Love the wall of marshalls.

Pass.

That was the year I was born. Awesome.

You're gonna get raped.

Man. Good times. Cheap concert tickets, good bands, keg parties. And back then the police gave warning shots first.

BizarreRecords: If you substitute the southern accents for New England accents, that movie was my life at that time.

Everything (except the President) was better in the early 80's. Especially the music.

Priest is still one of the best heavy metal bands you can see live.

"BREAKIN' THE WHAT? BREAKIN' THE WHAT? LET'S BREAK THAT LAW!"

Nah, you can't tell he was gay at all in this video.

I picked up their new album 'Nostradamus' this morning. it's a bloody fantastic album. waaaaaaaaaaay better than their last album 'Angel of Retribution' and I liked that album as well.

Lumber Jack Off: I picked up their new album 'Nostradamus' this morning. it's a bloody fantastic album. waaaaaaaaaaay better than their last album 'Angel of Retribution' and I liked that album as well.

this is what I was looking for. thanks. you never know how it will end up when they go after a concept album.

I've always got a kick out of the way Halford talked on stage. every sentence turns all "questiony" at the end.

/real metal gods

New album is excellent good if you like old school awesomeness. Halford sounded a bit rusty on the first verse of the first song which made me a bit worried but the rest is great. Felt like high school again. I felt like throwing on a jean jacket with a Screaming For Vengeance backpatch, rolling a doobie and driving the Trans Am to the mall. \m/

Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:

Link (new window)

mediaho: I felt like throwing on a jean jacket with a Screaming For Vengeance backpatch, rolling a doobie and driving the Trans Am to the mall. \m/

Can you grow a mullet that fast?

\mm/ too much metal for one hand

How many ex-metal-heads minds are still in denial about Rob Halford
being gay?

CravenMorehead: Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:
Link (new window)

you are my favourite person today. thanks.

CravenMorehead: Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you.

This farking rules. I guess it is over to Best Buy after work to get it. They are my all time favorite band. The have rocked everytime I have seen them (Defenders Tour, Ram It Down, Ozzfest, Angel of Retribution) and really down to earth guys when I met them on the Angel of Retribution tour.

New Priest CD, Lakers vs Celtics in the NBA Finals, and the Braves suck. It is just like the 80's are happening all over again!

If you buy it at Best Buy, you get a free general admission ticket for the current tour.

DjangoStonereaver: How many ex-metal-heads minds are still in denial about Rob Halford being gay?

none who were real JP fans. nobody I know was surprised, or cared

I went to the Screamin' For Vengeance tour show at Long Beach Arena back in 82 or 83. To my teen mind at the time, it kicked ass. (Less impressed now)

I think they opened with The Hellion/Electic Eye. And of course, Halford rode his Harley on to the stage later.

How did we not know he was gay back then?

you know how I know he's gay?

jk, love the Priest. Saw Screaming For Vengeance tour, opened by Iron Maiden supporting Number of the Beast.

yah, it kicked unholy ass.

CravenMorehead: Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:

Link (new window)

thank you sir

Looks like the gay guy from Mad Max 2

Painkiller was my favorite album of theirs.
Gays are awesome.

It amazes me that all these shiatty 80's oldschool rock/metal posers and sell-outs somehow managed to become relevant again in this decade, let alone this century. From acts like Velvet Revolver to New Kids on the Block, the terrible music I thought we killed good and dead sucks now every bit as much as then, and yet here it is, resurrected and mysteriously healthy again. Not even very long after the 70's retro-band phase of 2001-2007.

Do we blame this on asshole business exec's capitalizing on the collective convergence of the poor, misguided aging Generation X'ers' mid-life crisisses, or what? What concerns me: We've already seen grunge bands making it back (STP), in five or so years do we see Pantera rip-offs and the return of Beavis and Butthead followed by college rock and rap-rock?

CravenMorehead: Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:

Link (new window)

that was me who posted it, but got rejected. If you buy the album from Bestbuy they have an offer for a free concert ticket at select venues

I'm liking Nostradamus more and more with each listen. Halford's friendship with Isahn is paying off, new Priest's album is farking EPIC. The strings really work.

/glares at Metallica

bonesdilligaf: CravenMorehead: Somebody posted this link but it didn't go green. You can listen to the entire new album:

thank you sir

seconded
/been listening 1/2 the day

xkillyourfacex: It amazes me that all these shiatty 80's oldschool rock/metal posers and sell-outs somehow managed to become relevant again in this decade, let alone this century. From acts like Velvet Revolver to New Kids on the Block, the terrible music I thought we killed good and dead sucks now every bit as much as then, and yet here it is, resurrected and mysteriously healthy again. Not even very long after the 70's retro-band phase of 2001-2007.

Do we blame this on asshole business exec's capitalizing on the collective convergence of the poor, misguided aging Generation X'ers' mid-life crisisses, or what? What concerns me: We've already seen grunge bands making it back (STP), in five or so years do we see Pantera rip-offs and the return of Beavis and Butthead followed by college rock and rap-rock?

Most of these guys are doing these tours and financing them THEMSELVES. No support from media or press. This music never went anywhere overseas. Here in the US, it disappeared from mainstream due to the Pop explosion and Grunge. It NEVER faltered in Europe, Japan or South America.

Live After Death:
Most of these guys are doing these tours and financing them THEMSELVES. No support from media or press. This music never went anywhere overseas. Here in the US, it disappeared from mainstream due to the Pop explosion and Grunge. It NEVER faltered in Europe, Japan or South America.


No Joke. When Sebastian Bach did a show at JAXX in Maryland, people flew in from tokyo to catch the show.

mekkab: Live After Death:
Most of these guys are doing these tours and financing them THEMSELVES. No support from media or press. This music never went anywhere overseas. Here in the US, it disappeared from mainstream due to the Pop explosion and Grunge. It NEVER faltered in Europe, Japan or South America.


No Joke. When Sebastian Bach did a show at JAXX in Maryland, people flew in from tokyo to catch the show.

This

Also their fans show out in droves for the concerts and actually BUY the CDs to support them. Sure soem on here joke about "county fair" shows but if they showed up and saw the massive crowds they would be amazed. Without mainstream media support to boot. Capitalism is what is behind the resurgance of 80's metal.

xkillyourfacex: It amazes me that all these shiatty 80's oldschool rock/metal posers and sell-outs somehow managed to become relevant again in this decade, let alone this century. From acts like Velvet Revolver to New Kids on the Block, the terrible music I thought we killed good and dead sucks now every bit as much as then, and yet here it is, resurrected and mysteriously healthy again. Not even very long after the 70's retro-band phase of 2001-2007.

Do we blame this on asshole business exec's capitalizing on the collective convergence of the poor, misguided aging Generation X'ers' mid-life crisisses, or what? What concerns me: We've already seen grunge bands making it back (STP), in five or so years do we see Pantera rip-offs and the return of Beavis and Butthead followed by college rock and rap-rock?

Oh mighty arbiter of taste, what crappy emo-punk bullshiat should we be listening to?

taglius: jk, love the Priest. Saw Screaming For Vengeance tour, opened by Iron Maiden supporting Number of the Beast.

That was you?!

Saw it as well, Hara Arena in Dayton Ohio.

I object to the quotation marks in your headline, "subby".

serialmouse

was there too (Hara Arena) I remember it as a 3 band bill w/ Def Leppard opening. Those shows at Hara Arena were amazing. That little arena felt like an oven by the start of the headliner.

I remember being at Hara for the Point of Entry tour. I work my way to the front row (no easy task) and the band comes out for an encore. Halford rides out on his Harley, and starts to perform fellatio on one of the bikes foot pedals. Me and my friend just looked at each other,not knowing if we would be cool or not screaming with the crowd after what we witnessed (and obviously the majority of the arena didn't). All in all, I remember being really stoned.

I got the box set with the vinyls and everything. So far it is farking awesome. Pure Judas Priest style classic metal. Real 80's era Dio/Maiden/Priest (of course) gothic sound to it. Money well spent.

They were sold out in the Judas Priest CD section of Best Buy, all versions, and they had to get me my copy from in back.

/ Doing my part to support great music!

They haven't written anything worth a shiat since "Hell Bent for Leather"

/Lawn... Off ... Now ...

xkillyourfacex: It amazes me that all these shiatty 80's oldschool rock/metal posers and sell-outs somehow managed to become relevant again in this decade, let alone this century. From acts like Velvet Revolver to New Kids on the Block, the terrible music I thought we killed good and dead sucks now every bit as much as then, and yet here it is, resurrected and mysteriously healthy again. Not even very long after the 70's retro-band phase of 2001-2007.

Do we blame this on asshole business exec's capitalizing on the collective convergence of the poor, misguided aging Generation X'ers' mid-life crisisses, or what? What concerns me: We've already seen grunge bands making it back (STP), in five or so years do we see Pantera rip-offs and the return of Beavis and Butthead followed by college rock and rap-rock?

Whats amazing is how most of you fail to realize the depth of suck music in this generation that allows bands to come back and have a second life. There are very few bands that are decent enough to even warrant buying their CD when it comes out now.

Can't believe JP is my first greenlight.

As for Nostradamus, ehhhh. . . boy that Screaming for Vengeance record was a real crackerjack, wunnit?

Scott the Twat: Can't believe JP is my first greenlight.

My first greenlight was a Judas Priest link too. I got it when they got back together a few years back.

Thank goodness they got better, or I would have no idea who you are talking about.

I actually picked up the entire 2 disc set from Amazon's MP3 store. Ten bucks, all 23 tracks(!)

Me, my iPod and car... but not my neighbors... are happy.

jwrebholz: Nah, you can't tell he was gay at all in this video.

was? did he get cured?

Holy crap!

I'm about 30 seconds beyond the intro, and I'm in love.

It's Priest, but with modern sound.

I've never been a giant Priest fan, but this already kicks ass.