Ageing rockers’ chances of Living After Midnight have been dramatically increased – not because anyone has devised an age-specific course of debauchery, but because Judas Priest have released their own brand of coffee.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of their landmark album British Steel, the Birmingham metal gods have teamed up with Dark Matter Coffee in Chicago to produce “the ultimate hesher coffee”. British Steel coffee will be available online, and from Dark Matter’s three Chicago shops.
You’ll need a grinder, too, because the coffee is being sold as a whole bean (you can get it pre-ground if you specify when ordering). But that’s OK, because orders of the coffee will come with a free Grinder – or, rather, a cassette single featuring the Priest song of the same name.
British Steel, from April 1980, is considered one of the classics of metal, eventually going platinum in the US. It contained three hit singles – Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law and United.
Priest’s lead singer, Rob Halford, has his solo work compiled next month by Sony. The Essential Rob Halford also contains music from his projectes 2wo and Fight.
Earlier this month Halford uncovered a novel he had written in the 1970s. “It’s very childlike, but I’m just pleased that I was able to find it. I don’t know if anything will come of it. I am just relieved that having thought it was completely lost, I now have it,” he told Classic Rock Revisited.
“It’s a pretty cool story. It’s about this evil kind of guy who steals people’s emotions by capturing their tears. He has this library and instead of books he has these little glass vials of humanity. He has a room full of these things and it is called The Library of Tears. I’ve now discovered it, and who knows what will happen to it. I am not sure.”
