Judas Priest rocker Rob Halford has opened up about his choice to go public with his diagnosis of prostate cancer, saying he hopes to encourage other men to get checked out for the disease.
Speaking to Spain’s Mariskal Rock, Halford gave an update on his cancer battle after discussing it in his book Confess, saying “It’s in remission. I count my blessings — thanks to God. It was a time when… You know, timing is everything in rock and roll and heavy metal.
“And, of course, this was going on during the pandemic — the initial stages of the pandemic — so the world was completely closed down.
Halford continued, “Priest would have been on a bit of a hiatus anyway, because we had just been around the world three times with Firepower, so we were gonna be on a kind of a break although we were writing for the new album. And so I …