Judas Priest‘s Rob Halford has admitted that he’s “still shook up” by the onstage heart emergency his bandmate suffered last month.During a performance of ‘Painkiller’ at the end of Judas Priest’s set on the final day of Louisville’s Louder Than Life festival, Faulkner suffered “an aortic aneurysm and complete aortic dissection”.The 41-year-old was rushed off stage and immediately underwent a 10-hour surgery, where five parts of his chest were replaced with “mechanical components”.“It was something very alien to me,” Faulkner told the Louisville Courier Journal, explaining that the band had done a lot of physical preparation prior to the incident. “We’re becoming stage fit, so for something like that to rear its head while I was playing,.
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