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June 24, 2009

The Return of "British Steel": Rob Halford Q&A

Judas Priest frontman on recording at Ringo's, opening for Zeppelin and the metalhead credo

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Angel Of Retribution

Good metal bands usually kick ass early on, then remain on a proven path until the albums stop selling or the band implodes. Judas Priest, born thirty-five years ago in the same Birmingham, England, factory shadows that sired Black Sabbath, have a much more complex history -- one that spans Seventie...

2005 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Metalogy

2004

Demolition

2001

Defenders Of The Faith

1983

British Steel

1980

Unleashed in the East

1979

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Judas Priest is the surviving elder prophet of the metal tribes. This English quintet didn't invent a single move, mind you, but its mid-'70s sound codified the previous five years or so of metallic developments, minus any significant blues content. The rigid, intense music was a key influence on the accelerating speed-metal hordes of the 1980s. Since then, Judas Priest has refined its attack with...

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