Metal News: IRON MAIDEN & JUDAS PRIEST’s gift to fans 🔥 STRYPER interview, DREAM THEATER tour & more
Iron Maiden are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Powerslave with a new vinyl release (as promised, here’s the link – https://amzn.to/3XrBzhH), and Judas Priest have finally reissued Rocka Rolla the way it was always supposed to sound like… a dream 50 years in the making!
Jon Bon Jovi saves a woman on the bridge, Slayer are preparing something incredible during their reunion live shows scheduled in 2024, and the vocalist of the legendary Stryper Michael Sweet joined us for an interview about the new Stryper album When We Were Kings. Meanwhile, Dream Theater make another announcement… but still not about a new album, but rather about a new Dream Theater North American tour in 2025 titled “An Evening With Dream Theater”.
Megadeth’s drummer Dirk Verbeuren speaks out against a fashion brand that’s using visuals from well-known metal bands without their permission and is being supported by a bunch of Metal musicians. New releases from Mastodon and Lamb of God, Flotsam & Jetsam & more. Metal is alive and well, so let’s see what keeps it going today! Here you go!
00:00 – Intro
00:23 – Dream Theater on tour
03:03 – Slayer on fire
05:38 – Iron Maiden’s celebrations
09:58 – Megadeth against fashion pirates
13:45 – New Stryper album (Michael Sweet interview)
17:07 – Judas Priest finally did it
20:40 – Blitz releases
24:41 – Jon Bon Jovi saves woman on bridge
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@MetalPilgrim
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
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@skeletorment
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
The top half of that hoodie was taken straight from the North American cover of Diablo II
@hipidipi20157max
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
I like Priest and Maiden but dont like Dream Theater and hate the name. Release BluRay concerts of Live Ater Death , Maiden England and Unleashed in the East or Priest Live or something in HD. Original RockaRolla is very good but you could give it a Defenders sound.
@kencoakley8366
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Being 58 years old, I remember Iron maiden releasing 12" singles with the single on one side and a couple of covers on the. B side. They would also release them in picture disc form. Iron Maiden were one of what I used to call "Bridge Bands " because they appealed to both Thrash Metal fans (like myself) and the glam fans, who were our nemeses. Other bridge bands were Judas Priest, Ozzy osbourne, Dio, Kiss, Accept, Scorpions and Obsession.
Oddly enough, I saw Iron Maiden only once at the Orpheum Theater in Boston in 1981. They were opening for Judas Priest. Maiden were touring to promote "Killers" and Priest were promoting "Point Of Entry". I was in the front row. I saw Maiden with Paul Di'Anno, but not with Bruce Dickinson. I saw Priest again the night before I graduated from high school. They were promoting their worst album ever, "Turbo" and Dokken opened for them.
@themobseat
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
What's the lineup of Slayer going to be for the new shows?
@MichaelTrentColvin
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
What did I listen to this week ?¿?
You're mama screaming my name in ecstacy 😂
@VampireJack10
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Jon Bon Jovi is a class guy – yeah, he has a bit of an ego, but it's probably deserved due to the success he has had.
Gotta admit, for 12 year old me, back in 1986, it was Bon Jovi that started my metal journey, and it was because of JBJ I wanted to grow my hair for the first time.
I started with Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Kiss, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, but soon discovered Metallica and Master Of Puppets……which would eventually (still in the 80s) lead to Slayer, Bathory, Death……
I'm now, as a 50 year old, digging bands like Opeth, Emperor, Godgory, Gojira, Agathodaimon, Lord Belial etc, so my tastes got heavier!
I still have a soft spot for Bon Jovi though as my favourite – and I don't care who knows!
@VampireJack10
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
For all we know, those who "designed" the new metal gear knock offs could well be metalheads who are using "their" influences on the clothing – although the price is over the top.
As a metalhead I don't care if the mainstream want to dress like us – it means they think we're cool.
Celebrity wearing a Marduk or Mayhem shirt? Great, it brings more attention to those bands and could get them new fans.
I'm 50, so these days I just don't give a flying fuck.
@bobb6313
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Always thought Stryper and Slayer together would be cool. The ultimate Heaven and Hell Tour!
@cbr9914
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
i love the production and mix on the original rockarolla. it sounds like a 70s hard rock album, which is exactly what it is. it's way better than the murky sad wings mix (and the drumming on rocka rolla destroys the drumiing on sad wings…hinch had chops and swagger.) as good as the songs on vengeance and defenders are, both albums sound like absolute shit
@Fletcher_Buller
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Don’t care about the slayer reunion. The setlist will suck and only a few songs from the 83-94 era. Kerry King is a fucking joke completely out of touch with what real metal is nowadays. He thinks lamb of god and Nu Metal/Metalcore shit is the future of metal so fuck him!!!
@dereknovaes4217
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Bought the Powerslave album but I agree, some expanded version with demos etc wouldve been fun!
@kennethnielsen3864
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
I think it's a ripoff with all the re release of old albums for the 58 time.
@kennethnielsen3864
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Thanks for sharing.
@jimmyjambhere
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
The yellow vinyl Somewhere in time was already released 2 months ago through Walmart
@WAR2019-R
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Stryper for STEELFEST 2025!
@jaymzb.1713
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
As long as Priest's re-recorded Rocka Rolla sounds like Sin After Sin mated with Killing Machine (Hell Bent for Leather), I think we'll all be happy with it.
A serious note to Judas Priest: "Please DONT mess around and re-record your masterpiece Sad Wings Of Destiny.. Leave it as it is, a truly EPIC album needs no adjusting at all. You can't fix perfection!" Even the album cover is perfect🤘.
🤘☮️
@PeteHawthorne
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Flotsam & Jetsam are such an underrated band! m/
@makouras
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
I'd like it if you did a comparison video for the new release of Sabbath's Forbidden.
@DollyDoom666
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
my Major in Marketing and Design class was women's fashion, Balenciaga has terrible fashion ideas. Its a STupid Rich people thing
@BlindGordie
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
I had listened to both the original and remixed and remastered versions of Rocka Rolla on Friday and I love them both for what they are, as they have their own charms. The new version reminds me of what Priest would sound like in 1980 to 1982 in the studio and that is not a bad thing. Altho, I like the original for its sound of the time and I am happy with them both.
The other song I have been listening to this week is the newly remixed version of The Night Comes Down by Queen and as a fan of their early albums the most, I am looking forward to hearing the rest of what is to come, with its own newly rebuilt version of the debut album and the goodies which come with it. Now that I think of it, I wish that Rocka Rolla was released in a standard and deluxe version, with the latter containing live versions of songs from the album, as they were played recently and if available, back then too. Anyway, great job with these videos and I am looking forward to Wednesday, but I also have to get through Monday with iOS 18.
@aaroncoroner5915
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
First off, it's NOT a Reunion, the band retired from touring and making new music, they did not break-up, the entity Slayer still exists as a Band in business. As Kerry King said he looks at these FEW shows as a 'Celebration'.
@orwil7592
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Get Stryper in wacken
@MikoDarkblade
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
Slayer reunion sounds more like a King-Arraya reunion… Hanneman is gone (RiP) and they hate Lombardo…. So… what's the point?!
@judaspriestly88
May 6, 2026 at 6:45 am
The last time I saw Slayer was when they played with Megadeth doing their 30th anniversary of Rust in Peace. Megadeth opened and were so good that my uncle (another huge metalhead) and I walked out after 20 minutes of Slayer so we could beat the traffic 😅… Megadeth was WAY too good that night, they should have been the headline act.
Of course Testament was opening the whole show, like they do EVERYONE, so that was probably the 30th time I've skipped them, but since they open for literally everyone here on the East Coast, I've already seen them about 30 times anyway, so no loss there lol