JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist: 'We're Asking People To Step Into The World Of NOSTRADAMUS'

June 19, 2008

JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton recently spoke to Chris Harris of MTV News about the band's latest effort, a double-disc concept album based on the mysterious, world-known 16th century French prophet Nostradamus.

"After the last album, [2005's] 'Angel of Retribution', we wanted to do something different," Tipton told MTV News. "We've never rested on our laurels and made the next album the same as the last but with different lyrics, which a lot of bands, I think, have fallen into the trap of doing, knowing they'll sell X amount of records per year. We really wanted to try doing a concept album, and we'd been talking about it for a while. Our manager, Bill Curbishley, suggested Nostradamus."

Tipton continued, "We're asking people not to put one or two tracks on, but to step into the world of Nostradamus. That's the way we wrote it, so that the listener could step out of this world and go on this journey with Nostradamus. The album's full of light and shade, blood and thunder, and it's got a lot of melody. A couple of the tracks are very different from what we've done before, but it's still PRIEST. With this album, we want people to see that there's more to heavy metal than burning babies."

Read the entire article from MTV News.

Fan-filmed video footage of JUDAS PRIEST performing the new song "Prophecy" on June 16, 2008 in Bratislava, Slovakia can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "Lirub").

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