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“We were broke. We couldn’t even afford food or drink. That’s how bad things were”: how Judas Priest’s Sad Wings Of Destiny finally set them on the path to heavy metal immortality
By Malcolm Dome published
Judas Priest’s landmark second album Sad Wings Of Destiny was released on this day in 1976

Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival
By Matt Mills published
Longtime Judas Priest player Glenn Tipton, who has Parkinson’s disease, has defied expectations that Power Trip would mark his last performance with the band

Order your limited edition Judas Priest bundle – featuring an exclusive Invincible Shield T-shirt
By Eleanor Goodman published
There are only 300 available, so get yours now!

“Bob says: ‘Where you from?’ I say, ‘Birmingham’. He goes, ‘Birmingham? How’s Ozzy!’”: the unlikely time Rob Halford met Bob Dylan, the man who gave Judas Priest their name
By Classic Rock published
Rob Halford has only met Bob Dylan once, but he’s never forgotten the hilarious conversation that followed

Judas Priest have just scored their highest charting album ever with Invincible Sheield
By Classic Rock published
Judas Priest’s new album Invincible Shield has trounced British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Firepower in the UK charts

"No holograms, no troupes of dancers, just a giant light-up trident descending from the ceiling": Judas Priest keep it simple on a triumphant first night of the Invincible Shield tour
By Dave Everley published
A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow

Judas Priest’s Rob Halford unknowingly gatecrashed AC/DC’s compound at Power Trip festival: “I look around and there’s Brian, sitting on a couch having a cigarette.”
By Matt Mills published
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford learned there are some spots even a Metal God isn’t allowed in at last year’s Power Trip festival

Rob Halford may look like Santa Claus in fetish gear, but his vocal is still the unrelenting, glass-breaking scream of a man 50 years younger, and Judas Priest's Invincible Shield is pristine and powerful
By Philip Wilding published
Judas Priest's late-career renaissance continues apace with thundering nineteenth album Invincible Shield

"The world was on fire for 48 hours and then the world moved on." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford compares his coming out experience to Billie Eilish's
By Merlin Alderslade published
Rob Halford opens up on his famous MTV interview in 1998, and explains why it was a very different situation to Billie's widely-publicised coming out as bisexual last year

"Fifty years on from their tentative first steps, Priest have produced what may well be the most defiantly, unrelentingly triumphant record of their career." New Judas Priest album Invincible Shield is nothing short of magnificent
By Rich Hobson published
Judas Priest prove yet again that little in this world is as timeless as pure, unadulterated heavy metal
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