Judas Priest To Begin Recording New Album Next Year

As Ritchie Faulkner Said In An Interview

Last Week Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner gave an interview on Sweetwaters editorial director Mitch Gallagher . In this interview he talked about the future of Judas Priest (Video Below) . Furthermore he said :

"I just flew straight back out of the U.K., straight to Sweetwater. 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; we're recording songs that work without the production to save them, if you know what I mean. But the core value… We're putting down some grassroots ideas and fleshing 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."

He Continued : 

 

"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 buying 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 bank vaults, putting them in a scenario where people can experience them, people can hear them"

Also he said :

"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 buying 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 bank vaults, putting them in a scenario where people can experience them, people can hear them."

"Part of it is, obviously, there are these idyllic instruments that we all listen to, and we all know, when you put on your record player, 'That's a '59,' or, 'That's a '63 Strat,' or whatever. But there's also, right across the gamut, it's all in your fingers. You don't have to have one of these [guitars]. This is what we all grew up on, but you can have an Epiphone, or you can have Brian May's Red Special, it's all in the fingers. So it goes right from these revered instruments right to… You can take something away from it and go and do your own thing on a guitar that you create, if you want, or it cost a couple of hundred bucks, whatever it is. It's not about that, at the end of the day; it's about you and what statement you wanna make on the guitar. And again, it's a coming together of the clan that I'm a part of and why we're all doing this. So it should be an exciting thing."

It seems like we will have a new album on the horizon and future for Judas Priest so it sounds like good news to me 

I would like to thank Sweetwater For the Interview and Thanks For Reading :-)