Tom Morello reveals more about directing Judas Priest’s documentary

Guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine talked about his directorial debut, “The Ballad Of Judas Priest,” a new documentary about Judas Priest and the renowned Grammy-winning English heavy metal band’s incredible rise to the pinnacle of rock and roll, in a recent interview with Chile’s Sonar FM, as per Blabbermouth.

The one thing I really love about Judas Priest — the guitar playing is fantastic; that’s to be taken for granted — but one of the things I loved about that band… So they were like the first metal band that — mostly heavy metal bands were about ‘worship me’ on stage, ‘Here I am, I’m a God, worship me.’ Judas Priest was, like, ‘We are a metal community together,’ and that’s something that really resonated with me. It made me feel, like, oh, I’m not just going there to like praise somebody, but, like, he’s metal, I’m metal, we are metal. And heavy metal music is the music that made me love music, and I wouldn’t be here today without it.

Morello gave this explanation for his involvement in “The Ballad of Judas Priest” production.

I just do it for love. I just do it for the love of it. I love Judas Priest and I wanted to help tell their story.

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