Judas Priest Interview
Harmonix’ Brett Milano Interviews Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton and Rob Halford.
In 1982, the members of Judas Priest hunkered down in two tropical settings—Ibiza, Spain and Orlando, Florida—and created a monolith: “Screaming for Vengeance” became the band’s most successful album and an all-time fan favorite; easily crossing the two sides of the band—the screaming doomsayers and the good-time hard rockers. It was the first full album to appear as Rock Band DLC, and your reactions told us we made the right choice.
Now on tour with four-fifths of the “Screaming” lineup, Judas Priest is still playing many of its tracks on tour. But the venerable metallists are also getting ambitious this year: Their latest release “Nostradamus” is nothing less than a two-CD rock opera, which they’re also featuring onstage. We caught up with two of the band’s prime movers, guitarist Glenn Tipton and lead singer Rob Halford, who proved to be good blokes with a lot of good memories. We even got Halford to reveal where he found those stage outfits he wore in the 80’s.