"We have lived and breathed metal for over five decades, and finally we are summoning our congregation to officially witness our lives uncensored, in a never-before-seen way”: A Judas Priest documentary is in the works

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There’s a Judas Priest documentary in production that will provide the whole nine yards on the metal icons’ fascinating five decades-plus career.

It’s another of those projects that you can’t believe hasn’t already happened. After all, there’s more than enough interesting material. Priest formed long before their NWOBHM peers, way back in 1969 and have ridden out crises that would have broken lesser bands. The most notable of these was the ‘subliminal messages’ trial of the mid 1980s. Ludicrously, parents of US kids that had committed suicide sued Judas Priest claiming that the band had inserted messages in their music telling listeners ‘try suicide’ and ‘let’s be dead’.