JUDAS PRIEST Singer: New Album Will Qualify The Importance Of The Band

July 8, 2004

JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford recently spoke to The Hartford Courant about his decision to reunite with the group after 14 years apart.

"This is a reunification experience," he said. "We want to let people see Halford the metal god back in the band."

According to Halford, he wrote a letter five years ago eeking to re-establish contact with former PRIEST bandmates Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing and Ian Hill, breaking years of silence that followed his departure.

"I can recall being back in San Diego at my favorite coffee shop, just sitting there smoking a cigar and thinking about life, like you do," Halford said. "And I thought to myself, this is crazy, because I missed the guys so much more than anything else. So I started to put my feelings and my thoughts down on paper, and that ended up being quite an important letter."

With regards to the band's upcoming tour, Halford said, "I think we can still stand on that stage and be believed, you know, because that's what's kept us alive and accepted, that this is real. PRIEST is a unique animal, if you're fully aware of what we've been through and achieved. We've made so much music over the years, and though we've never kind of dwelled on the how-great-they-are kind of syndrome, we feel proud of what we've achieved, to be the first true British heavy-metal band."

After the tour, which is likely to include a second swing through America after Ozzfest, PRIEST plans to release an album of new material that Halford says "will qualify the importance of the band."

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