Judas Priestcast

This week we welcome back our good friend and music festival world traveler, Melissa (@METALCHATPOD) We get caught up with Melissas latest journey to Greece with Fearghal which included some good ol fashioned road stories and a lot of music and beer. We chat about a lot of social media mutuals along with future travel plans and bands and festivals and beer and wine and all kind of shenanigans. The...

This week we welcome Jonas onto the Priestcast. Jonas is way too smart to be on a podcast with Jay. Luckily Jeff was able to have an intelligent conversation with our brilliant guest. Jonas tells us about how his metal journey started. Yes-it involves an older brother and No-it does not involve Kiss! We discuss a ton of bands and genres including Post Metal which Jay had never heard of. Jonas lets...

This week we welcome in our favorite smart ass and fellow Kiss hater, Gavin O'Connor. Gav is a Twitter legend with his controversial and witty takes on music and politics and life in general. We hear Gav's music and Priest story along with a chat about Northern Irelands music scene. Of course a lot of music is discussed that Jay knows nothing about and Jeff could teach a class on. Our Prie...

This week we welcome back a Priestcast OG, Hattie. We get caught up with Hattie and see what she's been up to. We get sidetracked though and end up chatting about the culinary delicacy of 2 stroke oil and we debate whether coffee is too liquidy. Hattie has a fascination and obsession with Boston and also tells us we need a sound board. One of us apparently frequently says weird things and one...

This week we welcome back our good friend Squashy. @FUTURESQUASH767 is always a fun and interesting conversation because he really knows his music. We get caught up on all of Squashy's latest concert escapades and he always hips us to a band or two we've never heard of. Jeff and Squashy shoot the breeze about a bunch of bands Jay's never heard as well as albums both new and old that ar...

This week we welcome in Casper the friendly Ghost and Priest and metal fan. We have a rad conversation about a variety of things including how her dad put her aboard the Crazy Train to metal. We also discuss how Casper is a great humanitarian and wants freedom And Justice For All. Jeff and Casper reminisce about how every metal head knows or knew a Scandinavian exchange student named Bjorn that in...

This week we welcome back to the Priestcast our favorite Londoner, Connor. Connor is a NWOTHM expert as well as a fantastic music podcaster and documentarian. Connor is also a wannabe teacher apparently and assigned Jeff and Jay some homework involving three bands and records they had never heard. Of course we give oral book reports on those three records as well as discuss a bunch of other bands...

This week we get caught up with our good friend and first ever guest on the podcast, Sam. Sam is always a great and thoughtful conversation because he is about the smartest person we know. We sit around and talk about everything and anything from country music to local soda pop and everything in between. Of course we talk alot of metal and even review the new Megadeth. The Priest Family Madness to...

This week we welcome in two dudes that have been best friends for over 30 years. They bonded over music back in the day and continued on as bandmates and started a music podcast years later. Hearing their high school and life stories will not only bring back memories of your high school years but also have you laughing your asses off. The Priest Family Madness tournament rolls on with Jay's fa...

For our last show of 2025, we welcome back our good friend Squashy (@FUTURESQUASH767). We get caught up with our homie and all his shenanigans and concert escapades. We couldn't do a year end episode without an album of the year segment of course. Our Priest Family Madness tournament rolls on with another battle of first's: Two- Voyeurs Vs. KK's Priest-Sermons of the Sinner. The result...

This week the Priestcast OG, George stops by. We get caught up with travel and shows and life. We all give our thoughts on next years Faithkeepers tour and other Priest news. The Priest Family Madness tournament goes dashing along with Rob Halford's Celestial Vs. Turbo. You will never hear Jeff get so passionate about two Madness tournament albums... The Spinner year is 2025. Spoiler alert- we...

This week we welcome back our good mate Paul from @3Legs4Wheels podcast. Paul has been in many bands and he brought Jeff some holiday cheer by surprising us with his good friend and former bandmate Hamish Glencross formerly from My Dying Bride and currently with Godthrymm. This was one of the rare times Jeff was rendered speechless. Hamish shares alot of band stories and speaks of Godthrymm's...

This week we welcome back our good friend Bill (@RealMetalKevin). Bill is a podcast icon and is the most prolific music podcaster in the world. Bill has recently been reviewing albums released in 1990 on his podcast Music from a Lifetime and that year is so loaded and pivotal that we decided to discuss the year 1990 in music. We discuss 20 something records that we dig and were important in the mu...

This week we pop another podcast cherry with @NatesHiddenGems. Nate was so smooth you'd think he was on old pod pro. Nate has killer music knowledge and we discuss alot of bands from well known to unknown. We also hear a really fun metal story that doesn't involve Kiss for once! This weeks Priest Family Madness tournament matchup has Fight War Of Words up against Angel of Retribution. Will...

Here is the episode originally released on 10-24-25. This platform removed it but here it is violation free. This weeks Priestcast is Extreme Mayhem with @ExtremeMetalDad. We do all the cool metal story stuff and have round #2 of our "Priest Family Madness" tournament with Screaming For Vengeance going up against Halford's Crucible. The results may just cause a little Mayhem and Madn...

This week we welcome Leon from Lightforce up in this joint. Leon is the force behind his band Lightforce and he shares with us the emotional meaning behind both the name of his band and the name of the EP "Father Time". We hear Leon's musical journey from childhood up until now and how his musical evolution inspired Father Time. We have a really cool conversation with a really cool d...

This week we welcome in another podcast virgin, Seth(@thestormmaster). Rest assured we were very gentle and Seth assured us that is was a very pleasurable experience. Seth's metal journey is quite unique and his path is interesting and surprising. Some of the things we discuss are chicken wire, trailer parks, chain smokers, dudes in dresses, flying doobies, base commanders, dead milkmen and ev...

This week we welcome back Mike(@BlackIronJudas). Mike is always a hilarious chat and he really knows his metal. We hear all about his family adventures and music adventures and laugh a hell of a lot. In fact, I don't know what there is more of, dialog or laughter. Our second segment is the ol fan favorite, Yearbook. In keeping with the Priest catalog chronology, the controversial Point of Entr...

This week we are humbled and honored to be starting season 5! This podcast would not be possible without the Priestcast OG's, George and Hattie. George continues to be a huge part of the pod with his love and support and awesome ideas and has been a frequent guest. NOW IT'S HATTIE TIME!! Hattie is not only a great friend but is one of the most beautiful people on the planet. Hattie has suc...

This week we welcome back Paul from 3Legs4Wheels Formula 1 Podcast. We screwed around so much last time Paul was on the pod that we forgot to ask him his Judas Priest story. We take care of that this time. We laugh ourselves to tears and side aches again this time around. Paul is an expert storyteller and we hear about concerts, Formula 1, caramel wafers, ships ,fog and 12 strings along with a bun...

This week we welcome in the legend, Punt Road. Between a Footy match, a massive hail storm and a birthday dance party, we managed to sit down with Punt for a chat and a laugh. First we remember OZZY and what he meant to us. Then we hear all about Punt's pilgrimage to Birmingham for Back to the Beginning from ticket que through return to Australia. It was quite the long strange trip. We all giv...

This week we welcome in Robin from Sweden. Robin is the biggest Priest nerd you'll ever meet and it's rad! Naturally the Priestcast took his podcast virginity. We hear all about Robin's Priest and metal stories in Gothenburg. Robin proudly displays his Priest nerdery throughout his home and on his car. This gave us the inspiration for a fun segment that involves Judas Priest driving so...

This week we welcome in Dave Benzotti from Benzottilive. Dave is a longtime concert promotor and involved with everything and anything metal. Dave has over30 years of metal stories and has an unbelievable story about how he got into concert promotion. In our second segment, we each put together a festival featuring bands that have opened for Priest in the past. of course Priest headlined the uniqu...

This week we welcome in the beautiful and talented Jenny King. Jenny is one of our favorite follows on the twitter machine and after listening to this episode you'll know why. Jenny is so well spoken and brilliant and absolutely hilarious. We laugh and talk about everything from Star Trek to old man saggy ball sacks with alot of metal talk woven in between. We pull out the high school yearbook...

This week we welcome in Wille from the land of metal, Finland. Wille tells us his music story and how he went about acquiring records in a rural finnish town without a record store. I wanna grow, I wanna grow, I wanna grow, Hot Peppers- we also hear about Wille's legal growing operation. His peppers will give you Firepower. In our main segment we explore songs from bands that were directly ins...