Rob Halford described the following Judas Priest album as “adventurous” and mentioned it was as a result of arrive by 2024 on the newest.
Monitoring has already begun on the follow-up to 2018’s Firepower, and by the point it’s launched, the band may have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
“It’s so troublesome to speak about music, isn’t it?” Halford mirrored in a current interview with Metal Crypt. “All of us musicians, we go, ‘Oh, it’s the best factor we’ve ever achieved, man. The album simply rips colossally, and the drumming is like peeling the pores and skin off your face, and the singing is simply so screaming.’ What’s that?”
He famous that “it’s not Firepower Quantity Two, that’s all I can say. Should you take a look at Judas Priest from Rocka Rolla to Firepower, the whole lot in between has acquired its character and its id. That’s what we’re engaged on with this one. I feel adventurous is a phrase we have by no means used earlier than in attempting to elucidate the content material. It’s adventurous. “And now individuals are going, ‘What does he imply by that? Is it going to sound like Dolly Parton?’ You’ll have to attend and see. It’s nice, man. It’s good. It’s strong. It’s a really, superb robust follow-up, as they name it, to the final one.”
Halford made one other reference to nation legend Parton, saying he was decided to satisfy her when each acts obtain their Rock Corridor induction – even when she has no thought who he’s. “I’m going to see what desk she is sitting at. I’m simply going to run to the desk and do the satan’s horns factor,” he mentioned. “It’s the one strategy to do it. I can’t smile sweetly. I’ve acquired to stay my tongue out and my horns up.”
Extra significantly, he added: “Whenever you’re within the firm of your fellow musicians, we’ve a lot in widespread as a result of writing a metallic track isn’t any completely different to writing a rustic track. What I imply about that, is you begin the day with nothing, and on the finish of the day in case your creativity’s working you could possibly have one thing very particular. … All of us stay the identical sort of life: the studio, on the highway and the dressing room. It’s all the identical, man. It’s all the identical. The music’s completely different, however the life is similar.
“I’m wanting ahead to assembly as many individuals as I presumably can as a result of I like assembly folks and I like speaking about music, it doesn’t matter what sort of music it’s.”
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