Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford, with guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, recently spoke with Greg Prato of Songfacts. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Halford on songwriting: "You try everything if you're in a band. If somebody has an idea and you say, 'Have you thought about this?' If that person goes, 'No, that sucks,' well, how can you say it sucks if you haven't tried it? You try everything, and then you make a determined assessment of the possibility."

"With us, we've never been afraid to speak up and step up and say, 'I've been thinking about this, let me try to explain.' We've never shut each other down and said, 'That's fucking stupid.' We've always said, 'Yeah, well, let's see what can come of it,' and sometimes it happens and sometimes maybe half of it will happen, so you keep that half and you know you've got that in a vault somewhere. So try everything as a musician; the possibilities are endless."

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Judas Priest is featured in a two-hour showcase for their new album, Redeemer Of Souls, launched by Noize In The Attic. Vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner are special guests on the show, which includes interviews, classic cuts and covers of classic Priest tracks by other artists including Iced Earth, The Donnas and Slayer:

It all started out forty headbanging and glorious years in Birmingham, England as the mighty metal gods came roaring out of that legendary steel town set to take heavy metal to unlimited and unprecedented heights that would forever transform the genre for four decades. The Priest machine, highly well oiled and back with its strong 17th studio album in Redeemer Of Souls, is set to explode on the masses again with a mammoth US arena tour this fall.

WVOX Metal Mayhem host and Bravewords correspondent Matthew O'Shaughnessy again rolled out the red carpet for iconic Judas Priest singer Rob Halford, who was the very special featured guest on his worldwide radio show, where Halford spoke in detail about the British group's latest album and several tracks from the album individually. "Raising the bar is consistent for us and Redeemer Of Souls hits the ground running!" says Judas Priest. During the on air chat, The Metal God also talks about Priest's upcoming US fall tour, and never-ending devout loyal support of their fans.

Check out the entire chat below:

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