JUDAS PRIEST Singer Talks About New Studio Album, Upcoming Live DVD

July 26, 2004

JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford recently spoke to Metal-Exiles.com about the group's upcoming album, the recently released "Metalogy" box set and their plans for the future. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

Metal-Exiles.com: What is the progress on the new CD?

Rob Halford: "It is almost completed, after Ozzfest we are going back in and doing a little overdubbing and all of the mixing has to be done."

Metal-Exiles.com: What is the direction that the CD is going in?

Rob Halford: "It is difficult to put into words but the people that are eagerly awaiting it will not be disappointed. It has the speed and ferocity of songs like 'Painkiller' and 'Freewheel Burning', the passion and the drama of songs like 'The Sentinel' and 'Sinner' and nice slow ballad pieces plus a few new twists because the band always has its ear to the ground of the current scene."

Metal-Exiles.com: Will there be a live DVD from what you are doing now?

Rob Halford: "When we were in Europe we had a film crew in Barcelona and Valencia so we will take the highlights from that and put it with the recording that comes out at Christmas time and after that we will put out the full reunion DVD release out."

Metal-Exiles.com: Do you feel that your time out of PRIEST was well spent doing the projects like FIGHT, TWO and HALFORD? Do you think that was a good learning experience to prime your return to PRIEST?

Rob Halford: "I think it was very important to do go and do what I did because it focused me and brought me back home to be where I really needed to be. It was a walkabout to see what other possibilities were out there for me as far as a performer and a musician I enjoyed those times but at the same time as I was proceeding through that work of that my yearning was to be back with PRIEST, it is where I belong and it is where my best work comes from. It was important because it brought me back to PRIEST."

Read Rob Halford's entire interview with Metal-Exiles.com at this location.

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