Founding Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing quit the iconic metal band seven years ago, but he's looking back on his time with the British metal titans in his new autobiography Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest. In a new interview with Rock Music Star, Downing once again addressed the issue of not being invited to rejoin the band when guitarist Glenn Tipton announced he was stepping back from touring due to his ongoing battle with Parkinson's.

He also discusses his curent relationship with his former bandmates, and Judas Priest's upcoming 50th Anniversary in the clip below.

Downing recently uploaded a new video promoting his new autobiography, Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest, released last week.

K.K. Downing's autobiography is out now via Da Capo Press. Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest is available to order here.

Both the front and back covers of the book can be viewed below.

A book synopsis states: Judas Priest formed in the industrial city of Birmingham,

England, in 1968. With its distinctive twin-guitar sound, studs-and-leather image, and international sales of over 50 million records, Judas Priest became the archetypal heavy metal band in the 1980s. Iconic tracks like “Breaking The Law”, “Living After Midnight”, and “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” helped the band achieve extraordinary success, but no one from the band has stepped out to tell their or the band’s story until now.

As the band approaches its golden anniversary, fans will at last be able to delve backstage into the decades of shocking, hilarious, and haunting stories that surround the heavy metal institution. In Heavy Duty guitarist K.K. Downing discusses frontman Rob Halford’s hidden sexuality, the personality conflicts, the business screw-ups, the acrimonious relationship with fellow heavy metal band Iron Maiden, and how Judas Priest was at ground zero for the parental outrage targeting heavy metal in the ’80s. Lastly, he reveals the life-changing moment when he looked at his bandmates on stage during a 2010 concert and thought, “This is the last show.” Whatever the topic, whoever’s involved, K.K. doesn’t hold back.

With the band at the beginning through his retirement in 2010 (and even still as a member of the band’s board of directors), Downing has seen it all and is now finally at a place in his life where he can also let it all go. Even if you’re a lifelong fan, if you think you know the full story of Judas Priest, well, you’ve got another thing coming.