Cross-media picks for Judas Priest fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Fans of Judas Priest tend to seek out work that shares certain qualities: music treated as myth, outcasts who find purpose in heavy sound, bands forged under real pressure, and stories that take the darkness seriously rather than defusing it. The picks here span documentary, animation, fiction and games — united by that same commitment to intensity, whether the setting is a wasteland road trip, a death-metal government conspiracy, or a fantasy kingdom named Meta-llicana.
Film
The Ballad of Judas Priest
The 50-year story of Judas Priest — from the British steel industry to Metal Gods.
Film
Metal Lords
Two teenage misfits devote everything to metal glory and winning the Battle of the Bands.
Film
Heavy Metal 2000
A possessed miner's hunger for power and immortality drives this sci-fi animated feature.
Film
Heavy Metal
An evil orb terrorises a young girl with dark fantasy, eroticism and horror anthology stories.
Film
Rock Star
A tribute-band frontman gets kicked out, then lands the real gig with Steel Dragon.
Film
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
After their bassist quits, Metallica hire a therapist — a revealing documentary of a band in crisis.
Film
Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos
Exclusive interviews with Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slipknot and many more rock titans.
Film
Priest
A young priest's convictions are tested by extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Series
Hysteria!
A heavy metal band of outcasts capitalises on Satanic Panic hysteria after a quarterback vanishes.
Series
takt op.Destiny
Music is the light of civilisation — until a meteorite falls and monsters begin destroying it.
Series
Pistol
Working-class kids with no future threaten to bring down the government and change music forever.
Series
Metalocalypse
A death-metal band's influence grows so powerful that governments covertly plot to destroy it.
Series
Detroit Metal City
DMC's lead singer lives a double life as a dark demonic figure — played for comedy.
Series
BASTARD‼ -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
A volatile dark wizard is summoned to stop the resurrection of Anthrasax, God of Destruction.
Series
M3: The Dark Metal
Children who bonded in a dark void reunite years later to fight monsters from the same realm.
Series
I'm in the Band
A teenager joins washed-up 80s pop-metal band Iron Weasel and tries to push them back to glory.
Game
Double Kick Heroes
Blast zombies with a Gundillac and crush them with the power of metal on a wasteland road trip.
Game
Fracture
Four factions battle for control in a high-octane, highly destructible combat world.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred 80s rock tracks on a Gibson-shaped controller across retro venues and unlockable guitars.
Game
Guitar Hero
Strap on the SG controller and rock out to 30 classic rock anthems of all time.
Game
Metal: Hellsinger
Fight through Hell's fiercest domains as a half-human, half-demon obsessed with vengeance.
Game
Brutal Legend
A roadie transported to a real heavy-metal world built from the genre's own mythology and imagery.
Game
Twisted Metal
Four factions fight for one wish granted by the evil Calypso in a destructible combat arena.
Game
Rock Band 2
Master lead guitar, bass, drums and vocals together in the most ambitious music game to date.
Book
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose
Chronicles Black Sabbath's rise as the quintessential heavy metal band.
Book
Slash
A memoir from one of rock's greatest guitarists redefining sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Book
Without You
Bad luck, bad business decisions and depression drove Badfinger to a crushing end.
Book
Black metal
Twins play a Frost Axe album backwards and unlock a grim destiny tied to dark metal power.
Book
Kings of the wyld
Ageing mercenaries once feared across the Heartwyld reunite for one last impossible job.
Book
A child of a CrackHead
With Black Ice dead, survivors try to build a normal life — but the nightmares are not over.
Book
Tower Lord
Vaelin Al Sorna navigates a world of conflicting religions and the wars fought in their name.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Essays on rock performers from David Bowie and Lou Reed to Iggy Pop and the Clash.
Start with The Ballad of Judas Priest for the band's own 50-year origin story, then try Metallica: Some Kind of Monster for an unflinching look at a metal band under pressure, and Hysteria! for a series set during the Satanic Panic era of the 1980s.
Brutal Legend is the obvious answer — a roadie transported into a world built from heavy metal mythology. Metal: Hellsinger and Double Kick Heroes both reward playing in rhythm with a metal soundtrack, making aggression feel musical.
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose chronicles the rise of heavy metal's other founding giant. Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung collects essays on rock artists from David Bowie to Iggy Pop. Kings of the Wyld translates the band-as-legend concept into high fantasy.