Judas by Fozzy

Judas, the seventh studio album from Fozzy, came out on Century Media on October 13, 2017, and it lives up to the band's own sales pitch: Chris Jericho once described Fozzy as the bastard child of Metallica and Journey, and here the riffs hit hard while the choruses aim for the cheap seats. Jericho sings, and Rich Ward, who co-founded the band in Atlanta, handles the guitar.

The title track went out first, in May, and became a minor radio hit with real staying power: 26 weeks on the Mainstream Rock chart topping out at No. 5, a No. 1 on Sirius/XM Octane and a gold certification in 2022. It found a second home in the ring, too, as the theme for NXT TakeOver: Chicago, and Jericho walks out to it in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Elite Wrestling. "Drinkin' with Jesus" and "Painless" were streaming before the album dropped, and "Painless" became the theme for NXT TakeOver: Chicago II the next year.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.