Priest feast for metal lovers

It will be a Valentine's Night with a difference when Midlands heavy metal legends Judas Priest bring their Priest Feast tour to Birmingham's LG Arena on Saturday, February 14.

Support comes from the equally legendary thrash veterans Megadeth and Testament.

Tickets are £37.50 plus booking and transaction fee and can be purchased at www.theticketfactory.com or by calling 0844 33 88 000.

Priest return to their Midlands roots with the Birmingham gig after wowing this year's Download Festival at Castle Donington.

It was the second time that Priest had appeared at Donington, considered the spiritual home of British rock, after they played at the first ever Monsters Of Rock festival at the venue in 1980, and they used the occasion to showcase tracks from their thunderous new double CD concept album Nostrodamus.

Priest, now reunited with singer Rob Halford, were formed in the early 1970s, drawing members from West Bromwich, Walsall and the Stafford area. Their line-up is Rob Halford (vocals), KK Downing (guitar) who lives in the Bridgnorth area, Glenn Tipton (guitar), Ian Hill (bass) and Scott Travis (drums).

They remain one of heavy metal's most successful bands, issuing such classic albums as 1980's British Steel, 1982's Screaming for Vengeance and 1990's Painkiller and rocking the singles charts with the likes of Breaking the Law, Living After Midnight and You've Got Another Thing Comin'.

Thrash pioneers Megadeth have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.

They were formed by guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1983 after he was forced out of Metallica and have released 11 studio album, including Rust In Peace, Countdown To Extinction and their most recent album United Abominations.

Megadeth have started work on a follow-up album, expected to be completed just before the Priest Feast tour starts.

Testament were one of the first thrash metal bands to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s.

Earlier this year, they reformed the original line up to record their ninth studio album, Formation of Damnation, which won them Best Album at the Metal Hammer 'Golden Gods' Awards this summer.

See our front-row photos of Judas Priest's Download set here.