JUDAS PRIEST/HALFORD frontman Rob Halford is featured in a new interview with Mick Burgess at Metal Express Radio. An excerpt is available below.

Q: The new version of Crucible includes four new songs. ('She', 'Rock The World Forever', 'Fugitive' and 'In the Morning'). Were these bonus songs from special edition versions/Japanese bonus tracks or were these out takes from the recording sessions?

Halford: "They are a few songs that were on different versions of the album. It’s the way we do these things and sometimes tracks end up in one location for under licence and different tracks end up in another location. We now have the opportunity of pulling all the extra tracks together and putting them onto one release."

Q: 'In The Morning' in particular is such a great ballad and shows a different side to your voice. Have you considered putting together a collection of more reflective songs like this onto an album?

Halford: "I’ll tell you mate, when I think about the things that I would still like to do I just don’t know how I could fit them all in but that is something I would like to do if I had the time. I never say no to anything, you never know what you’ll end up doing. So I’ll never say never to that."

Q: You’ll also be releasing Live in Anaheim on DVD and CD. There`s a good spread of material from your whole career. Did you feel that you had to perform Priest songs with Halford or would you have preferred to go out and have Halford be seen as an altogether independent entity?

Halford: "It was the position I found myself in my career before I returned to Priest. It did cross my mind whether I should even bother releasing these songs but the fact is someone's got them somewhere on a bootleg anyway so it made sense to give them a decent treatment and get it out there. This was what I was doing at that time and although I was away from Priest, I was still connected musically. Those songs were what the fans were asking me to do and I was basically taking care of the fans needs by playing some of the Priest material alongside the Fight and Halford songs. Now I’m back with Priest I can probably focus more on the Halford songs when I play some solo shows later this year.

I’m really excited about being able to get this released. It goes back a few years and it’s been waiting in the vaults for an opportunity to get out there and show the band playing with that line up. The previous one was the Rock in Rio DVD when Pat and Ray were with me and this one there’s Roy Z, who also produces our stuff and Mike Davis on bass so it’s interesting to see that different line up. The material features a bit of everything. I think it’s cool to add to your collection if you’re so inclined."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, on Saturday, July 17th Halford, the band, played their first show in more than seven years in San Francisco, CA at the Regency Ballroom. The setlist on the night was as follows:

'Silent Screams'

'Made Of Metal'

'Resurrection'

'Made In Hell'

'Never Again'

'Drop Out'

'Golgotha'

'Heart Of A Lion'

'Never Satisfied'

'I Am Alive'

'Saviour'

'Crystal'

'Rock The World Forever'

Fan-filmed footage is available below.