The codpiece confessions of Judas Priest

[KiwiCoromandel]

Judas Priest's members would rather play golf these days than strap on their leather gear - a fact that betrays their extraordinary story, says Grant Smithies.

Veteran British heavy metal band Judas Priest has a new album out, a sort of reunion affair with original singer Rob Halford. It's rubbish, of course, but the Judas Priest story itself is priceless.

It's a story of subliminal messages and sweaty leather, huge power chords and hot man-sex, golf slacks and gory goblins. It is a story of young working-class boys, raging with hormones and pent-up fury, bashing 16 shades of shit out of their instruments in grey old Birmingham in the early 70s, and continuing to do this even after they have become rich old men 35 years later......

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