Judas Priest will release a new album.
The English heavy metal band, which formed in Birmingham over 50 years ago, surprised fans during their performance at the Power Trip Festival in Indio, California, on Saturday (07.10.23) by announcing their highly-anticipated 19th studio album, titled ‘Invincible Shield’.
The long-awaited LP will be their first release in six years, and is the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Firepower’.
While the album won’t be released until March 2024, fans can enjoy the first earworm, which will be released on Friday, October 13.
On Twitter, Judas Priest wrote: “The New. Invincible Shield. March 8, 2024. Pre-order now.”
The album, which has been in the works since 2020, was originally put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a previous interview, Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford told Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3: “We’ve already started working on it.
“We had some great writing sessions earlier this year until the world shut down in late March.
“I came back here [home] to Phoenix just to chill and relax a little bit and get ready for another writing session. Because that’s what we need to do as a band. You do a bunch of work and then you walk away from it and then you go back to it later and re-analyze it and continue the growth of the record.
“That’s what we were doing then, and we’re still doing it – we’re still putting pieces together. It’s an unusual way to make a record, but we’re not the only band going through this situation creatively. You can’t let this pandemic stop you; you have to try and get as much out of life as possible.
