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Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums[2] and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band had struggled with poor record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when their sixth studio album British Steelbrought them notable mainstream attention.
The band’s membership has seen much turnover. During the 1970s, the core of bassist Ian Hill, lead singer Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing saw a revolving cast of drummers, before Dave Holland joined them for ten years from 1979 to 1989. Since Holland’s departure, Scott Travis has been the band’s drummer. Halford left the band in 1992, and after a four year hiatus, Judas Priest regrouped in 1996 with Tim “Ripper” Owens, formerly of Winter’s Bane, replacing Halford. After two albums with Owens, Halford returned to the band in 2003. Downing left the band in 2011, replaced by Richie Faulkner. The current line-up consists of Hill, Tipton, Travis, Halford and Faulkner; although Tipton remains as an official member of Judas Priest, he has limited his touring activities since 2018 due to Parkinson’s disease, with Andy Sneapfilling in for him. Hill and Tipton are the only two of the band to appear on every album.
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