas Priest might just be the most important band in the history of heavy metal. These days, they appear as old reliables – Rob Halford is, in his own words, “the stately homo of heavy metal” as much as the Metal God these days; they’re good for a headline slot at Bloodstock and...