Judas Priest have released a brand-new music video for "War," off of their recently released new LP, Nostradamus. The video, which was premiered by the Headbanger's Blog, is a computer-animated spectacle which doesn't present even a glimpse of the legendary British metal band, but rather focuses on great apocalyptic imagery. Watch it for yourself:

Metal took an interesting turn in 1977 as it inherited influence from another popular new genre.

You guessed it. 1977 was the year that our beloved punk rock took the U.K. by storm. It was the year of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned and The Stranglers. Punk was essentially rock music stripped to its barest elements and given a major dose of social angst and unrest. It arised in resistance to the "overproduced arena rock" of the day, which, in their minds, included heavy metal.

You would think that Judas Priest would have done everything that there is to do in heavy metal by this point, but apparently there was one mountain left to climb: a concept album. The legendary "metal gods" from Birmingham have served up a whopping 23-track platter of pure metallic epicness in the form of Nostradamus, a concept album that chronicles the life and prophecies of the famous 16th-century French apothecary of the same name.

Strange goings-on during the Iron Maiden performance at the "world's most famous arena," Madison Square Garden, on Sunday. Midway through the song "Powerslave," the sound completely cut out, leaving the band standing on stage with their hands in their pockets. That's when the fun started...

From their first release in 1970 to Sabotage in 1975, Black Sabbath were the undisputed kings of heavy metal. That label became disputed in 1976 when Judas Priest released an album that was far superior in every way to Black Sabbath's offering of the same year.