Judas Priest Announces New Album In 2017, Tour In 2018

Judas Priest have been rocking audiences since 1969, and in 2017-2018, the fully intend on doing it some more.

In an interview with Sweetwater, guitarist Richie Faulkner dropped some big Judas Priest news for the next couple of years. "We've just been in the studio for a couple of months putting songs together. We haven't started the recording process yet, but we're recording demos," says Faulker. "We're recording songs that work without the production the save them, if you know what I mean. But the core value... We're putting down some grassroots ideas and flashing them out for the next Priest record. So we're gonna go into the studio to start recording in January. So it should be out sometime next year. But we're not touring next year. So we're gonna be touring, hopefully, in 2018."



Even though the guys in Judas Priest will be entering the studio in January 2017, they will still have some time for themselves between completion and promotion. Faulker states that he is planning a big touring "guitar event" that is expected to go on tour the same year. "I saw this thing about Stradivarius violins. And you know they've created some of the most beautiful music the world's ever known, but what's happening is people are guying them as an investment and putting them in a bank vault. And the same is starting to happen with vintage guitars, and no one's hearing... When Jimmy Page played the '59 Les Paul, that's not being experienced anymore. So the idea is loosely based around that - getting these guitars out of abnk vaults, putting them in a scenario where people can experience them, people can hear them."

"We're calling it 'Cult of Guitar,' 'cause that's what we're a part of - it's a cult of guitar. We're nuts; we're all nuts, we're nerds. [We're] inviting some friends down getting their guitars out, talking about why they play them, why it's got one volume knob, who it's got this, why it's got that, why they choose to play it, who turned them on to guitar, and then having a big old jam at the end, with some friends coming down."

(source: Loudwire)