Judas Priest: The guitarist underwent an aortic aneurysm on stage

The description of their guitarist is shocking Judas Priest, Richie Faulkner, for the experience he had on stage a few days ago, when upest aortic aneurysm on stage and almost to die.

Faulkner was playing “PainkillerDuring the “Louder Than Life” festival in Kentucky, when his thoracic aorta broke, filling his chest with blood. According to Faulkner, his doctor told him that those who get it in this area usually do not get to the hospital alive.

“Watching the video from the festival, I see in my face the difficulties and anxiety I felt while playing Painkiller as the aortic rupture occurred and blood began to fill my chest. Now that I know all this, I actually see a dying man on stage. “According to my doctor, he suffered an aortic aneurysm rupture and, as he told me, people usually do not arrive at the hospital alive after that,” Judas Priest guitarist described in a letter to Rolling Stone magazine.

The incredible thing is that Faulkner completed the concert and then was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he underwent open heart surgery, during which some parts of the chest were “replaced with mechanical parts”. «I am literally made of metalHe says with humor.

“I have always been grateful for the opportunities I had. I have always considered myself the luckiest person playing my favorite music with my favorite band to my favorite people around the world. And today being able to write these words is the greatest gift of all, “he writes.

“If you think about what would have happened if the hospital had not been so close or if the show had lasted longer, it might have gone crazy but I stand by the fact that I am lucky to be alive,” said Richie Faulkner.

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