Metal Hammer UK

JUDAS PRIEST

COLUMBIA UK

AT ITS HEART, Judas Priest’s story has always been one of triumph. Black Sabbath may have invoked the spirit of heavy metal with an air of post-war gloom, but it was Priest that gave the genre a spine. Rob Halford’s defiant utterances that ‘United we never shall fall’ and ‘You think I’ll let it go you’re mad… you’ve got another thing comin’’ became the calls to arms for every beaten-down underdog to rise up and seize success on their own terms. And goddamn if they haven’t done it again on Invincible Shield.

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