British heavy metallic legends JUDAS PRIEST will launch “Trial By Fireplace”, the second single from their upcoming studio album, “Invincible Protect”, on Friday, November 17. A teaser for the monitor is on the market beneath.

“Invincible Protect” will arrive on March 8, 2024 through Sony Music. The LP’s first single, “Panic Assault”, will be streamed beneath.

The discharge date for PRIEST‘s follow-up to 2018’s “Firepower” was introduced on October 7 through the band’s efficiency on the Energy Journey competition in Indio, California.

After BLACK SABBATH‘s “Warfare Pigs” performed because the intro to PRIEST‘s set, a graphic was displayed on the video screens asserting “The Invincible Protect”.

The quilt art work for the CD and vinyl variations of “Invincible Protect” will be discovered beneath.

To pre-order “Invincible Protect”, go to store.judaspriest.com.

This previous June, PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner informed Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio that the band’s new album was “sounding nice. I used to be in Phoenix with [producer and touring guitarist] Andy Sneap and Rob just a few weeks in the past, placing the vocals down,” he mentioned. “And it is at all times thrilling to listen to new PRIEST tracks, as a result of they grow to be PRIEST tracks when Rob sings them. It is, like, the world hasn’t heard them but, however there’s new PRIEST tracks that we’re listening to for the primary time. It is actually thrilling, listening to that attribute voice that we have heard for many years singing new stuff. It is an extremely thrilling factor, so I am unable to await the world to listen to all of it.”

Elaborating on the musical course of the brand new PRIEST materials, Faulkner mentioned: “There are positively just a few extra twists and activates this report. There are just a few extra musical components. So, there is perhaps a little bit of… As I mentioned, there are twists and turns. I’ve used the phrase ‘progressive’ earlier than, and the Web ripped me a brand new asshole. However it’s progressive within the sense that it is not like verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-finish. It is musical part-verse-musical half. It’d do just a few twists and turns, musically. It veers from the trail of it, a bit like ‘Sinner’ or ‘Tyrant’ or one thing like that. So, it’s kind of extra ’70s PRIEST, which I welcome as a guitar participant… It is ’70s PRIEST, however it’s not a retro album, by any means. It is the affect of ’70s PRIEST within the progressive sense, however it appears like PRIEST in 2023.”

He added: “Each PRIEST album has sort of stood by itself, stylistically. It is had that DNA of JUDAS PRIEST, as a result of the characters are so robust. However it’s at all times been somewhat bit totally different — retaining that DNA however having its personal character. So, this one’s no totally different, actually, within the sense that it is clearly JUDAS PRIEST, however it’s its personal animal; it stands by itself two legs.”

Final November, Faulkner informed Robert Cavuoto of Steel Guidelines that some PRIEST followers misconstrued his earlier feedback concerning the musical course of the band’s upcoming LP. He mentioned: “I believe we have used the phrase ‘progressive’, and everybody thinks it is gonna grow to be ‘Nostradamus’ [PRIEST‘s controversial 2008 symphonic heavy metal concept double album about Nostradamus], or RUSH, which is 2 various things. I’ve positively used the phrase ‘progressive’ [to describe the new PRIEST material in previous interviews], purely as a result of it is received just a few musical turnarounds that ‘Firepower’ would not have. However that does not make it a RUSH report. It simply makes it — as an alternative of, like, a verse right into a bridge right into a refrain, there is perhaps a few extra musical passages in there to make it a bit extra… attention-grabbing; is perhaps the fallacious phrase. I do not know. You’ve got gotta watch out with the phrases you utilize as of late. So it is not ‘Firepower 2’, however it’s the identical band just a few years later, so there’s apparent connections to the final report. However it’s not ‘Firepower 2’ by any means.”

Richie continued: “No PRIEST information have sounded the identical, however it’s received a standard DNA. And also you at all times try to make the following one sound a bit higher — or no matter ‘higher’ could also be; ‘higher’ is subjective. So, is it higher written? Are the lyrics higher? Does it sound higher? And ‘higher’ is at all times subjective. So it is onerous to pinpoint, actually. However it’s kind of extra of a musical journey than the final one, I would say. However then once more somebody may take heed to it, when it does come out, and have a completely totally different interpretation of what it’s. So it is at all times robust to sum up your personal music with out sounding up your personal butt.”

In February 2022, Halford was requested by Remy Maxwell of Audacy Verify In if he agreed with Faulkner‘s remark that the band’s upcoming album can be extra musically “progressive” than “Firepower”. He responded: “Yeah, the metallic is there. However this is the factor: we have tried our greatest to not replicate something that we have performed. From ‘Rocka Rolla’ during to ‘Firepower’, every report has had a particular character. And it is robust as a result of followers go, ‘We would like one other ‘Painkiller’,’ ‘We would like one other ‘British Metal’.’ And [it’s, like], ‘Dude, we have already performed that.’

“Followers know that we’re a band that’s at all times stuffed with journey and attempting new stuff,” he continued. “And so, yeah, this has received most likely some extra progressive components that we have by no means actually delved into earlier than. And that is thrilling, as a result of, once more, it offers us and our followers one other alternative to see a unique aspect of PRIEST. However it’s nonetheless metallic. There’s simply extra of it. There are extra notes than there have been earlier than.”

Additionally in February 2022, Faulkner informed Canada’s The Steel Voice concerning the total sound of the brand new PRIEST music: “Everytime you begin a report, you by no means know the way it’s gonna prove. So that you may begin with an thought of what it is gonna be, and because it sort of rolls on, it comes out one thing totally different. So you do not fairly know. And likewise it is actually onerous to sum up your personal music, I discover, with out sounding actually pretentious. However I believe this one — it is not ‘Firepower 2’, I do not assume. It is its personal factor, it is its personal animal. If something, I might say it’s kind of extra progressive in locations, and in locations it is received a bit extra of that ‘Killing Machine’ swagger.”

Faulkner added: “I do know everybody says, ‘Oh, is it the following ‘Painkiller’?’ or ‘Is it the following…?’ no matter… I do not know in the event that they’d ever performed it, however I do know we have by no means performed it once I’ve been within the band; we have by no means tried to recreate an album. It is at all times we attempt to create an album that stands by itself legs. So I believe it is positively somewhat bit extra progressive than ‘Firepower’ and, as I mentioned, in locations it is received somewhat little bit of that ‘Killing Machine’ indignant swagger angle happening.”

Bassist Ian Hill is the only real remaining authentic member of PRIEST, which fashioned in 1969. Halford joined the group in 1973 and guitarist Glenn Tipton signed on in 1974. Rob left PRIEST within the early Nineties to kind his personal band, then got here again to PRIEST in 2003. Unique guitarist Ok.Ok. Downing parted methods with the band in 2011, and was changed by Faulkner.

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