Judas Priest Honored at Rock Corridor

Let’s get this out of the best way — Judas Priest being solely the third correct heavy metallic band to be inducted into the Rock Corridor is loopy, proper? Black Sabbath gave delivery to my music, and rightfully, was the primary metallic band inducted into the Rock Corridor. However Judas Priest took metallic and made it far more guitar-driven, mainstream and sooner. So I’m right here to say: It’s about time!

Priest are the proud leaders of the New Wave of British heavy metallic motion, which spawned the twin-guitar assault many bands nonetheless use right this moment. They paved the best way for thrash, influencing Pantera, Testomony, Slayer, Megadeth, Exodus, Anthrax, Overkill and hundreds of others. On a grander scale, Priest made metallic music super-popular, and introduced so many followers to our aspect of the spectrum.

I used to be nonetheless in kindergarten when my older, long-haired cousin launched me to Judas Priest. It was hook, line and sinker for me, and I’ve by no means strayed from metallic since. Then my household received MTV and Judas Priest discovered a direct technique to our metallic hearts by means of their leathered-out movies.

Sadly, I wasn’t sufficiently old to go to Priest live shows, so I binged on tapes, CDs, movies, magazines, guitar-tab books and my “Painkiller” poster. That took me by means of the subsequent 15 years or so, till I received my job at Sirius Satellite tv for pc Radio in 2000, lastly assembly metallic god Rob Halford when he got here as much as our New York headquarters upon launch.

He handled me like gold! I had simply began within the rock division, and from my first assembly with the band’s frontman, we bonded over a love of Arizona, my dwelling state and the one he’d moved to within the ’90s. He was the sweetest, most honest and real individual ever, and since then we now have finished tons of interviews everywhere in the nation and at our SXM studios.

After 50 years of heavy metallic, Judas Priest has grow to be a part of the material of life. Greater than only a band, they’re a motion and a logo of rock and roll freedom. There is no such thing as a another deserving to be inducted into the Rock Corridor than them — higher late than by no means!

Jose “Metallic Ambassador” Mangin could be heard on SiriusXM Octane.

This essay is a part of a collection — in partnership with the on-air expertise of SiriusXM — to pay tribute to the performers being inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame on Nov. 5 in Los Angeles. Catch the entire Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame 2022 Induction Ceremony on HBO Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. ET, together with a simulcast on SiriusXM’s Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Radio (channel 310). SiriusXM listeners can even catch stay, backstage protection and commentary on Quantity on the SXM app and on Faction Discuss (channel 103).