Martin Popoff. Judas Priest - Heavy Metal Painkillers (2007)

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Like Sabbath, like Trapeze and like half of Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest struggled to life under the grey, metal-clanked skies of Birmingham — the black country — smack in the middle of the U.K., just far enough from easier rock ’n’ rolling London to cause a loud lack of hope.

It has often been said — eloquently and often by all of Priest and all of Sabbath — that Birmingham, by its very nature, breeds heavy metal. Steel, car parts, burning rubber, metal stamping, tool and die, and early death from blackened lungs . . . it’s all wrapped up like a fist and a cyst smack at the heart of industrial Britain, and it was often the prime motivator to come up with something — anything — to get a handsome young man out from under the yoke that cursed his kinfolk. Often, that “anything” was heavy metal, a musical form forged to compete with the factory

I CAME FROM A REAL BROKEN HOME SITUATION SO I GUESS yOU BECOME A BIT OF A REBEL ...yOU EITHER BECOME A HEAVy METAL GUITAR PLAyER OR yOU ENd UP IN jAIL!

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