and now K.K. Downing has provided a statement of his own. Downing, the longtime Judas Priest guitarist and K.K.s’ Priest leader who grew up near Black Sabbath’s home base of Birmingham ...

Hey, did you know that guitarist K. K. Downing is very mad at Judas Priest? True story! In fact, K. K. really hasn’t missed an opportunity to tell the world how pissed off he is at his former band.

K.K. Downing retired from touring with Judas Priest in 2011, so it doesn’t come as either “shocking” or “stunning” to me that the band didn’t ask him to step in when his former batterymate Glenn ...

and guitarists K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton, all of whom collaborated on many of Priest's best-known songs -- pushed screaming guitars on top of thundering rhythms to help form the music's ...