JUDAS PRIEST's Material For Upcoming Album 'Is Sounding Incredibly Exciting,' Says ROB HALFORD

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST are “still slaving away in the studio” working on material for the follow-up to 2014’s “Redeemer Of Souls” album. “It’s sounding great,” singer Rob Halford tells Ultimate Classic Rock in a new interview. “I can’t really say any more than that, because it’s still very nebulous, but it is sounding incredibly exciting and I’m sure we’ll talk about that when the time comes.”

Halford said last year that JUDAS PRIEST wasn’t interested in making “a ‘Redeemer Of Souls Part Two’.” He explained: “I think it’s very important that we make another stand-alone record again, a heavy metal record that’s going to have its own legs and just be as different as all of them have been so far.”

“Redeemer Of Souls” was released in July 2014. The follow-up to 2008’s double-disc concept album “Nostradamus” was billed as a return to JUDAS PRIEST‘s heavy-metal roots.

Halford told Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio show last year that the songwriting process was “one of the most thrilling moments for me personally in PRIEST. You go into a room with some amps, and turn the amps on, start riffing and boom, you could have another amazing PRIEST song by the end of the day. I love that part of being in PRIEST.”

“Redeemer Of Souls” sold around 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart.

JUDAS PRIEST‘s tenth studio album, “Turbo”, was recently remastered and will be released via Sony Music on February 3 on three CDs (the original album and two bonus discs) as well as one-LP 150-gram vinyl. Included on disc 2 and 3 of the CD reissue is, previously unreleased, “Live in Kansas City”, a live recording from the band’s 1986 “Fuel For Life” tour in support of “Turbo”.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net