“I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that”: Richie Faulkner lets slip update on new Judas Priest album
Is a new Judas Priest album in the works? It would certainly appear so, according to a brief comment made by guitarist Richie Faulkner in a new interview.
Priest’s most recent album, Invincible Shield, landed in 2024, and it would seem the English quintet are eyeing up a followup. Though his reply is brief, when asked about the status of a potential 20th studio album, Faulkner confirms: “We’ve started recording it.”
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“We were in the studio for a month in February laying the foundation,” he tells Canada’s The Metal Voice [via Blabbermouth]. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it!”
That’s all we know for now, and it may be a while before we actually hear any material from the album, but for now, confirmation is good enough for us.
Richie Faulkner joined Judas Priest in 2011, replacing KK Downing. “They’ve been doing it for 50-odd years,” he says. “I’m part of the team now, and it is the crew and management and everyone that pitches together to make that machine roll.
“And I can see how they’ve been doing it for that long. I’ve said to you guys before – they love it. And we’ll do a tour and then we’ll get excited and do an album, and then you get excited for the album and do another tour. So I can see how it happens. And we’re doing another album, and we’ll probably tour that.
Richie Faulkner’s career was put on hold when he suffered an aortic aneurysm while performing onstage with Priest at Louder Than Life Festival in 2021. He subsequently underwent 10-hour emergency open heart surgery and has since recovered.
Despite the years that have passed since, Faulkner recently revealed that he continues to work with a physio “three times a day” to manage the damage the incident caused to his body.
I’ve had a bit of collateral damage on my right side with stuff connected to what happened. So I have to work on that,” he said.
Elsewhere in the new interview, Faulkner touches on the upcoming Ballad of Judas Priest documentary, which chronicles 50 years of Judas Priest.
“It’s really well put together, and it goes through the story of where they started and what they went through and everything like that and talks to different people about Priest’s influence on them.
“There’s a great bit in it where they go back to, I think it’s a working man’s club in Aston [United Kingdom] or somewhere like that, where they played their first show, and Ian’s [Hill, Judas Priest bassist] in there and he’s sitting down, and it’s still there. And he’s in the club, and you can see the stage where they performed and everything. It’s still there, man. And it’s great, as a fan, to see that stuff. I haven’t seen that stuff before. So it’s really good. When it comes out, you should definitely check it out.”
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