There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during a 50-plus year career. 

Their presence and influence remains at an all-time high as evidenced by 2018's Firepower being the highest-charting album of their career. GRAMMY Award wins and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame further cemented their place in music legend.

Originally formed in Birmingham in 1969, it was in the late 1970s that Priest delivered a quartet of albums – Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hell Bent for Leather and Unleashed in the East –separating them from the rest of the hard rock pack.

The albums spawned such metal anthems as Sinner, Diamonds and Rust, Hell Bent for Leather, and The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown). 

Priest were famously one of the first metal bands to exclusively wear leather and studs – a look that began during this era and would eventually be embraced by ‘metal heads’ throughout the world. 

The band did not let up in the 1980s and 1990s as they were second to none as far as pure metal goes, releasing such all-time classic albums as British Steel, Point of Entry, Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith.

 Fast forward to today – and with landmark albums and sell-out shows around the world – Priest continue to be both revered and celebrated in equal measure and most recently were nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY Award for Best Metal Performance. 

In 2022, band members Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, Ian Hill and Scott Travis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – appointed by legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper.  

Earlier this year saw the arrival of 19^th studio album, Invincible Shield, while Priest remain one of metal's top concert attractions, as evidenced by their current world tour which has sold out across the UK, Europe, North America and Japan.

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