JUDAS PRIEST's RICHIE FAULKNER: 'We're Definitely Talking About' Making Another Album

Kaaos TV conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner before the band’s June 4 concert in Helsinki, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On whether JUDAS PRIEST already has ideas for the follow-up to 2014’s “Redeemer Of Souls” album:

“Well, personally, I’ve always got ideas. I’ve always got… I’ve just recorded some ideas back in the dressing room. It might be PRIEST stuff, it might be something completely different, but you never know. You can put something down that doesn’t necessarily sound like PRIEST, and we put it on the table for ‘Redeemer’, and if it works, and it’s a great song, then we’ll go with it, so you never really know. But we kind of get things together ourselves. We might go away and spend a bit of time alone and come up with some ideas, and then get together — me, Rob [Halford, vocals] and Glenn [Tipton, guitar] — and put all our ideas in the hat and see what we’ve got. Glenn might have an idea that’ll go together with mine, and Rob‘s got a vocal idea, and that’s how we, sort of, do it, really. So we get ideas on our own and build them up, really. And then we… not start from scratch, but we get to a point where we’ve put all our ideas together and then work with it from there. That’s what we did with ‘Redeemer Of Souls’, anyway. So, yeah, I’m always coming up with stuff, and I’m sure the other guys are the same.”

On whether PRIEST has already had “serious” discussions about making another studio album:

“Serious in the sense that we’ll probably do one. We’ve discussed it. With the ‘Redeemer Of Souls’ sessions, we were coming up with song after song after song. I think there’s eighteen tracks on the deluxe version, and I think we had twenty tracks. We didn’t finish two; we had to cut off the writing process. So it was really creative. So, based on that, I think that we’re pretty certain there will be another record. And we throw a few ideas around in terms of sounds of what direction we could go in, and we consider all possibilities, but nothing really locked in at the moment. I think the best thing for us to do would be… We’ve got some time off in August and September… or maybe early next year… just get into the studio and throw some ideas out and what we’ve got, and see where it takes us. And maybe a direction will take its shape from that. But, yeah, we talk about it. Me and Glenn talk about it, from a guitar point of view — what we could do, and what would be cool, and what could be diferent and unique. So we’re definitely talking about it, yeah.”

“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.

“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.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net