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Judas Priest may have a lot of mileage on them, but frontman Rob Halford says that the addition of guitarist Richie Faulkner to the lineup has rolled back the odometer a bit. The group had openly discussed their 'Epitaph' shows being their final world tour, but the frontman says that may not exactly be the case...

Decades ago, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing was at the forefront of the metal movement in England and even though he's retired from music, he wants to ensure the success of the next generation of metal rockers from his homeland...

Is a live album really ever live? Most are manipulated in some way, either in the mixing stage or the overdubbing of guitar leads or vocal passages. The greatest of them all, KISS seminal Alive!, comes with legendarily conflicting reports of how much it was doctored. But who cares? It rocks harder than any other album in existence, KISS or otherwise.

In a new interview with the Birmingham Post, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing recalls purchasing his mansion, a 19th century home at Astbury Hall in Shropshire, England, which he picked up back in 1985. He dismissed reports that he left Priest in 2011 after nearly 40 years of service in the band so he could focus on running the golf courses installed on his property...

With the exception of Black Sabbath, early heavy metal was built upon a foundation of two-guitar bands. Whether it was the sturdy rhythm/lead axis of Scorpions' Rudolf Schenker and Uli Jon Roth or Judas Priest's legendary K.K. Downing and Glen Tipton team, metal with two guitars is usually twice is good as metal with just one...

A few days ago, Noisecreep had the pleasure of talking with Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford. We were on the phone with the Metal God discussing the upcoming 30th anniversary of their landmark Screaming for Vengeance album. Featuring future heavy metal anthems such as "Electric Eye" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin,'" the album broke Judas Priest into the American mainstrea

Judas Priest will drop a 30th anniversary edition of their eighth album, the 1982-released Screaming for Vengeance, on Sept. 4. It will include the re-mastered original plus bonus tracks and a live DVD from the 1983 U.S. Festival show filmed on May 29, 1983, in San Bernardino, California...

In the second installment of his 'Mean Deviation' column, veteran music journalist Jeff Wagner takes a deep look at the infamous "sophomore slump." Check out the piece as he runs through several metal and hard rock subgenres and examines whether some of our favorite artists' stumbled on their sophomore albums or not...

Most of the general public came to know James Durbin as the "metal guy" on 2011's season of 'American Idol.' The 23-year-old Santa Cruz, Calif. native was one of the show's most popular finalists, showing off his expansive vocal range on songs by the likes of Aerosmith, Sammy Hagar and Queen...

"I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything" -- Eddie Vedder, accepting a Grammy for Pearl Jam's 'Spin the Black Circle,' 1996 I tend to take the Pearl Jam Attitude toward the Grammys, but it's still fun to sit back and watch people who know nothing about metal try and hand out awards for "Best Performance" every year...