Music Priest does a show worthy of Metal Gods at Monsters of Rock 2025 British Band founded for over 55 years has been going on much of his catalog and leaves fans thinking: How does Rob Halford still sings so well?

For metal gods, it is not enough to reach 55 years of career: it is necessary to reach such a number of surprising quality. Who watched the show offered by Judas Priest on Saturday night, 19, as a last last attraction of the Monsters of Rockat Allianz Parque, in São Paulo, came out of his jaw dropped. For various reasons.

There is no way to stop starting with Rob Halford. The man who made the nickname “Metal God” justifies, with each tour, his practically immortal character in music – heavy or not. At 73, he still sings that it is a barbarity. With the same breath and disposition of past decades? The answer is obvious. Not only would it be ridiculous to wait for it, as it is not even necessary, because what it has is more than enough to, reinforcement, make complaints fallen.

Aware that it follows at a high level, Halford does not relieve for you. It faces very complicated execution songs without escaping exploring your voice. “Painkiller”, the title track of the album whose tour set them in Brazil for the first time-Rock in Rio 1991-continues in the setlist with vocal performance worthy of applause. Sides B as “Devil’s Child” and “Riding on the Wind” may sound challenging to other singers, but Rob kills in the chest. And what about the acute “Victim of Changes”, performed after a brief tribute on the big screen GLENN TICTONguitarist away since 2018 due to Parkinson? What other septuagenaries can do something like this?

The irony of fate is that the Priest was founded in 1969 by another singer: AL ATKINSwith other musicians who would never participate in other formations. The following year, the original vocalist joined the guitarist forces Kk Downing and the bassist Ian Hillbut as proof that metal gods write right by crooked lines, it fell out in 1973 due to financial problems in the group. Halfordbrother of the girlfriend of Hill At the time, he was called to replace him. You can imagine the story of heavy music without Rob? Worse: without Rob node Judas Priest?

Hill74, only musician besides Halford To remain since then, it seems unnecessary in this context. It is not: the bassist provides musical solidity and knows he needs to step back for the others to shine. In addition to the vocalist, the “brand new” guitarists are under constant spotlight Richie Faulkner45, and Andy Sneap55. Each one deserves mention aside.

The first, substitute for Downing when he decided to retire at the end of 2010, kind of became the second most prominent member Typton had to move away. It assumes the largest load of soils and never demonstrates any kind of sequel to recent health problems, since the aortic aneurysm that suffered in the stage in 2021 to the series of strokes that, according to his own, left him brain damage.

The second, occupant of the post of Glenn From 2018, it is also a renowned producer who even recorded his own Judas before joining tours. Interestingly, it was hardly on the plans for 2022 onwards. In an already admitted steps on the ball, Halford announced at the beginning of the year mentioned that the Priest I would follow as a quartet, having only Faulkner on the six strings. As this band depends that the instrument in question is in double format, it made no sense – and the decision was reversed. Gods also make mistakes, but soon correct. Although more discreet than Richie, Andy It seems to be more comfortable on stage: it has circulated more, assuming new soils and even letting hair grow within its genetic limitations.

There is still Scott Travis63, simply the battery line creator of the aforementioned “Painkiller”. Although you are sitting all the time, it is the one who looks more like a boy, given the energy of his performance. It sounds like, in a good way, a machine, such accuracy.

Classics from outside – “Screaming for Vengeance”, “The Sentinel”, “Metal Gods”, “The Ripper” and the like – the choice of the setlist is also surgical, although not so much the sequence in which it rides. First, the merits: ten of the 19 studio albums are contemplated, with obvious focus on the 1970s and 1980s. Out of there, only “Payiller” and three of the new album only Invincible Shield: The title track, “Crown of Horns”, and “Panic Attack”, is positioned at the opening, when the audience still looks embarrassed with the look and structure of the stage. It’s almost like a warm -up for what comes, especially with “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin”, “Rapid Fire” and “Breaking the Law.” What show would it end badly with such an overwhelming beginning?

Remember, however, of boring conversation about sequence? It is a fact that the reactions crashes a little in the section of the set, considered the series of less known amended songs, from fifth to ninth: “Riding on the Wind”, “Love Bites”, “Devil’s Child”, “Crown of Horns” and “Sinner”, some of them already mentioned. But it pleases the most dedicated fans and, again, seems to be prepared for an even more grand blast with more classic amended, from the Hard Rocker “Turbo Lover” to the root “Victim of Changes”, apart from Bis with “Electric Eye”, entrance to the motorcycle Halford“Hell Bent For Leather” and “Living after Midnight”.

These gods also write right on crooked lines. Whether in setting up the setlist or almost the whole history of your career. THE Priest He suffered from ups and downs more than other large heavy sound bands. It took almost a decade to achieve due success; had several changes in the battery until they stabilize with today’s deceased Dave Holland; They seemed out of tone sometimes with more affordable experiments in the 1980s; lost Rob Halford Just in a good time with the album Paingiller; Even with the singer’s return in the 2000s, they took considerable time until they produce a really good record (Firepower,, 2018); They announced farewell tour just to go back… All this to arrive in 2025 as the most respected metal band in activity and certainly one of the biggest names in genre history that helped shape. Because what remains are the hits. And in this regard they are… gods. Amen.

1. Panic Attack
2. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin ‘
3. Rapid Fire
4. Breaking the Law
5. Riding on the wind
6. Love Bites
7. Devil’s Child
8. Crown of Horns
9. Sinner
10. Turbo lover
11. Invincible Shield
12. VICTIM OF CHANGES
13. The Green Manishi (with the Two Prong Crown)
14. Paingiller
    Bis:
15. The Hellion + Electric Eye
16. Hell Bent For Leather
17. Living after Midnight