Artist: JUDAS PRIEST
Album: INVINCIBLE SHIELD ALTERNATIVE COVER (DIGI)

Release date: 08.03.2024
EAN/UPS: 196588517020
Media type: CD

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST will release their new studio album, "Invincible Shield", on March 8, 2024 via Sony Music.

Invincible Shield is the nineteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Announced onstage at PowerTrip festival in California, the new record marks the band’s first release in 6 years, having recently celebrated 50 years in music and 50 million records sold. Judas Priest is Rob Halford, Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton, Scott Travis and Richie Faulkner.

This past June, PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner told Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio that the band's new album was "sounding great. I was in Phoenix with [producer and touring guitarist] Andy Sneap and Rob a few weeks ago, putting the vocals down," he said. "And it's always exciting to hear new PRIEST tracks, because they become PRIEST tracks when Rob sings them. It's, like, the world hasn't heard them yet, but there's new PRIEST tracks that we're hearing for the first time. It's really exciting, hearing that characteristic voice that we've heard for decades singing new stuff. It's an incredibly exciting thing, so I can't wait for the world to hear it all."

Elaborating on the musical direction of the new PRIEST material, Faulkner said: "There are definitely a few more twists and turns on this record. There are a few more musical parts. So, there might be a bit of... As I said, there are twists and turns. I've used the word 'progressive' before, and the Internet ripped me a new asshole. But it is progressive in the sense that it's not like verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-finish. It's musical part-verse-musical part. It might do a few twists and turns, musically. It veers from the path of it, a bit like 'Sinner' or 'Tyrant' or something like that. So, it's a bit more '70s PRIEST, which I welcome as a guitar player… It's '70s PRIEST, but it's not a retro album, by any means. It's the influence of '70s PRIEST in the progressive sense, but it sounds like PRIEST in 2023."  

TRACKLIST CD/ 2LP:

1.    "Panic Attack"    5:25
2.    "The Serpent and the King"    4:19
3.    "Invincible Shield"    6:21
4.    "Devil in Disguise"    4:46
5.    "Gates of Hell"    4:38
6.    "Crown of Horns"    5:45
7.    "As God Is My Witness"    4:36
8.    "Trial by Fire"    4:21
9.    "Escape from Reality"    4:24
10.    "Sons of Thunder"    2:58
11.    "Giants in the Sky"    5:03

Total length CD:    52:36