Some documentaries are searing exposés of the unpalatable truth and some are unashamed celebrations of a beloved subject — and if you think “The Ballad of Judas Priest,” from co-directors and Priest fans Tom Morello and Sam Dunn, is going to be anything other than an ode to everything that’s great about the British headbangers, you’ve got another thing coming.
In a film compiled from interviews with the band, archive footage (some of which is previously unpublished), and interviews with luminaries including The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, actor Jack Black and the late Ozzy Osbourne, the name of the game is not formal innovation. And that’s just fine: Sometimes, it’s not desirable for the documentary to get in the way of the stories.
A pioneer of the heavy metal genre, Judas Priest formed in 1969 and have been going strong ever since, with a…
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