GHOST scandal 🤦♂️ JUDAS PRIEST & SCORPIONS, IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, AS I LAY DYING & more | Metal News
Judas Priest and Scorpions are preparing something extraordinary for their fans, including the Scorpions 60th Anniversary Hannover concert and other announced joint appearances, such as at the Barcelona Rock Fest and 2025 Monsters of Rock Festival… so let’s week let’s talk about what Judas Priest are planning for us. And meanwhile Ghost announce 2025 world tour… yet their policy backfires.
Slayer redeem themselves in front of their fans and announce the first live date for 2025, and As I Lay Dying are pretty much no more… well, almost.
Iron Maiden enters the charts in the UK once again, new releases by Tribulation, Vola, Exodus, Anna Brunner of League of Distortion interview and much more in the new Metal Digest. Here you go!
00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Rock You Like a Painkiller
03:46 – As I Lay Dying managed to do it!
07:10 – The GHOST scandal
11:12 – Blitz releases (Exodus, Dorothy, Tribulation, No Cure, Vola)
14:50 – Slayer’s redemption
17:28 – League of Distortion Galvanize (Anna Brunner interview)
21:33 – Iron Maiden in the charts again
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@skk7593
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Exodus also did a great job with AC/DC's Overdose.
@flesheater5712
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Completely understand not being able to have someone who's disruptive in the band. But dukes being in Exodus was always just a let down. I honestly can't remember the last time I put on one of the albums that he's on it. While I just listened to tempo and persona within the last week.
@ltxr9973
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
No smartphones allowed probably means the band is cheating/using backing tracks and doesn't want there to be evidence of it.
@Spacecake-g3g
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
They banned cameras in the 80s so I dont see the issue with the phone issue.Im tired of watching a gig through the screen of some ass holes phone
@AnthonyAnthony-tk4ye
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
I don’t know what to say…. I always thought ghost was gay
@TheVingadorT
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
And here we are… in a time when common sense is a sacandal. Screw cellohones.
@sandoristar7597
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
No smartphone in the golden circle for sure, they should reserve a space for those who want to use their smartphone during the concert.
@Borg14
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
He's right, Over the last 20 years I have videos from all the concerts I have gone to. I haven't rewatched any of them. lol
@hughcaires7434
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Anyone thinks that what Tim Lambesis did cause the breakup of AILD?
@pecker7x
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
So it's ok if Tool does a phone ban but not Ghost. 😅
@Tonttu89
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Bit late to this video, but just wanted to say that I don't have a problem with no phones during the Ghost show. What I do have a problem with is the dynamic pricing that they had, which is the reason I didn't end up getting a ticket. The starting prices were already ridiculous, around 150€, and as I got the chance to buy them, they were over 250€. For a basic seat ticket.
@pyromaestro
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
Let's be honest most people stand there an watch the show thru the screen on their phones while recording so they can post social media clips when they get home 🤦🏻♂️ & it does ruin the experience for that person as well as those around them.
Ghost being such a theatrical band i truly think the phones ruin the experience.
I understand wanting to snap a photo then enjoy the show but folks can't practice such restraint these days it seems.
@DanielSavage-c6k
April 8, 2026 at 3:55 pm
I didn't hear anything about the band ghost
@elgomoriso5995
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Forbidding the use of a smartphone for a couple hours would do everyone good, plain and simple. And like everyone else is saying, enjoy the show rather than recording it.
@treetopflyer522
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I 100% agree with Ghost
@AlanKeiser-x5o
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Unfortunately times change and the bands will also in time give up and allow phones. As far as Ghost goes please do ban phones they suck and don't need more people falling in love with a bunch of losers.
@thepeoplesfrontofjudea71
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I'm gonna wait until the end like they want, then I'm turning on the flash and taking a thousand pictures
@stormczar
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Showing my age, but remember going to shows and WE DIDN'T HAVE PHONES? You'd lose a friend, and they were the driver that night? Panic set in and you'd find them on the way out? Geez folks, it's gonna be ok! Memories are better than crappy phone footage any day!
@-drakrats-
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Good for Ghost…cant stand the band but can get behind their no phones policy. Theres no reason to video bits of concerts you're never going to eatch again. Its annoying enough for people in the audience. Its even worse for the band to see a ton of retarded teens waving their phones in the air.
@ShaneKixmiller
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I don’t care if you paid five bucks to go see ghost or any other band, you should be able to film it and take pictures. You are a paying customer and you should be able to enjoy the experience anyway you wish. There’s a lot of things to be factored into it. What if it’s your favorite band of all time and it’s your first and maybe only time ever seeing them? What if it’s your first concert ever? There are many reasons to want to document a concert and most of them are purely for personal enjoyment. Any videos that are posted on YouTube or any other platform would only help to increase the groups popularity. this is a bit ridiculous
@robgasper8521
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
A real conundrum regarding Ghost. I don’t like the rule on phones but I actually don’t mind it at the same time. But in the end it’s just one of several factors that has retired me from concerts.
@teknical100
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Satanic symbols everywhere but yes the real problem is mobile phones.
@royjean-yves3118
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I don't even bring my cell to a show anyway.
@Brando-Lee3725
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Taking a few pictures is one thing, but filming whole songs and gigs is another. But with smartphones you cant tell what EVERYBODY in the crowd is doing with the phones. So it would have to be all or nothing. Bring a polaroid camera for pictures??? If they still make those things LOL !!!
@kencoakley8366
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Back in 1980, there was a triple bill at The Orpheum in Boston of Def Leppard, Scorpions and Judas Priest. My brother in law was a bouncer at that show. I didn't make it to that show, but I went , in 1981, to The Orpheum, to see Judas Priest with Iron Maiden (with the late Paul Di'Anno and Clive Burr) on Priest's Point Of Entry and Maiden's Killers tour.
@dikans2143
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Just dont buy expensive tickets, go support small bands
@georgehartman4157
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I never take my phone out at shows but I also don't want to pay ridiculous ticket prices to have someone tell me what I can or can't do. Dumb rules like this are not in the spirit of metal or rock and roll at all. Honestly there are so many more important issues and problems with concerts and the industry these days and this is what Ghost is going to focus on? I like Ghost, would love to see them live but I'll pass on this. No thanks.
@Openkasket-n1
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Ghost is going to open a portal for Satan…they do not want any recordings of this….that's what I heard😅
@kurtflint64
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Hooray for cell phone free concerts
@vickiestelzner6252
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
works for Tool
@lisamann
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
I think Ghost should consider the average age of many metal fans… a lot of us are in the "sandwich generation"- people who have children and elderly parents to care for. For a lot of us, we have to arrange caregivers just to get the chance to go to a concert at all, and it's hard not to worry if you can't be contacted easily.
@HabsAndHeavyMetal
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
How many people besides myself are confused that Ghost are called a metal band. They are keyboard heavy melodic pop. Am I alone in this? As for the cell phones, this is not the 70s anymore when you couldn’t bring a camera. Cells are part of culture and should be used at the show if the ticket purchaser so desires.
@dimitrisjimmygtheodorou8478
April 8, 2026 at 3:56 pm
NO PHONES…..like the good old days ,,,,when phones were only for phone calls….