I probably started to get into heavy metal around ten years ago, and I only got into Judas Priest, I think, last year. I thought that was bad enough!
I don't know what it was about Priest, but they just never did it for me. They seemed to be somewhat of a novelty, yet at the same time I was going ape**** over Iron Maiden, who I do not consider a novelty band (there are fun, novelty elements within) but lets face it, if one is then the other is as well!
I never
really tried in all honesty for years, I just heard odd tracks here and there and wasn't convinced. I finally checked out British Steel and, I think, Painkiller and thought they were OK but then shelved them and didn't revisit them. The turning point for me, was Vanilla was telling me how much she loved Judas Priest and so I decided to revisit again - and all of a sudden those albums just clicked with me. Since then I've listened to most of their records by now, watched some documentaries, watched some live DVDs and generally just been loving them.
So yeah, Vanilla got me into Judas Priest.
