MASTODON GUITARIST SAYS JUDAS PRIEST IS NOT A HEAVY METAL BAND, BUT A CLASSIC ROCK BAND
Mastodon guitarist and singer, Brent Hinds, spoke in an interview with The Jasta Show and claimed that Judas Priest is not metal band.
He said that “Judas Priest is more of a classic rock band.” Here’s the statement:“Oh my god, I’m the worst at interviews. Most of the time I have to call the journalists and beg them to let me do another interview.
Man, I try my hardest not do them wrong. I try to avoid them like the plague, honestly. But I do them from time to time, especially for good friends around Christmas time. That’s the problem right there with interviews – they’re taking my s–t out of context a lot.
I don’t think… I wasn’t meaning any harm by it. I was just stating my opinion, man, of it. For me, my opinion is that Judas Priest is more of a classic rock band.
*starts singing, You’ve Got Another Thing Comin*, “You know, these songs are like a couple of chords chunked together. More of a classic rock…”
Back in March 2017, he talked with The Jasta Show and said:
“Judas Priest is not metal, people, it’s rock ‘n’ motherf–kin’ roll! Who in their right mind that has a brain in their head thinks that Judas Priest sounds like a metal band?”
On Judas Priest’s popular song Painkiller, he said:
“To me, that’s just hard rock ‘n’ roll. I’m not buying into that. I heard all Judas Priest songs, I went on tour with them, I know them all personally, they’re amazing people.
They truly think they’re metal gods, like Rob Halford’s like, ‘I’m a metal god.’ That’s weird to say, but whatever. [Chuckles] Like, just don’t say it, it just makes you sound weird when you say it.”
additional source: metaldevastationradio.com
That’s okay, I don’t consider his band Heavy Metal, either, but something akin to what a dinosaur would poop out. This knuckle scraper left his common sense, and hearing, back in the Pleistocene era.
The Metal God > most everything.
Lol…these guys couldn’t write a song that would get airplay back when there was no MTV to save their lives!…..Priest have had more problems with ungrateful openers…smh….
The one thing about the metal world the Spinal Tap film missed was the slagging of other bands, and the persistent debates about which category to put a band in.
I think I’ve seen some quotes from the original Black Metal Norwegians about how 80s Metallica was not really metal.
Sounds like pure jealousy and envy to me. Judas Priest ARE Metal Gods! Mastodon? Yeah, right! “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’!”
I agree with Brent Hinds…..he’s the worst at interviews cuz he says stupid $h!t. He previously made negative public comments about Dream Theater, too.
The song “Painkiller” is one of my favorite Priest songs, and that song is so metal. Brent needs his ears checked if he doesn’t hear the metal in that song, or any Priest song.
Priest is metal in music and image. And Halford never proclaimed himself a “metal god”. Us fans label him that cuz its true and it’s deserving.
Brent, take your “wanna-be band” and go away…….