Judas Priest is speeding things up on their new track "The Serpent And The King", and man – Rob Halford is on fucking fire with this one.
"Judas Priest screaming heavy metal for over 50 years," said Rob Halford to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 of the new single. "The passion and the power and the love and the dedication and all the other glorious words that you can utilize into this band, Judas Priest, are just roaring in this song, 'The Serpent and the King'. It's just another definition of this particular style of metal, this intense, relentless, unyielding, invincible approach and love that we have in this band for this particular song.
"And we've talked about a lot of things. We've talked about the sinner, we've talked about the saints, and we've talked about the painkiller but we've never talked about God and the devil getting into the universal boxing ring, so to speak. That's the message.
"We're talking about this age-old thing that's been going on since the universe began. It's God, it's the devil. It's black and white, it's positive, negative, it's good, it's evil, it's love, it's hate. It's all of these different textures wrapped up into this fierce non-stop, relentless track, 'The Serpent and the King'."
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