Metalheads love Judas Priest, but frontman Rob Halford might love them more.

Halford told ‘The Sound Lab,’ “Everything that we love and cherish about Priest is driven by our worldwide heavy metal community. There’s nothing better than having us all together in the same venue. Just look at each other and you just know that love and that passion that we share is a real experience, a real living thing.”

He added, “We’re very proud to have been a part of that development. I’ve been calling us the heavy metal community for as long as I can remember. And we’re just so strong, and we’re so proud, and we love our metal. And that’s what makes us unique.”