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Judas Priest’s Rob Halford: ‘Coming out as gay? It’s unbelievable, the elation’
The frontman answers your questions on metal’s punk rivals, working with Dolly Parton, his top Priest song and his time working in a Walsall sex shop
In terms of riffage, I’ve always defined metal to the greatest extent with the bass and it’s a big, meaty, Black Sabbath-style riff – a West Midlands sledgehammer! I don’t mean to speak against other identities but there’s this thing about blokes and dignity, an extremely powerful word in what it represents – my dad was the same – and they are really strong in battling on. The way the dual guitars come in – because we were the first dual-guitar heavy-metal band – the bludgeoning riff, the singing going off, the unusual arrangement, the middle eight part where it goes very quiet, then it’s a blistering Glenn Tipton lead break, full of blues and metal, and then it ends with a bang and a scream.
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