Judas Priest frontman, Rob Halford, recently spoke with Q104.3 New York's Out Of The Box host Jonathan Clarke, and during the chat offered an update on the band's forthcoming new album.
Asked if it's true that the album "is very close to being completed", Halford says: "It is close, yeah. All the writing's done; the bulk of the recording is done. I've still gotta put my vocal tracks down. So, in essence, it's done, which is a great feeling, because again, that really points us to the metal future. Everything that we've done in Priest over the last 50-odd years has been driven by the latest music that we're making. So this is no exception. We'll finish this 50th anniversary celebration down in São Paulo, Brazil on December the 18th, and that'll be this year done. And then next year we're kicking off with our good friend Ozzy in the UK, we'll do some shows with him, and in Europe. And then a few other bits and pieces we've got going over in Europe. And then we stop. And then we plan the next release sequence for the next Priest album."
Watch the interview below:
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