“Everything blew up. ‘What do you mean you’re leaving?!’ ‘I’m not!’”: Rob Halford insists he didn’t quit Judas Priest in the 1990s

Rob Halford onstage with Judas Priest and throwing the ‘metal horns’ in 2005.

Judas Priest singer Rob Halford has revealed the circumstances surrounding his exit from the band in 1992.

Talking exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer, the self-anointed Metal God, who first joined Priest in 1973 and returned to the fold in 2003, insists that he “didn’t quit” the Birmingham heavy metal legends.