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Happy Birthday to KISS’ Gene Simmons and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford!
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Gene Simmons and Rob Halford

Happy Birthday today to two iconic figures of hard rock, the firebreathing demon of KISS, Gene Simmons, and the wailing, high-pitched and demonic bottom-ended harbringer of all things early British heavy metal, Rob Halford of Judas Priest.

Both men are downright revolutionary in what they bring and continue to bring to their respective bands, although arguably Kiss and Judas Priest while certainly equally loved by fans of hard rock/heavy metal, are two decidedly different bands for sure.

Simmons was born Chaim Weitz in Haifa, Israel on August 25, 1949. It has been written that Simmons’ mother, Florence, and her brother Larry, survived the Holocaust a few years before Chaim was born. The Weitz family moved to Queens, New York when Chaim was 8 years old. By the time he was a teenager, he became known as Gene Simmons, and started tooling around in local bands, first one called Lynx, then The Missing Links, and others as well. About a half a decade went by when he formed Wicked Lester with himself on bass and buddy Stanley Harvey Eisen on rhythm guitar and lead vocals (Eisen also eventually sported a moniker change and became known as Paul Stanley.) Wicked Lester went through some crisis modes with their lineups and ended with the two disbanding that unit even though a record deal had been in place. For their next project, the two found a drummer in Peter Criscoula and a lead guitarist in Paul Frehley. THOSE two changed their names as well to Peter Criss and Ace Frehley respectively and thus the new quartet, known as KISS, was born.

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$3 MP3 Album Deal: Judas Priest ‘Screaming For Vengeance’
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Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance

This week, Judas Priest‘s Screaming For Vengeance is on sale in MP3 format for only $2.99. The CD is currently $8.92.

Released in 1982, Screaming For Vengeance is my favorite Priest album and is perfect from start to finish! Stand out tracks are “The Hellion/Electric Eye” (one of the greatest album openers ever!), “Riding On The Wind,” “Devil’s Child,” “Bloodstone,” and of course, the tune everyone knows – “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’.”

Here’s where I tell you that this is one of the greatest metal albums of all time and since I’m the Empress Of Metal, you should take my word for it that you should grab this album for a mere three bucks.

Browse all 100 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99.

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March Is Metal: 20 MP3 Albums For Under $7 Each
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March Is Metal 2012

Have you noticed all our March Is Metal posts? What’s March Is Metal, Precious? It’s only this awesome event celebrating all things metal over at Amazon, where tons of hard rock and heavy metal music is on sale. Now, I don’t know about you, but I do not want this March Is Metal madness to end, but alas, all good things must come to an end. With today being the final day in March, I started to panic thinking about all these good metal deals on albums from bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, and more going away, therefore here’s my final March Is Metal post: 20 MP3 Albums For Under $7 Each

First up, let me remind you that there’s a ton of Rush albums on sale for $5 each, so seriously, get on that if you haven’t already. Second, FREE FREE FREE March is Metal Month – 2012 Sampler MP3 download. Get 18 songs from bands like Ice Earth, Corrosion Of Conformity, In Flames, Five Finger Death Punch, Lacuna Coil, and more for FREE. Free. free. FReE. Get it? Ok, good.

Also, head’s up: These Anthrax CDs are on sale for only $4.99 each, and they are awesome albums, so grab them up! Spreading the Disease, Among The Living, State of Euphoria

And for those about to rock, we salute you.

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MP3 Song Deal: Judas Priest’s ‘Living After Midnight’
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Judas Priest Logo

From what Amazon is telling me, March Is Metal, so all month long they’re having sales on all things metal – sounds good to me!

Today, they are offering up the MP3 version of the classic Judas Priest tune Living After Midnight for only $.69. Although the song was originally released on 1980’s British Steel, the MP3 version offered today is taken from the best-of compilation The Chosen Few, priced at $10.99 for 17 songs that are all, wait, let me double check the track listing… yeah, pretty much awesome.

Though it’s strange to talk about metal bands having hits, “Living After Midnight” definitely qualifies as one for Judas Priest and is basically a gateway song to their extensive music catalog. Plus, if you’re first learning how to play guitar or bass, “Living After Midnight” is one of the first songs you’ll be able to master, along with Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water” and Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.” So, if you’re not already a Priest fan, definitely get in on this $.69 MP3 song deal, and don’t be afraid to grab the entire The Chosen Few album right now at its current low price.

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Rob Halford’s Motorcycle Malfunction: You Can’t Keep A Metal God Down
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Judas Priest

Rob Halford is the Metal God, and with good reason. The lead singer of metal legends Judas Priest, currently on their final tour entitled Epitaph, recently had a bit of a fall off his motorcycle onstage, when riding on during the band’s performance of “Hell Bent For Leather.” The true metal professional that he is, Halford gets right back up again and continues kicking it with the band onstage. View video footage of the incident at the bottom of this post.

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