Okay, you’re not misreading this. Yes, Judas Priest is getting their own documentary and yes, Rage Against The Machine‘s guitarist, Tom Morello, is co-directing it!
The Ballad Of Judas Priest hasn’t been given a release date, but we do know it’s being co-directed by Morello and metal filmmaker Sam Dunn (Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey). BOOM!
It’s expected that The Ballad Of Judas Priest will highlight the band’s legendary 50-year career and their enormous impact on metal. The doc will tell their story in “a never-before-seen way” with “intimate, unfiltered access to their lives”.
The band said in a statement: “We have lived and breathed metal for over five decades, and finally in this documentary we are summoning our congregation to officially witness our lives uncensored, in a never-before-seen way…the cassock comes off, revealing Priest in all its metal glory!”
Co-directors Morello and Dunn said in a joint statement: “Tracing their incredible 50-year journey, this film will capture how Judas Priest both defined the sound and look of metal, but also made it a more inclusive place along the way. We are grateful to the band for allowing us such intimate, unfiltered access to their lives and look forward to bringing this film to the metal masses around the world.”
How cool is this?! A Priest doc? Bring it! Which other bands would you like to see release a documentary?
