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Sunday, 20 January 2008 21:18 |
 TheMetalForge.com recently spoke with Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. Several excepts from the interview are included below.
As some fans may be well aware, Priest were recently inducted into Kerrang magazine’s prestigious Hall Of Fame.
Halford: “Yeah! That was amazing! I mean Kerrang magazine – as
you’re aware – is quite an influential mag over in the UK and that kind
of came out of the blue! We were asked to accept the award quite some
time ago, but it was just a matter of trying to get us all in the same
country at the same time because we’re spread around the world. But it
was a brilliant night out! To be recognized by that magazine – it’s a
weekly publication that reaches about a quarter of a million metal
heads and rock heads each week in Great Britain – it was just a very
cool thing to receive. And you know, to be in the company of the other
bands that were there, like MACHINE HEAD for example, Trent from NINE
INCH NAILS, FALL OUT BOY, GALLOWS, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE – it was just
good company! So we had a brilliant night out there with everybody!”
Certainly, between the new Essentials release, the recording
sessions of Nostradamus and the award from Kerrang, it could be said
that there’s plenty going in the Halford camp to keep the man well and
truly busy!
Halford: “Yeah non stop! (Laughs) In over thirty years of it, it
doesn’t let up! So it’s absolutely fantastic of course to still be so
active and vital in the world of metal all these years later – it’s
still the best gig in the world to do what I do. I love it you know?
It’s just a real passion.”
I mentioned to Rob that he’s certainly come a long way over the
past thirty-something years and wondered if it was strange looking back
on how things had turned out.
Halford: “Well you know, I think the thing about music is that it
doesn’t really have much of a timeline attached to it. I mean I know
it’s been over 30 years but it certainly doesn’t seem that long. It’s
remarkable! Like in all of these CD’s and hundreds and hundreds of
songs and doing thousands of shows and travelling millions of miles
around the world – time just seems to fly be so quickly. But I think
the essence of what keeps you driven to do what you do is still pretty
much the same as it was when it first kicked off. You’ve got to really
be getting something out of being a metal player, creating music,
recording it and then taking it out and playing the gigs. So all of
that time just seems to get eaten up really quickly.”
Read the whole interview at this location.
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