Metal Anarchy

It looks like Elegant Weapons (Judas Priest, Rainbow, etc.) are nearly finished with their new album. Frontman Ronnie Romero recently confirmed the news to The Rock ‘N’ Blues Experience, saying the effort is “pretty much ready.”

Romero said the following:

“Actually, the album is recorded already. It’s finished. It’s totally done. Actually, a couple of weeks ago, I got some final mixes from Richie, just to check it out. Yeah, it is fantastic. I think it’s gonna be fantastic. Also, I feel like it’s really a step forward from the first one, because when I recorded the first album, the album actually was already recorded by another singer. So what I did, it was just going to the studio and trying to fit my vocals on what it was already done. And it took me two or three days doing that recording. But this time we took the time, going to the studio, being all together with Richie Faulkner and [producer] Andy Sneap and just working on the songs: ‘This kind of lyrics works.’ ‘This doesn’t work.’ ‘We need to change the vocal line.’ ‘We need to change the key.’ ‘We need to change this.’ ‘We need to add some backing vocals here.’ And we spent a lot of time together, so this is more ELEGANT WEAPONS than the first one.”

He continued when asked about the title:

“Yeah, I don’t know if I’m allowed to say something. [Laughs] I think that also there was a cover art that Richie sent me to check it out also, so I will say it’s pretty much done. It’s pretty much ready.”

He also added the following about release plans:

“That’s the only thing that I know because, actually, Richie is still talking to some record labels because he’s not going to release the album with the same record label that we did the first one. So he’s just thinking of some options. And it all depends on his duties with JUDAS PRIEST, because now he’s touring in the U.S. and then I think they’re starting to work on a new album.”

[via Blabbermouth]