Judas Priest will continue to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a fall 2022 U.S. tour. The "50 Heavy Metal Years Tour" will feature Queensryche as the opening act and is being fueled by the highest charting album of Priest’s career, "Firepower," which peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 in 2018. Additionally this year,... Continue Reading →
Judas Priest has announced the 2021 North American dates for its rescheduled "50 Heavy Metal Years Tour." Sabaton will join the trek as the opening act. Produced by Live Nation, the North American tour--which will run throughout September (kicking off Sept. 8 in Reading, Pennsylvania) and November (concluding Nov. 5 in Hamilton, Ontario), will feature a... Continue Reading →
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One of heavy metal’s all-time greats, Judas Priest will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year with a world tour coming to the US in the fall. The 50 Heavy Metal Years Tour will also feature Sabaton as openers and is being fueled by the highest charting album of Priest’s career ‘Firepower’ which peaked at... Continue Reading →
Judas Priest has announced North American tour dates for spring/summer 2019. Classic metal band Uriah Heep will be on board as support. Kicking off on May 3 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and wrapping up on June 29 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada,... Continue Reading →
The ninth annual edition of Welcome to Rockville will take place Friday, May 3, Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida, and will feature must-see headlining sets from Tool, Korn, Rob Zombie, Incubus, The Prodigy, Shinedown and Judas Priest. General admission and VIP tickets, as well as hotel and camping packages, for Welcome To Rockville go on sale at noon ET Friday, Dec. 7, at... Continue Reading →
Judas Priest's 18th studio album, "Firepower" (read Live Metal's review), released March 9, has debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart—its highest chart placement ever in the United States. “This is incredible news, that our band Judas Priest—of nearly 50 years standing, can stay popular and relevant enough to gain our highest first... Continue Reading →
LIVE PHOTOS: Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Star Riders ----- Review by Greg Maki ----- First, in 2011, guitarist K.K. Downing retired, and in response, Judas Priest didn’t just continue; the venerable metal act flourished with the addition of new axe-slinger Richie Faulkner. Then in early 2018, the band’s other longtime guitarist, Glenn Tipton, announced he... Continue Reading →
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Review by Greg Maki ----- Forty-nine years and 18 studio albums in, we all know what to expect from Judas Priest. Through nearly five decades, the band has never wavered, not even when the Metal God himself walked away in the 1990s. Priest’s commitment to metal is unparalleled—if anything, it’s only grown stronger over time.... Continue Reading →
