JUDAS PRIEST

JUDAS PRIEST - New Music Next Year?




JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford recently told Gary Graff of
Billboard.com that the group, which recently wrapped its Epitaph World
Tour, is "ramping things up to get back into full writing and recording
mode" back in England. He and guitarist Glenn Tipton have "a tremendous
amount of material in the vaults already," and they expect new guitarist
Richie Faulkner, who replaced co-founder KK Downing in 2011, to make a
contribution as well.






"As we were proceeding on this world tour he was taking this little
mini-studio into his dressing room and we could hear him riffing away,"
Halford recalls. "It's going to be really thrilling moment to get
together in a new writing dimension, Glenn and myself and Richie,
putting all of these ideas together. We'll see what we can do over the
next couple of months, look at everything, lay it all out and then start
the hard work of picking out the best material."



Halford adds that his "gut feeling tells me we'll see something
next year" but doesn't want to commit to a firm timetable. "I'm of the
attitude it'll be ready when it's ready," he explains. "I don't think
we're going to slack off. We're determined to do a lot of work and be
just as dedicated as we've always been and take a lot of care and
attention with all the songs. We're not going to just bang this one out,
so to speak."


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