Rob Halford and K.K. Downing at the height of their fame – this image is from a shoot for Metal Shock Magazine – it would be used as the front cover. Judas Priest like Black Sabbath hail from Birmingham in England. The band’s name comes from the Bob Dylan song ‘The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest’. Forming in 1969 the band went through numerous line up changes before finding major success with Halford and Downing – establishing themselves as Metal superstars with their 1980 album ‘British Steel’ which went Gold and Platinum worldwide.