Judas Priest has virtually accomplished work on their nineteenth album, bassist Ian Hill reported.
There’s no launch date but for the follow-up to 2018’s Firepower, however in a brand new interview with Vinyl Author Music, Hill supplied a touch at what to anticipate.
“There may be an album within the pipeline, and it’s not removed from being completed,” he famous. “Whether or not it’ll be out someday subsequent 12 months or the 12 months after, we don’t know but. However there’ll in all probability be a little bit bit extra touring subsequent 12 months in 2023, so we’ll anticipate the mud to settle and let everyone catch their breath. After which we’ll in all probability begin once more in 2024. It is perhaps ahead of that, however we’ll see what occurs.”
Hill added that “so far as sound, we’ve taken it ahead once more. It’s gonna be a bit extra intricate and perhaps extra sophisticated than Firepower.” He described the brand new work as one other instance of the band attempting to develop and enhance their music: “That’s what we’ve all the time tried to do, and hopefully, it’s one other step in the fitting route.”
Wanting again at how their inventive strategy has affected their success, Hill famous that 1982’s Screaming for Vengeance “kicked off issues for us commercially in an enormous approach. … However the band’s peak was in all probability Defenders of the Religion, which got here subsequent. That was a extra polished model of Screaming for Vengeance, and it was the final album alongside these strains. The album that got here subsequent, Turbo, was very experimental, with it the synthesizer guitars and what have you ever. After which, after that, we went with a a lot more durable edge on Painkiller, which was in all probability a response to the place we had been within the late ’80s.”
Hill identified that Judas Priest “tried to get higher, or not less than be completely different, with every album, and I feel we completed that fairly properly. However after Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Religion, it grew to become tougher as a result of we had reached our pinnacle with that. After which the guitar synths got here alongside on Turbo, and we thought, ‘Nicely, perhaps that’s it for us. We in all probability overdid it!’”
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