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“I’m always ready for a kitty cat!” We gave Judas Priest legend Rob Halford a load of kittens to play with and asked him about heavy metal, becoming a gay icon and (sort of) being Dolly Parton's BFF

Rob Halford, a room full of kittens and a leather codpiece - what more could you ask for?

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“We were broke. We couldn’t even afford food or drink. That’s how bad things were”: how Judas Priest’s Sad Wings Of Destiny finally set them on the path to heavy metal immortality

Judas Priest’s landmark second album Sad Wings Of Destiny was released on this day in 1976

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Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival

Longtime Judas Priest player Glenn Tipton, who has Parkinson’s disease, has defied expectations that Power Trip would mark his last performance with the band

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K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton brought British steel to the world with Judas Priest – learn the secrets behind the metal gods’ seminal rhythm style

Fall to your knees and repent if you please, it’s time to dial it back to Priest’s glory days with a lesson that’ll whip your eighth and 16th-note rhythm playing into shape

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"No holograms, no troupes of dancers, just a giant light-up trident descending from the ceiling": Judas Priest keep it simple on a triumphant first night of the Invincible Shield tour

A show 160 years in the making: Judas Priest, Saxon and Uriah Heap take to the stage in Glasgow

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Rob Halford may look like Santa Claus in fetish gear, but his vocal is still the unrelenting, glass-breaking scream of a man 50 years younger, and Judas Priest's Invincible Shield is pristine and powerful

Judas Priest's late-career renaissance continues apace with thundering nineteenth album Invincible Shield

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"Fifty years on from their tentative first steps, Priest have produced what may well be the most defiantly, unrelentingly triumphant record of their career." New Judas Priest album Invincible Shield is nothing short of magnificent

Judas Priest prove yet again that little in this world is as timeless as pure, unadulterated heavy metal

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The riff is a belter, the lyrics arrived out of thin air at Ringo Starr's house, and the promo video for it is pure pantomime – the story behind Beavis and Butthead’s favourite Judas Priest song

"Everyone's had a confrontation with a copper and likes to scream about breaking the law, don't they?" - Rob Halford

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“This is one more shot at glory for me. I know the things I’ve been denied. I shouldn’t have to build it up all over again”: K.K. Downing on reclaiming his legacy with KK’s Priest – and what his one-off reunion with Judas Priest was really like

The original “Sinner” takes you behind the scenes of his dramas in and out of Priest and their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction – and why his turbo-charged new album is “about the fight and the victory”

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“Will I be borrowing the Harley? Nah, they’ve given me a moped!": Richie Faulkner's Elegant Weapons are the supergroup trad metal needs in 2023

How emergency heart surgery, COVID and a love for trad metal led to Richie Faulkner's Elegant Weapons, featuring members of Judas Priest, Rainbow and Pantera

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"I sounded like Clint Eastwood clutching a condom!" The story behind Judas Priest's Living After Midnight

How John Lennon – and Rob Halford complaining that his bandmates were making a racket – inspired a metal classic

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Richie Faulkner: ”Judas Priest came from a place of progressive blues. The seeds of metal were sewn through the blues – that's the true heritage of heavy metal”

Currently flexing his bluesier chops with metal supergroup Elegant Weapons, Faulkner reflects on how his recent heart surgery gave him a new lease on life, and why his forthcoming signature Gibson V will be ”the most metal-sounding guitar you've ever heard”

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