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Judas Priest farewell tour footage

The first load of crappy fan-shot videos of Judas Priest‘s farewell tour have made their way onto the interwebz thanks to today’s amazing technology (all this technology though, and it still hasn’t found me a girlfriend).

The footage, which is taken from Judas Priest‘s June 22, 2011 performance at the Gods Of Metal festival in Milan, Italy, can be seen both above and after the jump, because we’re just that damn awesome. Breaking The Law can be seen above. Rob Halford doesn’t sing the song, because I guess he’s tired or something huh?

More footage, as well as the setlist, can be found after the jump of doom. Or just jump if you prefer.

The Judas ‘farewell tour’ has been extended

I’m going to see Judas Priest live again soon, so please don’t take this post the wrong way. But I can’t stop making fun of the way they’ve handled press for this ‘farewell tour‘ which apparently isn’t really a farewell tour.

So what do you do when you pretend your current tour is the last one? You add more dates, of course.

North Americans, you’re in luck. You’ll be able to see this band for the (not really) last time starting in late October, all the way up to early December. Tour dates after the jump. They’ll be with Thin Lizzy and Black Label Society, so it’s not all bad (except for Black Label Society).

Full list of tour dates can be found on their official page.

Judas Priest clarify “Farewell Tour”

If by “farewell tour” they mean it’s not a farewell tour at all…

Judas Priest have one again decided to clarify the meaning of their farewell tour, on an online posting on their official website. Why? I can only assume some people are still confused. I don’t understand why all the confusion though. I mean, what does “farewell tour” say to you? It means the band are planning a final tour before they go into retirement, doesn’t it? Oh no wait, with Judas Priest it just means that it’s going to be their final world tour, and that they will continue to write music and tour, just not big world tours.

Seriously though, I’m beating a dead horse here, as are the band. We get it, you wanted to hype up a tour by screwing with semantics. Good for you.

“We would like to clarify a situation that seems to be confusing a few people out there.

When we issued our press release to announce the farewell tour – we stated that it was the last major world tour for Judas Priest – nothing has changed – we didn’t say it was the end of the band or that we were going to retire or the band was going to break up……….. Just that it would be the last major world tour we would be doing which is still the case.

We have plans for a new album (which we have already announced in an earlier press release) plus possible future releases and we would still consider doing the odd live show – if it is something special or for a great cause – but no more world tours.”

Source: judaspriest.com

Metal Hammer’s Golden God results

The UK’s Metal Hammer hosted their very “special” awards ceremony, The Golden Gods, last night. We at Dose of Metal at times have considered hosting our own awards ceremony, but ultimately we’re just not self-indulgent or pretentious enough to attempt such a feat. Actually, it’s just we’re too lazy, poor and not big enough to pull it off. Instead though, we can just look at other award ceremonies, and criticize them, which is exactly what I’m going to be doing.

Winners include Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rob Zombie and many more. Find the complete results, plus my own little thoughts and criticism below.

* Best New Band – The Damned Things —- Meh, debut was catchy, but overall fairly mediocre.
* Metal As F*ck – Nergal (Behemoth) —- No argument here.
* Best Underground – Primordial —- Also no arguments here.
* Dimebag Darrell Shredder(s) – Gus G. (FIREWIND, OZZY OSBOURNE) —- Yeah, Gus is pretty awesome.
* Breakthrough Artist – Sabaton —- Who??
* Best UK Band – Iron Maiden —- Of course. Question though, do Iron Maiden win every year? 😛
* Best Live Band – Skindred —- Skindred? Fuck off.
* Inspiration Award – Twister Sister —- Twisted Sister? No thanks
* Best International Band – Avenged Sevenfold —- Fuck off.
* Best Album – “Absolute Dissent” by Killing Joke —- Haven’t heard it yet, so unsure on this one, but I bet there’s better.
* Event of the Year – “The Big 4” coming together for first time ever in the U.K. —- Yeah, as a UK citizen, this is awesome.
* Riff Lord(s) – Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein (DOWN) — Down are great, but there’s a lot of riff lords I guess.
* Spirit of Hammer – Diamond Head — Yeah, I guess I’m cool with this.
* Icons – Judas Priest —- Undeniably deserving of the title.
* Golden God – Rob Zombie —- Rob Zombie sucks.

Friday Top 10: Albums of the 90s

So, many of us here at Dose of Metal are in our mid twenties, and we grew up with Metal in the ’90s. It may not go down as the greatest decade in Metal history, but fuck it, I love the ’90s. So many damn good albums came out of that decade, and that’s the purpose of this week’s Friday Top 10.

The list is pretty simple. Two rules: Only one album per band, to keep it varied, and secondly, Metal only, and that’s it. Other than that, I just blew this list out of my ass, because I’m awesome and you should listen to me.

So what are you waiting for? Make the jump for this week’s Friday Top 10.