Guesting on The Jasta Show, hosted by Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta, former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing commented on the fact that the band's Jugulator (1997) and Demolition (2001) albums - are no longer available to the public. Both records feature vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens, Rob Halford's replacement.

Downing: "CMC (International) and the guys that were the labels are defunct now, so the rights to the albums reverted back to us, Judas Priest. I'm a 25 percent shareholder (in the band) but I don't have a say in what goes on. I was a director and they kicked me off the board because there's three of them and one of me, which is a bit mean. I would fight for the right every day to have those albums (available) because I'm a part of them. The ongoing fight to have those albums in a public domain is something I feel very, very strong about, and obviously Ripper does, and everybody should that played on those records. Why would you denounce albums that you spent years working on or were a part of? It doesn't make any sense."

Back in 2018, a Facebook user and fan of former Judas Priest vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens recently posted the following message on Owens' official Facebook page:

Dear Mr Owens, it has come to mine & thousands of other fans attention that there are Judas Priest albums on Vinyl that has been deleted off the production print line for quite a number of years now & 4 out of the 5 albums are yours that have been deleted from print production are as follows :

1. Jugulator - 1997
2. 98 Live Meltdown - 1998 
3. Demolition - 2001 
4. Live In London - 2003

Could you please get onto the record companies & ask them to re-release all ( 5 Priest Albums ) on vinyl again for the fans?

Many thanks

Kind Regards,
Mr Alexander King

To which Owens responded:

"Yep. Great to see my time in JP has erased and my CDs and ME from their past! Well, I haven’t forgotten my past and I will be working on re-recording the studio CDs and releasing them myself! Why not?"