Judas Priest v Iron Maiden | 1 | Origins

05/15/23 • 13 min

We're back!

And we're traveling back in time to the early days of two legendary British heavy metal bands - Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. These pioneering groups would later become global icons, but their humble beginnings were marked by struggle, perseverance, and a burning passion for music. This is the genesis of their riveting story.

Episode 1 takes us way back to the late 1960s.

Written, recorded, produced, and narrated by Steve Glaveski.

Quoted voices are AI-generated recreations of words said and captured in print by respective individuals.

A product of No Filter Media.

Sources: Too many to mention, but Steve Harris quotes in this episode are taken from Mick Wall's awesome Iron Maiden biography, Run To The Hills.

We're back!

Episode 1 takes us way back to the late 1960s.

Written, recorded, produced, and narrated by Steve Glaveski.

Quoted voices are AI-generated recreations of words said and captured in print by respective individuals.

A product of No Filter Media.

Sources: Too many to mention, but Steve Harris quotes in this episode are taken from Mick Wall's awesome Iron Maiden biography, Run To The Hills.

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Megadeth v Metallica | ENCORE with Mick Wall

Welcome to Battle of the Bands for a special encore episode featuring none other than the world’s leading rock and metal journalist, Mick Wall.

Mick Wall has worked in the music industry for over four decades, and is considered to be to music journalism what Keith Richards is to guitar.

Since cutting his teeth for rock magazine Sounds in 1976, Wall went on to work for the likes of Kerrang!, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Mojo and Classic Rock magazine, and has written countless rock and roll biographies, including Enter Night, the Metallica biography.

Mick lived through it all, and knows both Metallica and Megadeth intimately, so who better to join us to cap off season one of Battle of the Bands?

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Episode 2 kicks off in 1973 and takes us right through to 1978.

Written, recorded, produced, and narrated by Steve Glaveski.

Battle of the Bands is a No Filter Media production.

Sources: Too many to mention, but Mick Wall's awesome Iron Maiden biography, Run To The Hills, and Martin Popoff's excellent Judas Priest biography Heavy Metal Painkiller were both helpful.

Other publications such as Loudwire, Louder Sound, Metal Injection, and of course, Wikipedia, were used in sourcing interesting anecdotes and quotes.

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Disclosure: Quotes voiced in this episode are AI-generated recreations of on-the-record quotes by respective band members and individuals.