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"Prog music, or heavy music in general, is a very conservative scene. When you are willing to expose yourself emotionally, it’s a vulnerable place to be." Devin Townsend tackles The Prog Interview

From his early days with Steve Vai to battling through mental health problems and explaining to Prog just why he prefers Beefheart over Zappa, there’s much to cover in this therapeutic discussion…

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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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“Bob says: ‘Where you from?’ I say, ‘Birmingham’. He goes, ‘Birmingham? How’s Ozzy!’”: the unlikely time Rob Halford met Bob Dylan, the man who gave Judas Priest their name

Rob Halford has only met Bob Dylan once, but he’s never forgotten the hilarious conversation that followed

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Judas Priest have just scored their highest charting album ever with Invincible Sheield

Judas Priest’s new album Invincible Shield has trounced British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Firepower in the UK charts

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“That was it for me, a rock god lead guitarist playing on it”: how Metallica’s Kirk Hammett helped a dance classic to come full circle

The Metallica man collaborated with techno duo Orbital for a song on the soundtrack to Spawn

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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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10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet)

From Metallica’s …And Justice For All to Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other, these masterpieces are so good that live crowds need to hear them in their entirety

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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Slaughter To Prevail, Accept and Knocked Loose are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Richie Faulkner isn’t sure if Judas Priest will make another album after Invincible Shield: “You never know what the future holds”

Judas Priest’s guitarist doesn’t rule out the idea of the band’s new, 19th album being their last

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"We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, The Pineapple Thief, Wayne Kramer, Scott Stapp, Bush, Green Day, The Stranglers and more

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"I may be naive, but what performer wants his audience dead?": Watch comedian Bill Hicks point out the absurdity of Judas Priest's subliminal message trial

In 1990 Judas Priest were taken to court over alleged subliminal messages, a year later comedian Bill Hicks pointed out the absurdity of the situation

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“Roger Glover got me into Jaco. I heard the stuff he was doing with Weather Report while Priest were at the same studio in the ’70s”: Judas Priest’s Ian Hill names 8 bassists who shaped his sound

A mainstay of chug-and-slug for over five decades, the veteran bassist reveals the surprisingly wide range of influences that feed into the metal gods’ low-end –

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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Judas Priest, Anette Olzon and Alcest are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Slayer to reunite to play Louder Than Life 2024 alongside Slipknot, Korn, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Disturbed, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch and many more

Slayer are officially back, and they are playing one of the biggest festival lineups of 2024!

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"Things have gone further than we envisaged, but that’s life": Saxon's Biff Byford on their new guitarist, extraterrestrial life and the future

As Saxon prepare to tour The UK with Judas Priest and Uriah Heep, we catch up with frontman Biff Byford to hear about new album Hell, Fire And Damnation

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The 11 most WTF collaborations in rock history

Bruce Dickinson and Mr Bean? Ozzy and Miss Piggy? Metallica and Ja Rule? Prepare to cringe at these heroically wrong-headed collaborations

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“I was worried about the album. Someone said it was more commercial. I thought, ‘Oh God, what‘s that supposed to mean?”: how Magnum made their masterpiece On A Storyteller’s Night and saved themselves from oblivion

Late Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin created one of the most beloved British rock records of the 1980s in the shape of On A Storyteller’s Night

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Judas Priest, Invent Animate and Chelsea Wolfe are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Judas Priest stream new single Crown Of Horns

The Metal Gods’ new, stompin’ song is the third single from the upcoming Invincible Shield

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The 10 best cover songs by thrash metal bands

Metallica, Slayer and Sepultura have all given classic songs a high-octane boot up the back side

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10 classic metal albums celebrating major anniversaries in 2024

From Judas Priest's seminal debut to nu metal and metalcore landmarks, these iconic records all changed the game

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“We’d love to be plugging PRS guitars into Mesa/Boogie amps, but for now it’s an old, worn-out Gibson Les Paul Studio”: Return to Dust’s brand of grunge metal has millions of views on TikTok. Now they face the challenges of entering the real world

For guitarist Matt Joseph, 2024 is about acquiring skills now they’ve secured festival billing alongside Slipknot, Judas Priest and Pantera. For 17-year-old bandmate Sebastian Gonzales, it’s about handling being away from his family

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