Judas Priest Reunites with Halford

Judas Priest Reunites with Halford
Sun July 13, 2003 07:54 AM ET
By Barry A. Jeckell
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Judas Priest will reteam with estranged lead singer Rob Halford for a new album and tour in 2004, marking the veteran British heavy metal band's 30th anniversary.

It's been more than a dozen years since Halford performed with longtime guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing and bassist Ian Hill, as well as drummer Scott Travis, who joined the band in 1990.

"We all agreed that we feel the time is right," Tipton told Billboard.com. "Everything just seems to have locked into place, and we just felt like we wanted to do it now, and maybe if we don't do it now, we never will."

The last Judas Priest album with Halford fronting the band was 1990's "Painkiller" (Columbia). After leaving the fold, he formed the thrash band Fight, which released three albums through Epic. Halford followed with the industrial-leaning act Two, which issued one album through Trent Reznor's nothing label, and then the short-lived metal quintet Halford.

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but ONLY if they go back to their roots. don't get sucked into the garbage that passes for Metal (radio-metal that is) and i'll be back.

was a Priest FREAK when i was a teenager. posters all over the walls, saw them maybe a dozen times live.

Halford ROCKS!

:bounce:

My friends and I used to strap a "boombox" to the back of one of our bikes and ride around town forcing everyone else to listen to "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and "Somewhere in Time" :evilgrin:

I think this goes to show that the financial management industry never paid much attention to the rock-star industry :7

Around that same time if you were a priest fan you would have been popping Turbo into the Boombox, a positively awful album employing guitar synths and which saw the band all glammed out.

and stupid.

But I'll decline to edit and let everyone laugh.

By then, I put on all appearances that I was so over metal and into punk and indie rock. Even though I was secretly still keeping up with the metal scene that I had grown up with. Although Priests Turbo album was a final nail in the coffin for me and I realized it was time to definitely leave it all behind.

Unleashed in the East (Live) and British Steel however, now THOSE were Priest classics!

Defenders of the Faith had some good songs on it but definitely started showing the signs of a downfall.

But British Steel was their pinnacle, even if some of the songs at this point are beyond parody due to things like overplaying on classic rock stations, and the inevitable Beavis and Buttheadism of songs like "Breakin The Law".

to watch, these old broke farts out there trying to make back some bucks to pay off all their debts after spending their millions.