Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Metal Journal, Ian Hill offered an update on Judas Priest’s new album. According to him, “it’ll be out some time next year.”

Hill said the following:

“We’ve done most of the music, or all the backing tracks anyway; we’ve got them down. There might be one extra [song] to do. But the vast majority of it, the backing tracks have been done. The guys have been to Phoenix working on vocals with Rob [Halford] over the last few weeks, I believe. So he’s in the process of putting the vocals down.”

He also discussed the musical direction:

“The style, it’s a little bit different from the last one. It’s — I don’t know — a little bit more traditional, maybe a little bit quirky with some of the things. And, yeah, it should be good. Like I say, I’ve only heard it in very raw form — just basically guitar, bass and drums. That’s all I’ve heard so far. But, yeah, it’s shaping up to be a great classic PRIEST album. It’ll be out some time next year. It’ll be out probably March, April, something like that, I should imagine. That’s down to the record company.”

He continued when asked if it will be similar to old-school albums like “British Steel,” “Screaming For Vengeance,” and “Defenders Of The Faith”:

“No, not that traditional. [Laughs] It’s more along the lines of ‘Invincible Shield’, but a lot more direct, shall I say.”

[via Blabbermouth]