Judas Priest has racked up 19 full-length albums over the previous 50 years (sure – Rocka Rolla was launched in 1974), with their most up-to-date being Invincible Protect from earlier this 12 months. However do not count on that to be the ultimate Judas Priest album – Rob Halford is aiming for a pleasant, even 20.
In an interview with Guitar World, Halford and Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner lightheartedly talked about if they have one (or extra) albums left in ’em. Lengthy story brief, who is aware of! It is undoubtedly not out of the query. Faulkner began off answering the query, noting that he at all times appears like he is out of concepts as soon as a document is full.
“Who is aware of? If this one’s properly acquired and there are sufficient concepts creatively to do one other one, then it is attainable. We’ll have to attend and see, actually. At this second, I am out of concepts. I’ve received nothing left. That at all times occurs with me, after which I begin developing with issues. However the place are these concepts going to return from? I do not know.
“However by some means, someplace alongside the road, you begin increase concepts and songs. They arrive from someplace. After Firepower I used to be out of concepts after which we by some means created Invincible Protect. We’ll see what the longer term holds.”
Halford then chimed in, saying he is undecided what else Judas Priest could be doing after they get off tour… and once more, 19 albums simply is not a good quantity.
“I feel Richie is an limitless properly of guitar concepts, and [Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton] has vaults of riffs we have by no means used, and a superb riff will final without end. It is all about perspective and presentation. If you’ve received all that sorted out, why cease? There is a hearth that is actually burning proper now and it has been even earlier than Invincible Protect left the launch pad. Proper now, we’re centered on touring for the album, however after we end touring, what are we going to do?
“Effectively, Priest has at all times maintained its relevance and significance in steel by displaying you what we are able to do subsequent. And the opposite factor is, I do not like 19. It is an odd quantity. I am an ‘even quantity’ sort of man. I like 20.
“However the backside line is it is completely wonderful that we’re nonetheless on the market. Glenn‘s nonetheless thriving as a musician, and so is Richie after what he went by together with his coronary heart situation. I am thriving after what I went by with my most cancers situation. If that is not the embodiment of steel by no means dying and steel by no means surrendering, then I do not know what’s.
“There’s this significance in our lives as musicians to by no means surrender and by no means give in, to additionally maintain pushing forward and going towards the steel torch on the horizon. That is what drives us.”
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