For Judas Priest – and indeed heavy metal as a genre ... Priest themselves would embrace several years later with the Painkiller album began to take a firm hold. One era was coming to ...

Rob Halford almost died at his final gig as Judas Priest vocalist on August 19, 1991 – and not because the other four members gave him a severe kicking when they’d learned of his decision to quit ...

Judas Priest is one of heavy metal’s most important ... back with one of their best and fiercest albums in 1990’s ‘Painkiller.’ The group appeared poised to flourish throughout the ...

I mean, I’d love a Priest comic where Painkiller appears or The Sentinel is grimly correcting wrongs indefinitely but a concept album would be cool as well. If you’re a Judas Priest fan or ...

Before anyone started calling it heavy metal, Judas Priest were hammering out the music's template. Formed in Birmingham, England, at the tail end of the '60s, the band's core trio -- singer Rob ...