Judas Priest Thread

[mrlee]

the album wont be a priest album if they dont include the lyric. "steel"

[hellfirecan]

I was just listening to "Blood Red Skies" in the car...man Halford has got some pipes on him.

[Malcolm]

Frontman Joey Eppard of Woodstock, NY's THREE (3) ? who supported German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS on several dates in Canada earlier this fall ? told the "D?menti?llement V?tre" program on Qu?bec City's CKRL 89.1FM during an interview two weeks ago that his band might be involved in a SCORPIONS/JUDAS PRIEST tour in 2008 in North America.

[hellfirecan]

cool news...thanks

[seely]

Only recently got into them, but think they're awesome!

[Malcolm]

Judas Priest has begun mixing its new concept album about the legendary 16th century prophet Nostradamus, singer Rob Halford revealed during an appearance this past Friday (November 16) on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show. In addition, JUDAS PRIEST will make an announcement in the next couple of weeks about tour dates for 2008. According to Halford, the upcoming tour will include shows where the entire "Nostradamus" album will be performed as well as concerts featuring the band's classic songs.

Regarding the direction of the material and how whole concept for the record came about, Halford recently told PureGrainAudio.com, "It sounds absolutely fucking amazing and that's not me inflating it, it is genuinely spectacular. So we're still carrying on with that and it should be out sometime in 2008. The idea (for the record) came from our manager Bill Curbishley, because we were ready to go in and do another studio record, but Bill came to see us towards the end of the 'Angel of Retribution' tour, he came to Russia, we were playing Russia and we had lunch with him and he said, 'Look, I have this idea.' Bill manages THE WHO, you know, Pete and Roger, and Bill was behind the enormous success of 'Tommy' and he said, 'I just think that you know, maybe you should think about this possibility of doing a concept album and I've been thinking about this guy Nostradamus.' And as soon as he brought the name up, I'm like, I'm there, let's go, you don't have to say anything else. I knew something of him already like everybody does about the books that you read about him, or on the Internet or on TV, documentaries and I thought wow, this is absolutely brilliant so that's where it all came about from."

On the rumors that "Nostradamus" will be a double album, Halford said, "It is a rumor still. I mean, there is an enormous amount of material and you can only put so much on a single CD so you know, we're trying to tell the story of his life and we're trying to cover every significant moment of his life and I think you know, when we got it all recorded, that's when you're faced with the reality of how much time you got and how much a CD will afford you and the timing of it all. So we just ask everyone to bear with us and as we actually get into the mixing mode, we'll be able to be more definitive and tell everybody exactly what we've got, but we just want to make sure we tell his life story so we'll do whatever it takes to do that."

[DEAD HORSE]

wow, great news, thnx for the update

[justincrowe]

Judas Priest has begun mixing its new concept album about the legendary 16th century prophet Nostradamus, singer Rob Halford revealed during an appearance this past Friday (November 16) on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show. In addition, JUDAS PRIEST will make an announcement in the next couple of weeks about tour dates for 2008. According to Halford, the upcoming tour will include shows where the entire "Nostradamus" album will be performed as well as concerts featuring the band's classic songs.

awesome! can't wait for the new record 

[Malcolm]

"The JUDAS PRIEST machine will be rolling out on the road again next year. The tour starts in June 2008 ? dates to be announced shortly! Please note that only when dates are announced here on our website are they actually official and confirmed!!"

As previously reported, JUDAS PRIEST is among the bands who are rumored to be playing next year's Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 4-7, 2008 in in S?lvesborg, Sweden.

JUDAS PRIEST's upcoming tour will include shows where the group's entire upcoming "Nostradamus" album (based on the legendary 16th century prophet Nostradamus) will be performed as well as concerts featuring the band's classic songs, singer Rob Halford revealed during a November 16, 2007 appearance on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show.

[seely]

Judas Preist = 

I have 'Painkiller' and 'Metal Works: 1973-91', and ther rule!   

Roll on the next tour! 

[Malcolm]

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST will headline the first installment of this year's Trondheim Rock Festival, which is set to take place June 6-7, 2008 at Lerkendal Stadium in Trondheim, Norway.

[Malcolm]

Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

On the status of the new JUDAS PRIEST CD, "Nostradamus":

Halford: I've been away for about a month while Glenn [Tipton] and K.K. [Downing] have been doing their final guitar overdubs. We're about to start mixing, so I'm going to see the boys in a few days time and then we'll be rockin' and roaring through the mixing sessions.

Metal-Rules.com: So your vocals are already laid down for the new album then?

Halford: Yeah, I completed those some time back. Everybody does their bits as you go along and normally I don't do my vocal work until the bulk of the recording has been done which is how it turned out and rhythm guitars and everything were laid and all the other instruments, but Glenn and K.K. have just been burning the midnight metal oil and getting all of their leads completed, so I'll be excited to hear what they've been doing. Then we get on with the mixing and the mastering and get it out for next year when the tour kicks off.

Metal-Rules.com: So we can probably expect something before the summer then, I take it?

Halford: I think so, yeah. I mean, you know the way it goes. Most bands hit the road when they've got a new release out there. It'll have been a couple of years since we've been back on the world circuit.



Metal-Rules.com: When JUDAS PRIEST does get out on the road again, is there any chance that any material from the two albums that you weren't on ? "Jugulator" and "Demolition" ? will be performed live?

Halford: Yeah and I've said this before that those two records are as important in the PRIEST world as everything else. Glenn, K.K. and I have talked about this and I'd welcome it. I think it would be an exciting moment for me to cover the tracks that my mate Tim ["Ripper" Owens] worked on while he was with the band. So again, anything is possible. Each time when we put a set list together, it gets increasingly difficult because we've got so many songs from so many records that we just have to look at the set list and figure out what the favorites are and go from there. Again, PRIEST fans around the world are always putting ideas upon what they'd like to hear us do, but I think it would be kind of fresh to pick maybe one or two tracks from both of those records and just give it the Metal God touch.

[Killingmachine]

the album wont be a priest album if they dont include the lyric. "steel"

  , same case about the liric "Heavy Metal" in Manowar's songs...( or the liric "Fuck" in old Guns n' Roses songs)...

I miss new music of Judas Priest, I want Nostradamus right now!!.....

[CheapJon]

I'm thinking about trying to get into priest..

do they have one album that i absolutely must check out or they have some "best of" compilation?

[norway]

I'm thinking about trying to get into priest..

do they have one album that i absolutely must check out or they have some "best of" compilation?

Yeah, a double cd you should get into

I don't like the  (really) early stuff so much.

[Killingmachine]

I'm thinking about trying to get into priest..

do they have one album that i absolutely must check out or they have some "best of" compilation?

Judas Priest is one of band more important  in the history of rock, specially in its musical genre, Heavy Metal, though in the earlier time they play Hard rock, they name as Heavy Metal band.
in my opinion , "British Steel" (1980), "Killing Machine" (1978), "Screaming for Vengeance"(1982) are the best record Priest ever, but also there are another records as well as they, for instance, "Sad wings of desteny" (a very hard rocker sound, 1976), "turbo" (1986) and above all "Painkiller", considered a masterpiece in the Heavy Metal history...

if you prefer a "best of" compilation, I recommend you this one...




http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1087748/a/Metal+Works+'73-'93.htm

[Doc Emmett Brown]

I really dig the Defenders of the Faith album -  Jawbreaker and The Sentinel are classics!

The last album Angel of Retribution has some good songs too - I like 'Worth Fighting For'.


and sometimes I also like listening to Turbo Lover      

[Malcolm]

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST have scheduled the following dates:

June 02 - Icehall -Helsinki, Finland
June 05 - Sweden Rock - S?lvesborg, Sweden
June 07 - Trondheim Rock Festival - Trondheim, Norway
June 08 - Bergenshall - Bergen, Norway
June 11 - Rockhal - Luxembourg
June 17 - Cez Arena - Ostrava, Czech Republic
June 23 - Philipshalle - Dusseldorf, Germany
June 24 - Zenith - Munich, Germany
June 27 - Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belgium
June 28 - Bang Your Head - Balingen, Germany
June 29 - Gods Of Metal - Bologna, Italy
July 01 - Smederevo Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
July 02 - Dom Sportova, Zagreb, Croatia
July 03 - Liberec Arena, Prague, Czech Republic

[Adler_Sorum_Brain]

Gonna see them at Sweden Rock..

[ClintroN]

'Angel of Retribution'  is a dame great album man!!!

i never get tired of it