Halford (band)

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Halford
Background information
Origin	Phoenix, Arizona
Genre(s)	Heavy metal
Years active	1999 - present
Label(s)	Metal God Entertainment
Associated acts	Judas Priest Fight 2wo
Website	Official Site
Members
Rob Halford Roy Z 'Metal Mike' Chlasciak Mike Davis Bobby Jarzombek
Former members
Patrick Lachman Ray Riendeau

Halford was formed in 2000 by then ex-lead Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford and is an attempt to return back to his old heavy metal roots after ending two previous projects: the street metal experience known as Fight, and the Industrial Metal experiment known as 2wo. Halford came back screaming with a vengeance; his first album Resurrection managed to make the cut into Martin Popoff's The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time as well as the songs "Silent Screams" & the title-track itself "Resurrection" ranking in the book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time. As an extra surprise for newly-found Halford fans, the track "The One You Love To Hate" guest features Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson which can be heard on the studio album Resurrection as well as his live offering Live Insurrection, which is considered one of modern metal's best live albums. "The One You Love To Hate" has also been performed live with Queensrÿche's Geoff Tate.

In 2002 Halford released his second studio album Crucible, although no live recordings have been officially released to promote this album. However, a high-quality soundboard bootleg titled "Live - From The Disney House Of Blues" was made available for download along with a special DEP at Robhalford.com in 2004. And this far is the only representation of live Crucible tracks. Although there are no live tracks, Halford did flurrish some countries (namely Japan) with bonus tracks; "She", "Fugitive", "Rock The World Forever" and "In The Morning". There is a video for the track "In The Morning" which can be watched at Robhalford.com.

[edit] Metal God Entertainment

On June 1st, 2006, Rob Halford announced that he would break away from the ill-fated Sanctuary Records and form a new record company, called Metal God Entertainment. With this new record company, the singer did not hesitate using his power and announced that he planned a release for some DVDs that contained footage of his solo outings, including a documentary on his departure from Judas Priest and the forming of Fight, as well as a video recording of his 2001 performance at Rock in Rio III.

On November 20th, 2006, Halford celebrated with the debut of the single set to be on the upcoming Halford IV album, titled "Forgotten Generation." This was well received by fans, and is the first Halford track to be released in four years since the reunion of Judas Priest.

The first wave of Halford releases came out on November 28th, 2006, which included remastered editions of his solo band's back catalogue and initially releasing them through Apple's iTunes. Fight also celebrated a release, an early recording entitled "K5- War of Words Demos," which were the demos that Rob Halford had recorded back when Fight had first formed. Lastly, a compilation was included, called "Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1," which not only had the fans' favorite Halford tunes, but also had Forgotten Generation and a new song called "Drop Out."

With his new record company, Rob has announced many plans for the future. He noted there are several other DVD possibilities as well as more releases from Fight, 2wo, and Halford, but he also pointed out that he wished to produce for many younger metal bands.

Lastly, Rob noted the follow-up to Crucible, entitled Halford IV, will be released under MGE, but will have to be held back until 2007 or later, due to Judas Priest's schedule of writing and recording their Nostradamus concept album.

[edit] Discography

• Resurrection (2000)
• Live Insurrection (2001)
• Crucible (2002)
• LIVE - Disney House Of Blues Concert (2004) (Available for free download from www.robhalford.com.)
• Metal God Essentials, Vol. 1 (2006) (Exclusive to iTunes)
• Silent Screams Singles EP (2006) (Exclusive to iTunes)
• Halford IV (working title) (2007/2008) - According to an interview on www.Glam-Metal.com (as of August 2006), the album is almost done.

Halford
Rob Halford | Ray Riendeau | Roy Z | Bobby Jarzombek | "Metal" Mike Chlasciak
Pat Lachman
Discography
Studio Albums: Resurrection | Crucible
Live Albums: Live Insurrection