“I’d have been in the corner with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a mound of coke. I was out of my tree. I needed help”: How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album

Judas Priest posing for a photograph in 1986.

Thanks to albums such as British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance, Judas Priest had ascended to metal’s premier division by the mid-80s. But they hit a bump in the road with 1986’s Turbo, an album that saw the veteran band trying out new technology but left many fans cold . In 2017, singer Rob Halford and bassist Ian Hill looked back on the darkness and tragedy that shaped their most divisive record.