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 Defend from earlier this yr. 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 all the time looks like he is out of concepts as soon as a report is full.
“Who is aware of? If this one’s effectively obtained and there are sufficient concepts creatively to do one other one, then it is doable. We’ll have to attend and see, actually. At this second, I am out of concepts. I’ve bought nothing left. That all the time occurs with me, after which I begin arising with issues. However the place are these concepts going to return from? I do not know.
“However in some way, someplace alongside the road, you begin build up concepts and songs. They arrive from someplace. After Firepower I used to be out of concepts after which we in some way created Invincible Defend. We’ll see what the long run holds.”
Halford then chimed in, saying he is undecided what else Judas Priest can be doing once they get off tour… and once more, 19 albums simply is not a good quantity.
“I believe Richie is an limitless effectively of guitar concepts, and [Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton] has vaults of riffs we have by no means used, and a great riff will final without end. It is all about perspective and presentation. If you’ve bought all that sorted out, why cease? There is a fireplace that is actually burning proper now and it has been even earlier than Invincible Defend 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 all the time maintained its relevance and significance in metallic by exhibiting 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 via along with his coronary heart situation. I am thriving after what I went via with my most cancers situation. If that is not the embodiment of metallic by no means dying and metallic by no means surrendering, then I do not know what’s.
“There’s this significance in our lives as musicians to by no means quit and by no means give in, to additionally maintain pushing forward and going towards the metallic torch on the horizon. That is what drives us.”
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