Damian Priest might now not have the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and even the assist of his secure, the Judgement Day, after dropping the title to Gunther this previous Saturday at SummerSlam because of a betrayal from his stablemate, Finn Balor. However whereas it stays to be seen how Judgement Day offers with Balor’s activate Priest or Dominik Mysterio’s activate Rhea Ripley, or how Priest will reply to dropping the title, he not less than has a style of music to get him by means of the down instances. And that style is none apart from heavy metallic.
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On a “WWE 24: Further” clip posted on YouTube, Priest’s love for metallic was explored by means of Priest and his childhood good friend, Charlie Corletta. Corletta revealed that Priest had beforehand been a fan of hip hop music, and would typically complain when Corletta performed metallic within the automotive whereas the 2 had been driving to highschool or wrestling exhibits. That modified, nonetheless, after Corletta performed Priest Metallica’s “From Whom the Bell Tolls,” asking Priest to image WWE Corridor of Famer The Undertaker popping out to the tune.
From that time ahead, Priest was hooked on the style, along with his brother later describing him going by means of a face the place he sported purple hair and bought a number of tattoos to emulate the heavy metallic look. The excessive level of Priest’s metallic fandom, nonetheless, got here when Corletta, a guitarist, was capable of play Priest to the ring for the 2020 version NXT Halloween Havoc, the place Priest defended the NXT North American Championship in opposition to Johnny Gargano, with footage of the doorway being proven. Although he misplaced the match, Priest described the second as a childhood dream come true for him and Corletta.
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