JUDAS PRIEST To Film 'British Steel' Anniversary Tour For 2010 Release

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On his newly established companues, Metal God Records and Metal God Apparel, named after the "metal god" himself:

"I love what I do and I'm in my golden years as a metal singer. I turn 58 this coming August, which I'm excited about. I'm even more excited about when I turn 60, but that's jumping the gun. I want to stay associated with everything that I love for as long as I possibly can. Having these avenues like the record label and the clothing line and other things, keep me vibrant and in a world that I don't want to let go of."

On PRIEST's new live album, "A Touch of Evil - Live":

"It's the first live album in a while from PRIEST. We recorded loads and loads of shows over the past couple of tours that we've done. We've tried to do basically something we had not done before, which is put in tracks that we've never released live in this format. I'm really pleased about it.

"It's a very, very strong, heavy, aggressive set of tunes. It really shows the determination of the band three decades later, that we can still play our metal with the same passion and power that we've always had."

On JUDAS PRIEST's longevity and contunued success:

"If you love what you do, you're going to put your heart and soul into it and that's what we do in PRIEST. You have to think consistently about your longevity. If you've had a long journey in rock 'n' roll, you put value and importance to those songs, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of times you've played them. Because at that particular moment when you're standing on the stage in, say, the Detroit area and you're playing 'Breaking the Law' for what may feel like the millionth time, it's for the first time in that moment in time."

On celebrating the upcoming 30th anniversary of the "British Steel", originally issued in April 1980, by performing the album in its entirety for the first time on stages across the United States:

"We'll be recording all these shows and, at some point, we'll bring cameras in and we'll release a wonderful package of the PRIEST and 'British Steel' next year, which is the official 30th birthday.

"We wanted to do something a bit different on the second leg of the American tour. The first tour with Metal Masters was a great success. We were looking to give this particular tour another kind of exciting event edge to it. I think that's what we've got with presenting 'British Steel', and we have some other great people with us. We have David [Coverdale] and WHITESNAKE. That's another great opportunity to see two of these bands back to back. We have POP EVIL opening for us, which are doing great things in rock radio right now. They have a Top 10 rock-radio track right now, so it's got to be exciting for those boys. So, all in all, it's going to be a real wonderful night out for metal heads and rock heads."

Read the entire interview from LiveDaily.