犹太祭司（Judas Priest）是一个重金属乐团，在1968年成立于英国中部的西北方，靠近伯明罕市的地方。原始成员是吉他手肯尼斯·唐宁（Kenneth "K.K." Downing）与贝斯手伊恩·希尔（Ian Hill）。犹太祭师典型的成员包括唐宁、希尔，主唱罗伯·哈尔富德（Rob Halford）与吉他手格兰·提普顿（Glenn Tipton）。他们被认为对许多重金属乐手以及乐团具有影响力。在重金属乐团中他们受欢迎的程度以及地位使得他们获得了「金属上帝」的称号。至今为止在全世界的专辑销售量已超过三千五百万张。

Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. The band has sold over 45 million albums to date. MTV ranked them the second greatest metal band of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band struggled with indifferently-produced records, repeated changes of drummer and a lack of major commercial success or attention until 1980, when they adopted a more simplified sound on the album British Steel, which helped shoot them to rock superstar status. In ****, they were named as defendants in an unsuccessful lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on the song "Better By You, Better Than Me" had caused the suicide attempts of two young men.