Just in time for...Halloween?
Last month, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford announced that he would be releasing a Christmas album, Celestial, later this month. Now, the metal god has dropped a new single from this album, a shred-metal cover of the Christmas carol Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. You can listen to it below, to gear yourself up for the holiday season way in advance.
What's probably coolest about Rob's cover of Hark! The Herald Angels sing is that it's not at all ironic. He doesn't say "the fallen angels" or inject references to other metal musicians, he just straight-up motors through it and shrieks words like 'Emmanuel.' It's basically the soundtrack to a guy in a Santa suit jumping a gingerbread house on a Harley covered with string lights.
Feel some real good will towards your fellow metalhead below:
Rob bless us, every one.
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Check out the cover of Celestial below:
Here's the tracklist:
Celestial tracklist
1. Celestial
2. Donner and Blitzen
3. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4. Away In A Manger
5. Morning Star
6. Deck The Halls
7. Joy To The World
8. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
9. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
10. The First Noel
11. Good King Wenceslas
12. Protected By The Light
Judas Priest will be on tour Ozzy Osbourne on the rescheduled dates of the No More Tours II trek next year. Get your tickets now.
Ozzy Osbourne UK and Europe tour 2020
January
31 Nottingham, UK Motorpoint Arena
February
2 Dublin, IE 3Arena
5 Manchester, UK Manchester Arena
7 Newcastle, UK Utilita Arena
10 London, UK The O2
12 Glasgow, UK SSE Hyrdo
14 Birmingham, UK Resorts World Arena
17 Dortmund, DE Westfalenhalle
20 Helsinki, FI Hartwell Arena
22 Stockholm, SE Friends Arena
24 Berlin, DE Mercedes-Benz Arena
26 Vienna, AT Stadhalle
29 Prague, CZ O2 Arena
March
3 Hamburg, DE Barclaycard Arena
5 Munich, DE Olympianhalle
7 Mannheim, DE SAP Arena
10 Bologna, ITL Unipol Arena
13 Madrid, ES Wizink Arena
16 Zurich, CH Hallenstadion
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