On the corner of Moreland and Euclid Avenues in the heart of Little Five Points, where The Corner Tavern lived for nearly 20 years, one of the former establishment’s longtime bartenders and kitchen managers Mikey Braswell has taken the helm of a new metal bar called Halford’s. Named after the English, leather-and-stud-clad lead vocalist of Judas Priest, Rob Halford, the bar is an alter to the metal gods.
There’s the central mural, painted on a large wall across from the bar by Atlanta Renegade tattoo artist Mike Dietz, inspired by Judas Priest’s “Painkiller” album cover. The bathroom walls are plastered in “Heavy Metal” comic book covers, concert posters and pictures of Ozzy Osbourne, lit in sultry hues of red and blue. The menu pays tribute to metal bands, like the Slay Slay burger after Slayer, the Type-O dog, after doom metal band Type O Negative and the Lemmy steak, after the lead singer of Motörhead. A carnival claw machine will soon be installed as a nod to the lead singer of one of Braswell’s favorite death metal bands, Cannibal Corpse, who, though tough in appearance with a meaty neck and the nickname “Corpsegrinder,” is also known for winning teddy bears from claw machines to donate to kids. It’s the type of bar that if you know, you know.
