http://www.billboard.com/events/judas-priest-announces-farewell-tour-dates-1004133950.story?tag=hpfeed
So it's come to this.
All of the originators of heavy metal, those who have survived addictions A, B, and C, are finally headed to pasture. It had to happen eventually, though I will say that, probably because heavy metal is such a young genre, it comes as a bit of a shock. Ronnie James Dio died earlier this year, Judas Priest is finishing, and even bands like Iron Maiden, the real workhorse of the bunch, are hinting the end may be nigh. It almost seems funny, metal being obsessed generally with the various finalities of life, but the curtain call is beginning for the first wave of heavy metal.
But hey, at least we've got Ozzy "England's biggest joke" Osbourne traipsing all over the globe like some meandering jackass let loose at last from his yoke. There's hope yet.
Keep an ear to the ground and a foot in the pit,
Eric
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