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“I’d have been in the corner with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a mound of coke. I was out of my tree. I needed help”: How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album

1986’s Turbo remains the most underrated album Judas Priest’s catalogue

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“Ringo Starr set down rules for us to follow. There was to be no riding of motorbikes on the grounds – so we did that. What do you expect from a heavy metal band?” The crazy story of British Steel, the album that turned Judas Priest into superstars

1980’s British Steel officially sealed Judas Priest’s status as metal gods

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“Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution

In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain

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"The original fans are all our age, and they're all sort of expiring." Judas Priest's Ian Hill on the importance of appealing to a younger audience

Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill says the band need to remain relevant –because their OG fans won't be around forever

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“The fastest album they’d made, chock full of hard-headed riffs and squealing solos”: Every song on Judas Priest’s Painkiller ranked from worst to best

As The Metal Gods gear up to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary, we revisit and re-order every track on their evolutionary opus

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Rob Halford says another Judas Priest album is “inevitable”: “This band thrives on the metal that we make”

Mere months after Judas Priest released 19th album Invincible Shield, their frontman is already looking towards a followup

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“I’m always ready for a kitty cat!” We gave Judas Priest legend Rob Halford a load of kittens to play with and asked him about heavy metal, becoming a gay icon and (sort of) being Dolly Parton's BFF

Rob Halford, a room full of kittens and a leather codpiece - what more could you ask for?

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Bikie head seeks early jail release after almost dying

A Sydney bikie seriously injured after his brother was fatally gunned down wants less time in prison for his role in destroying evidence of another killing.

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“Roger Glover got me into Jaco. I heard the stuff he was doing with Weather Report while Priest were at the same studio in the ’70s”: Judas Priest’s Ian Hill names 8 bassists who shaped his sound

A mainstay of chug-and-slug for over five decades, the veteran bassist reveals the surprisingly wide range of influences that feed into the metal gods’ low-end –

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“McCartney was fantastic. Mind you, I tried one of those Hofner basses and I thought it was crap”: Judas Priest’s heavy metal veteran Ian Hill picks his top 5 bass albums

From the Beatles to the Bluesbreakers, we asked Ian Hill to name five albums that helped him along the righteous path to metal glory with Judas Priest

Guitar World

“This is one more shot at glory for me. I know the things I’ve been denied. I shouldn’t have to build it up all over again”: K.K. Downing on reclaiming his legacy with KK’s Priest – and what his one-off reunion with Judas Priest was really like

The original “Sinner” takes you behind the scenes of his dramas in and out of Priest and their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction – and why his turbo-charged new album is “about the fight and the victory”

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British Steel by Judas Priest: the story behind that iconic album artwork

"Still now, when you look at that cover, it has a tremendous impact" - Rob Halford

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Jewish school principal in Australia guilty of sexual abuse

The former principal of a Jewish girls school in Australia was found guilty of sexually abusing two students

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Australian jury mulls verdicts in Israeli principal trial

An Australian jury has retired to consider their verdicts following the six-week trial of a former principal of a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school accused of molesting three sisters

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Woman told to leave court after breastfeeding protest

A woman has been asked to leave the County Court after trying to stage a breastfeeding protest after a judge last week asked a breastfeeding mother to go.

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Lawyer for Malka Leifer tells jury alleged victim told 'blatant lies' and lacks credibility

During closing arguments in the sex abuse trial of the former principal of an ultra-orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne, defence barrister Ian Hill calls the alleged victims' credibility into question, accusing one woman of telling "blatant lies".

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Malka Leifer protested her innocence in tears as she was stood down, County Court trial hears

Appearances from former staff members at the ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel Jewish School detailed how Mrs Leifer denied wrongdoing after she was accused of abusing three sisters in her role as principal.

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Trial of former Melbourne principal Malka Leifer begins in County Court of Victoria

A Victorian court hears allegations school principal Malka Leifer told a former student "this will help you for your wedding night" while allegedly sexually assaulting her at a school camp. Warning: This story contains details of allegations of sexual abuse.

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Malka Leifer trial hears three sisters allegedly abused by teacher had ‘no understanding of sex’ at the time

The girls were too afraid to tell anyone given the former principal’s standing in the Hasidic community, Victoria’s county court hears

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Why the salt mines of Soledar, a 'network of underground cities', are prized by Russian mercenaries

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the landscape around Soledar is covered in Russian corpses. The head of Russia's feared Wagner Group calls neighbouring Bakhmut a "meat grinder". So why do the Russians keep coming?

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St Basil's bosses lose bid for silence

St Basil's Home for the Aged bosses have lost their challenge against giving evidence about the deaths of 50 residents during a COVID-19 outbreak.

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