Et encore quelque chose de nouveau pour eux, ils avancent les vieux.

Launch Radio Networks reports: Things are going well with the recording of the new JUDAS PRIEST album. It's a concept album about the 16th Century French prophet Nostradamus, and the band has started thinking about release dates. Frontman Rob Halford told Launch that everyone's excited about the project. "The writing sessions were fantastic — some of the best writing that (guitarists) Glenn (Tipton) and K.K. (Downing) and myself have ever created, and we're in good shape, we're recording. And finger's crossed, and with the belief that it's ready when it's ready, we should be out by the middle of 2007 with 'Nostradamus'."

Perso, je me fous comme de l'an 40 que l'album parle de Nostradamus ou de la culture de coquelicots, tant qu'il y a des morceaux qui trouent le cul comme l'ont fait Judas Rising et Hellrider sur le dernier (même si ce sont les seuls, mais ça prouve que le Priest est encore capable de pondre des morceaux de ce genre)...

En fait, je me fous même de ce dernier album qui n'est pas encore sorti, y a juste un truc que je veux... que le groupe passe en France (à Paris de préférence ) avant leur mort ou la mienne

Faudrait voir ce que dit Nostradamus dans ses prédictions sur la venue de Judas en France

Ca avance... mais pas vite.


Sweden's Metalshrine conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford on January 30, 2007. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Metalshrine: I was watching the video for [the new HALFORD song] "Forgotten Generation" on YouTube and there's a lot of disturbing images with police violence and so forth. What's the story behind [that track]?

Rob Halford: I talked forever about this. "How are we gonna do this?" "Are we gonna put on a band performance?" You know, green screen, blue screen...and then I thought, "Well, what are we gonna surround it with?" We tried different formats and I thought, basically the message in the song is my belief that everybody's got a voice and everybody has an opportunity to say what they want and they DO, especially on blogs on the Internet. So it's a very assertive song in that respect and I thought, well because of what I do with the HALFORD band it lets me kind of tackle kind of real-life issues and social political issues if I want to go there and I have and I will in the future still. I don't do that in PRIEST because PRIEST is a different metal animal. I just thought that all those things that go on in life, they are terrible and they are upsetting and they are disturbing, but I just wanted to focus on that area because I hadn't done it before. I just wanted to stimulate people's thinking more than anything else. Just go, "Look at all this shit that's going on!" and still going on. It's horrible and it's terrible and some people might say, "Come on, Rob, we get enough of that as it is!" but I don't think you can push it under the carpet all the time. So I just wanted to put all those little clips together and make you sit and watch and think about it and have a reaction to it. It's very important to react! That's what rock and roll is all about — reacting! You either go "Living After Midnight" and have a rock and roll party or you go a bit deeper and a bit more objective with the real message.

Metalshrine: How far have you come in the recording of the [new JUDAS PRIEST] album ["Nostradamus"]? The structure of the songs, are they done and are you just working on the lyrics now or what?

Rob Halford: Like any band you go through the difficult stage, which is sitting down, like Glenn [Tipton] and Ken [K.K. Downing] and myself did with guitars and keyboards and go, "OK, let's start!", but "Where should we start?" (laughs) "What part of his life do we do first?" and I think, what we tried to do is actually go on a timeline from when he first discovered these abilities to prophecize and all the other things that he went through in his life. And so, that's the initial challenge and the three of us put together very rudimentary demos fully in every aspect that we want to cover instruments and arrangements and construction and then really the joy that is to replicate those very rough demos to the fully, finished and final and musical pieces. And that's what the guys are doing in England, doing all of that right now and I'll be going over there shortly to lay all my vocal tracks down.

Metalshrine: Do you have any titles ready?

Rob Halford: Titles? Of course I do and I'm not going to tell you (laughs), because everybody wants them. That's great, because everybody's like, "I wonder what this song is about and will it be a fast song or a slow song, a ballad?", and that's what I love. I was talking to somebody yesterday, a friend of mine who's a radio host here in America, we were talking about the magic and the mystic of what we do in music and a lot of those elements have faded away. I said, "I have to agree with you!" and that's what we've always tried to do in PRIEST, is keep everybody wondering and thinking, so when the moment actually comes, it's an exciting thing. It's like having a Christmas gift under the Christmas tree and knowing what it is! That's no good, is it? You don't want to go crazy and rip the wrapping paper off to find out it's a pair of slippers! (laughs) It will be a nice heavily incrusted leather diamond wristband or something. But I think it's important that you keep a little bit of secrecy going on, it's the passion, the passion that PRIEST fans have. They're all excited and wondering and anticipating what this is gonna be about and it's very tempting (laughs) to start shouting out lyrics and titles, but I can't do that. But it's wonderful and incredible music and I think that the PRIEST fans worldwide are gonna embrace it and have a wonderful time with it, especially when we play it live.

Metalshrine: Are you producing it yourselves or are you working with a producer?

Rob Halford: Well, the initial stage is we're basically looking after everything ourselves and we're gonna take it to different levels and feel if we need some kind of producer involved. We haven't decided just yet, because we're a long way from the finishing line, so to speak. Everything that we've done has been co-produced pretty much. We know what we're about and what we need to do and at some point it is valuable to bring in another individual with a another objective point of view. That's what good producers do. A producer will come in and go, "Hey guys, this is great, but have you thought about doing this and trying this?" and if they're a good producer the reaction is "Yeah, that's pretty cool, we never thought about that!" and they take you to a place that you maybe didn't think through or didn't see. But at the moment we're doing it ourselves and as when we feel it's necessary to bring in production, we'll do that.

Metalshrine: You haven't started thinking about art work for the album then?

Rob Halford: Yeah, all that's going on and the stage design is going on. All of these things are going on around the actual studio evironment.

Metalshrine: How involved are you in that?

Rob Halford: In every aspect. That's just the way we are in PRIEST, because at the end of the day we don't want to have something happen and be uncomfortable with it, because we didn't say something or speak up or dind't have any input whatever. Everything that comes from PRIEST in every aspect, comes from the input of all of us in the band and all of us agreeing that this is the right thing to do.

Metalshrine: I read somewhere that you're planning on playing the whole album live. Any truth to that?

Rob Halford: Yeah, we will do that.

Metalshrine: The same kind of thing that IRON MAIDEN did?

Rob Halford: Yeah, that's what MAIDEN's just done and I think that's gonna be another core moment, because we've never done that ourselves. We kind of put that out in the press release, while we were writing the record and we wanted people to know that that's what our intentions are gonna be and then of course when MAIDEN came out they went into that world as well and it's proved really successful for them. It'll be a full performance front to back with a very elaborate and theatrical stage show and again, that's something new for us and for our fans around the world.

Read the entire interview at Metalshrine.

Une interview de Downing :



BW&BK EXCLUSIVE Studio Report -

JUDAS PRIEST's Nostradamus Album Will Contain "18 Songs Clocking In At Over An Hour And A Half"

http://www.bravewords.com/news/60591


In an EXCLUSIVE chat with BW&BK this afternoon (February 17th), JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing took some time to discuss the band's upcoming concept album about the life and predictions of 16th-century French prophet Nostradamus.

"Myself and Glenn (Tipton - guitar) have been in the studio for the last month and a half non-stop, laying and formatting the tracks," Downing reveals before heading off to the pub! "Basically we're doing a lot of the groundwork. Roy (Z - guitarist/producer; also HALFORD, BRUCE DICKINSON) hasn't been involved in the new record as yet. He has really been quite busy with Rob (Halford - vocals) in his band as well. We'll have to see what happens on that front. Rob's already put vocals down on some of these tracks, but they've only been kind of roughed out. So, he's been refining the lyrics for the album. But the thing with this one is that the music is running an a hour and 39 minutes at the moment. So it's literally almost twice as long as what we've done previously. This concept is going to be that way, pretty intense, in-depth and length - and hopefully a masterpiece."

Will it stay that length?
Well, were were hoping we'd get it onto one CD, but knowing that a CD holds only 80 minutes, it's looking that we'll have two CDs I guess."

Is the material taking shape to the point that you can't edit it down?
"I think there is one idea that we can afford to leave off, but the rest is still going to run about an hour and a half."

Describe the material?
"It's tough and we are ready for anything. The only thing I know is that it sounds like music," he laughs! "Hopefully songs that sound like music - that's all I can say."

How many songs are there in the can?
"I think there are 18, but there are a lot of links between songs. There are lots of instrumental parts, so it's a full-on musical really."

What about orchestration?
"Yes, there's going to be orchestration. It's all myself and Glenn putting it together. We dabbled with Midi Guitars back in the '80s, with the Turbo (1986) album. Now things have moved on a lot and now we've got some pretty high tech gear. The tracking is very good, so we can put the orchestrations together ourselves. Also, we've always dabbled with keyboards as well. Godin, the guitar company from Quebec, I've been using those for about a year and that's working out really well. They are the best people in the world if you want Midi converters on an instrument. So we can actually play their guitars and go through a Roland or Axiom interface. It can sound like anything you know. We're getting all these really heavy, orchestral sounds and stuff."

Are any outside orchestrations being considered or will it strictly be all Priest?
"We're taking about that. We don't really know. What we do know is what we're putting together sounds really, really good you know. Obviously we want to go out and play and perform this concept in it's entirety. Hopefully this will be the first ever metal opera in a sense. We're talking staging now as well. We're look forward to putting on a great show with this music. Who knows what's going to happen yet. We'll release the record and maybe go out on tour. Maybe play a couple of songs off the new record. It would be nice to tour with this record, once we establish with the people whether they like it or not."

Have you encountered any problems with this massive undertaking considering you announced the project last April?
"No, actually. We're pretty confident ... quietly confident. The only question is the level of acceptance, because everybody, probably just want another Priest record you know! All of those ingredients will be in the record anyway."

Is this coming together at the pace you expected?
"We're belting along now. All the songs are down and formatted ... were just getting ready to get Rob over now and looking forward to hearing his lyrics on this new record and us putting it all together."

What's your timeline? Will Nostradamus be out by the summer time?
"Yes, definitely. We may be back on the road in the summer, maybe late summer. There's always somewhere in the world Priest can tour, so we'll be looking to get out there and play some shows."

Are you getting cabin fever?
"You do don't you? When you finish a world tour like we did - we did almost 18 months of touring. I think we did the Ozzfest and the European festivals before we even released our last record (Angel Of Retribution). And then we did a world tour with that. It's amazing, time goes by and you look forward to getting out there and cranking it up you know."


On va don csans doute avoir un double album, putain j'ai hâte!

Un double album ?! Putain...
Bon déjà, les deux CD ne seront pas remplis à ras-bord mais tout de même. J'aimerais passer ce message aux artistes : réapprenez à faire du tri dans vos compos. Vous êtes géniaux (enfin pas tous), on sait. Mais rogntudju de rogntudju, cessez de vouloir tout mettre, faites-nous de beaux et bons albums de trois quarts d'heure comme au bon vieux temps.
Hein ?
Non ?

Je vous encule. (Ouais, je me lache ce soir.)

Je suis bien d'accord, marre du remplissage... 45 minutes ça suffit!

Tu encules qui tu veux mais pas moi, espèce d'homo

Au lieu de tirer des traits sur la comète attendez que ça sorte, c'est judas priest, pas n'importe quel tacheron.

Je commence à craindre...

Et puis dites vous que ce sera sans doute leur seul album de ce genre.
Donc faut pas s'inquièter, si vous l'aimer pas c'est pas grave, le prochain vous plaira plus.

Vu la très bonne impression que m'a laissé le dernier en date (un long titre bien maîtrisé entre autres), je suis impatient d'écouter le nouveau.

Une bio non officielle sort le 14/09 :



Defenders of the Faith - The True Story of Judas Priest de Neil Daniels contient 300 pages à sortir le 14 septembre, des photos rares, une biographie qui commence en 1969, des interviews de divers interlocuteurs (journalistes, producteurs, ancients membres du groupe...)

Ian Hill et Scott Travis ont du etre coupé au montage de la couverture

Pauvre Ian Hill...

Le management du groupe apprécie pas des masses la sortie de ce bouquin.

JUDAS PRIEST management representative Jayne Andrews posted a message on the group's official web site, stating that "we would like to make it clear to everyone that a book which is due out soon, entitled 'Defenders of the Faith - The True Story of Judas Priest' by Neil Daniels, is not an official book and is not approved by the band. We had absolutely no involvement with this book at all and therefore it is most definitely not the true story of JUDAS PRIEST!!"

Vous me conseillez quel album après Painkiller, British Steel et Screaming for vengeance ?

Defenders of the faith, Killing machine et Sad wings of destiny.

Oh et puis n'importe lequel ils sont tous bon.

Defender of the Faith est clairement un bon album pour commencer (c'est avec celui la que je suis devenu fan) c'est le Painkiller du début des 80's.

Le mixage a commencé. Ils vont annoncer les dates pour 2008 dans les prochaines semaines. Le Rob est très confiant sur le prochain album. Il va être attendu au tournant.

JUDAS PRIEST has begun mixing its new concept album about the legendary 16th century prophet Nostradamus, singer Rob Halford revealed during an appearance this past Friday (November 16) on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show. In addition, JUDAS PRIEST will make an announcement in the next couple of weeks about tour dates for 2008. According to Halford, the upcoming tour will include shows where the entire "Nostradamus" album will be performed as well as concerts featuring the band's classic songs.

Regarding the direction of the material and how whole concept for the record came about, Halford recently told PureGrainAudio.com, "It sounds absolutely fucking amazing and that's not me inflating it, it is genuinely spectacular. So we're still carrying on with that and it should be out sometime in 2008. The idea (for the record) came from our manager Bill Curbishley, because we were ready to go in and do another studio record, but Bill came to see us towards the end of the 'Angel of Retribution' tour, he came to Russia, we were playing Russia and we had lunch with him and he said, 'Look, I have this idea.' Bill manages THE WHO, you know, Pete and Roger, and Bill was behind the enormous success of 'Tommy' and he said, 'I just think that you know, maybe you should think about this possibility of doing a concept album and I've been thinking about this guy Nostradamus.' And as soon as he brought the name up, I'm like, I'm there, let's go, you don't have to say anything else. I knew something of him already like everybody does about the books that you read about him, or on the Internet or on TV, documentaries and I thought wow, this is absolutely brilliant so that's where it all came about from."

On the rumors that "Nostradamus" will be a double album, Halford said, "It is a rumor still. I mean, there is an enormous amount of material and you can only put so much on a single CD so you know, we're trying to tell the story of his life and we're trying to cover every significant moment of his life and I think you know, when we got it all recorded, that's when you're faced with the reality of how much time you got and how much a CD will afford you and the timing of it all. So we just ask everyone to bear with us and as we actually get into the mixing mode, we'll be able to be more definitive and tell everybody exactly what we've got, but we just want to make sure we tell his life story so we'll do whatever it takes to do that."

Metal God Entertainment and Rob Halford have announced the release of two custom-designed digipaks with exclusive new DVD content for 2008.

Due May 26, "Into The Pit" is a four-disc collection from FIGHT which includes FIGHT's original recordings re-engineered for release: "War Of Words - Remixed and Remastered"; "Mutations - Remastered"; "A Small Deadly Space - Remixed and Remastered"; as well as a new DVD release "Live In Phoenix" featuring rare and unreleased FIGHT footage.

"Into The Pit" will debut in a numbered digipak edition, original Rob Halford autograph and 24-page booklet. Worldwide release begins May 26 at local and online retailers.

"Halford Live At Rock In Rio III", a 5.1 DVD, also includes HALFORD's debut recording, "Resurrection – Remastered", and is scheduled for release on September 23, 2008. 13 cameras are fixed on one of metal's most diverse bands of the decade as The Metal God delivers one of his best live performances in front of two-hundred thousand-plus Brazilians.

HALFORD's 2001 double-live CD "Live Insurrection" makes its debut in Blu-Ray Hi-Definition 5.1 Surround Audio September 23, 2008. "Live Insurrection – Remastered" Blu-Ray will feature a custom-designed digipak, original Rob Halford autograph and 20-page booklet including rare pictures and exclusive liner notes. "Live Insurrection" will dazzle Metal God music fans possessing the latest in 5.1 Blu-Ray technologies.

Visit iTunes.com — keywords Halford and Fight — www.HalfordMusic.com or dozens of international digital service providers for videos, MP3s, CD-quality FIGHT and HALFORD downloads.

U.S. iPhone consumers may customize FIGHT and HALFORD ringtones at iTunes beginning May 1, 2008.

Je m'interroge sur l'intérêt de ces sorties. Si je me trompe pas, tous ces disques ont été réédités l'année dernière, non ?

Et concernant le prochain PRIEST, pas de nouvelles ? Ca fait 4 mois qu'ils ont fait voeu de silence...