Albums by Rob Halford
ALBUMCelestialRob Halford
ALBUMHalford III: Winter SongsRob Halford
ALBUMHalford IV - Made of MetalRob Halford
ALBUMCrucible (Remastered)Rob Halford
ALBUMResurrectionRob Halford
ALBUMVoyeurs2wo
ALBUMA Small Deadly SpaceFight
Rob Halford's Popular Music Videos
Black Wedding (feat. Rob Halford)
In This Moment
Donner and Blitzen
Rob Halford
Total Eclipse of the Heart (feat. Rob Halford)
Doro
Morning Star (Official Lyric Video)
Rob Halford
Golgotha (Live In Anaheim)
Rob Halford
Silent Screams (Live at Rock In Rio)
Rob Halford
Made In Hell (Live at Rock In Rio)
Rob Halford
Fire and Ice (Live at Saitama Super Arena)
Rob Halford
Cyberworld (Live at Rock In Rio)
Rob Halford
Heretic (Live In Anaheim)
Rob Halford
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Rob Halford Essentials
Vocal versatility marks the career of Judas Priest’s frontman.
Artist Biography
Rob Halford is at once a supreme and subversive figure in the history of early metal. As frontman for Judas Priest, he established both the extreme sound and fearsome fashion sensibility of the genre during its late-’70s ascent, boasting an operatic shriek that soared above the band’s revved-up riffs, and a penchant for head-to-toe leather attire (not to mention dramatic stage entrances on motorcycle) that forever defined metal as tough music for tough people. But while his hectoring delivery on ragers like “Hell Bent for Leather” and “Exciter” pointed the way from ’70s hard rock to ’80s thrash, Halford also had the finesse to elevate chugging warhorses like “Living After Midnight” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” into shout-along anthems. Following his departure from Priest in the early ’90s, he remained a towering figure in heavy music through a variety of projects—the post-thrash pummel of Fight, the Trent Reznor-produced industrial grind of Two, and the old-school metal theatrics of his eponymous band—before returning to the group in 2003. By that point, Halford wasn’t just an icon to headbangers: After he revealed himself to be the rare openly gay frontman in the aggro, alpha-male world of metal, it became clear just how much of the genre’s black-clad, macho look had been imported by Halford from queer leather-bar culture.
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Metal