There are many reasons Rob Halford is described as the “Metal God” ‘because there are only a few who added to mint the image of the Heavy Metal the way he did. After Halford stood on top of JUDAS PRIEST for 19 years, he left the band at the beginning of 1992 to form the band FIFGT in the summer of the same year. A powerful, dynamic group that created a new and groundbreaking sound for the Metal Genre.‘FIGHT K5 - The War Of Words Demos’ are Rob Halfords private recordings with the band FRIGHT, created in the rehearsal time between July/August 1992. Metal devotees worldwide get the rare opportunity here to follow the original vocal and instrumental performances of the Metal God. The CD features 5 new tracks together with the original and demo recordings: Into the Pit, Nailed To The Gun, Now You Die (new), Life In Black, Kill It (Demo), Contortion, Forbidden (new, Demo), War Of Words, Psycho Suicide, Down (new), Vicious (Demo), Beast Denies (new, Demo), Laid To Rest (Demo), Jesus Saves (Demo), Dead Men Talk (new), For All Eternity.
On 14th December 2007 the DVD ‘War of Worlds - The Film’ was released, that documents a key moment in the history of Heavy Metal in a brilliant way. This DVD provides insights behind the scenes, manually filmed material of rehearsals and demo recordings, studio sessions, interviews as well as a complete concert, originated the five months FIGHT ‘War of Worlds / Nailed to the Road’ World Tour from 1993/94. The DVD contains additional Audio material from a live performance in Paris on 30th October 1993. Under the original songs are amongst others: Nailed To The Gun, Into The Pit, Little Crazy, Immortal Sin, War of Words, Light Comes Out Of Black, Laid To Rest, For All Eternity, Contortion, Life in Black, Kill It, Vicious and Reality, A New Beginning.
With the song ‘Light comes out of Black’ you can find a Sample from this DVD on Rob’s Homepage: http://www.robhalford.com/new/light.html
In June the digi pack ‘Into the Pit’ containing 3 CDs and 1 DVD will be released, which features the FIGHT albums ‘War of Worlds’, ‘Mutations’ and ‘A Small Deadly Space’ in remixed and re-mastered versions and is decorated with a DVD as bonus that contains 2 hours of previously unreleased material.
