Rock Band: You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
They’ve been promising full album downloads for Rock Band for a while now.
Well, it was worth the wait. The first album available will be Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance from 1982. What’s that got to do with us, you say?
Personally, I found all heavy metal pretty gay. The hair, the makeup, the clothes, the overt sexuality on a stage surrounded (in most cases) by only men. The whole genre was one big drag show for people who wouldn’t otherwise do drag.
However, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford “shocked” the world in 1998 when he came out as a bona fide gay. (His band members already knew.) All I remember about it is that my then boyfriend, a huge Judas Priest fan, wouldn’t stop talking about it.
Bonus gay-metal-gaming news: Halford will voice General Lionwhyte, a character with such luscious hair that he can use it to fly, in the upcoming game Brütal Legend.
For you youngsters, here’s the biggest US hit from Screaming for Vengeance, “You Got Another Thing Comin’”:
That guitar solo looks like it’ll be fun. I’m just now starting to play on Hard. Anyone up to Expert?
Look for it on the Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday and in the Playstation store on Thursday next week. Each track will be available for $1.99 (160 MS Points on the Xbox) or $14.99 (1200 MS Points) for the whole album
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
- “The Hellion”
- “Electric Eye”
- “Riding on the Wind”
- “Bloodstone”
- “(Take These) Chains”
- “Pain and Pleasure”
- “Screaming for Vengeance”
- “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”
- “Fever”
- “Devil’s Child”
April 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments of the song “Hats Off To Halford” by one of our favorite geek bands, Atom and His Package.
Two of my favorite lines:
1. “Chances of being gay are more than one in ten / that means there’s a forty percent chance / that one of the guys in pantera likes men”
and
2. “oh! I’d love for everyone in heavy metal to be homosexual / if not only to make the nazi fucking pricks in slayer a little uncomfortable”