Judas Priest would be the topic of a brand new documentary co-directed by Rage Towards The Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
The Birmingham metallic veterans at the moment (Could 21) introduced by way of Selection that The Ballad Of Judas Priest, directed by Morello and Sam Dunn (Steel: A Headbanger’s Journey), will come out by way of Sony Music Imaginative and prescient, in affiliation with Sony Music Leisure UK and Epic Information.
Morello and Dunn say that the movie, the discharge date of which is but to be introduced, will hint Priest’s “unimaginable 50-year journey” and “seize how Judas Priest each outlined the sound and look of metallic [and] made it a extra inclusive place alongside the way in which”.
The band remark: “We’ve got lived and breathed metallic for over 5 many years, and at last on this documentary we’re summoning our congregation to formally witness our lives uncensored, in a never-before-seen method… the cassock comes off, revealing Priest in all its metallic glory!”
Dunn’s Banger Movies produced The Ballad Of Judas Priest, with Morello additionally serving as government producer and Dunn as co-producer. In addition to the Steel: A Headbanger’s Journey documentary, Banger Movies have made stay albums and live performance movies with Iron Maiden, Rush, ZZ Prime and extra.
The Ballad Of Judas Priest’s announcement provides to what was already shaping as much as be a blockbuster 2025 for the band. They just lately wrapped up the touring cycle for his or her 2024 album Invincible Protect however have a lot extra stay plans for the approaching months, together with co-headline exhibits with shock rock icon Alice Cooper, a set on the Sixtieth-anniversary celebration for arduous rockers Scorpions, and dates celebrating the thirty fifth anniversary of their landmark 1990 album Painkiller.
See the entire band’s upcoming live shows by way of their web site.
In addition to being The Ballad Of Judas Priest’s co-director, Morello is the musical director for the upcoming Black Sabbath farewell present, happening at Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5. Priest are one among only a few high-profile metallic acts to not be on the stacked invoice, about which singer Rob Halford stated he’s “gutted” in a current Steel Hammer interview.
Priest aren’t the primary long-serving UK metallic band to just lately announce a documentary. In March, Iron Maiden revealed that they’ll be the topic of a movie, due out later this yr. It is going to be a part of the London-based titans Fiftieth-anniversary festivities, which begin subsequent week with a headline tour throughout Europe.
