Judas Priest and MotorHead Dive Into the Fashion Industry

July 2, 7:32 PMPhoenix Music Beat ExaminerLauren Wise

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Legendary metal Gods Rob Halford of Judas Priest, and Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister have teamed up with different clothing companies to bust out their own iconic fashion style.

This seemingly peculiar addition to the fashion world is no surprise, and nothing new. Other heavy metal and rock artists have joined with clothing companies, particularly surfing brands, including AC/DC, Metallica, Wolfmother, and others.

Motorhead's collection produced by Hurley consists of items such as hoodies, jeans, T-shirts and hats, and provides a variety of styles. Of course, the famous Motorhead logo graces the clothing, but there are also the band's favorite quotes, plenty of ace of spades graphics, and guitars, screened onto the clothing with a vintage appearance mixed with old-school motorcycle fashion.

Judas Priest's Rob Halford created the clothing line Metal God Apparel in addition to a recording company with the same ironic name. Halford's always been known for his well put-together on-stage outfits, which flow in the same style as Motorhead. He chose to focus his fashion design sense on what the consumer wants out of a rock and roll lifetsyle, and tailored the clothes to fit this.

Metal God Apparel was supposed to launch sometime in late spring or early summer, but production has been on delay and products are scheduled to start shipping on July 6. His selection of bold colorful shirts include names such as Savior, Pray For Rock N Roll, Steel Wings, Divinity, and Eternal Chaos. Currently his line only offers soft comfortable long and short sleeved shirts, but Halford assures fans that he is going to eventualy add more work to the collection from his over-flowing heavy metal plate.

Motorhead's collection is not yet available to fans, and the exact date of the launch is shrouded in mystery (not surprising antics from Lemmy Kilmister).

Heavy metal has done a good job at slowly seeping into mainstream of society, music and fashion, to prove that heavy metal music is not as shunned as it used to be. Mainstream pop artists do collaborations with heavier musicians, while heavy musicians do covers of mild songs such as "You Spin Me Round" (Dope) and "In The Air Tonight" (Nonpoint).  Now leather, studs and accessories are hitting runways produced by some of the heaviest bands of all time.

Keep an eye out for even more heavy metal and rock bands that join the fashion forces, providing even more influence to see that even lovers of the double-neck guitar, double bass, and double whiskys still like to dress like their icons and actually do care how they look.