“It was so surreal. Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives? Are we responsible for that?”: Rob Halford recalls Judas Priest’s darkest days – on trial after two fans died in a suicide pact

Judas Priest.

Judas Priest singer Rob Halford says that the band had to fight for their lives when they were put on trial in 1990 following the deaths of two American fans in a suicide pact.

Speaking to MOJO magazine, Halford recalls how he and his bandmates experienced a sense of disbelief and then horror as their music was blamed for influencing two young men from Nevada, James Vance and Raymond Belknap, to turn a shotgun on themselves in 1985.