British heavy metal legends Judas Priest are closing in on wrapping up their 19th studio album. In a recent interview with The Entertainment Outlet, the band’s guitarist Richie Faulkner commented of their progress:
“We’re getting there. We’ve been trying to get it done. The first obstacle was the pandemic, because we couldn’t get together and do it as a group. And then when the pandemic restrictions were lifted, then we could go out on tour.
- Advertisement -So the next obstacle, if you wanna call it that, was the tour. So we had to go out and tour and record bits and pieces in between the tour legs. So we’ve got drums done, we’ve got guitars done, we’ve got the bass done. I think the main thing we have to do now is vocals.
So we’ve got the U.S. leg of the tour coming up, so Rob‘s [Halford, vocals] gotta protect his voice and use his voice sparingly before that. So maybe after that. I mean, we’ve got [dates in] the U.S. and we’ve got South America, which takes us into December. So maybe in the New Year we can start working on vocals.”
As for when you can expect to hear it, he added:
“It’s always tough to talk about timeframes, because, as we know, things change. But Rob always says, ‘It’s done when it’s done.’ There’s no point in rushing anything at this point in the band’s career. But it’s getting there — we’re working on it and it’s getting there.
And we’re using the time we’ve got. These days as well, we don’t need 18 months in a 10,000-square-foot studio in Fiji to do a record. The way things are these days, we can do it in a lot more economical way.
So we’re making technology work and we’re making all that work for us so we can get it done in the best way we can so we can get it out when we can. But it’ll be done when it’s done.”
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