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Judas Priest - Firepower (2018)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: 10 Mar 2018 09:37:42

Firepower is the upcoming 18th studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It is the first studio album since 1988's Ram It Down to be produced by Tom Allom, and the first one with Andy Sneap as co-producer.

In an interview with Reverb.com in November 2015, Richie Faulkner said that Judas Priest would start work on a new album in 2016. In April 2016, Loudwire posted a photo showing Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton and Faulkner himself in the studio beginning the process of the album, with Halford stating in a radio interview that the album would be ready by early 2017. During an interview at the 2016 edition of the Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp, Halford expressed dissatisfaction on making a Redeemer of Souls part two: "I think it's very important that we make another stand alone record again, a heavy metal record that's going to have its own legs and just be as different as all of them have been so far." He describes the album as "some of our best work — without a doubt", praising Faulkner for his contributions.

When asked on whether it was a conscious effort to revisit some of the band's musical past on the album, or if it came about organically and naturally, drummer Scott Travis said, "I would say it's a little bit of both. Obviously, you'd have to ask that of Richie and Rob and Glenn as far as, did they intentionally write some guitar parts like that? But keep in mind Richie certainly wasn't part of those old records and neither was I, so I don't know if it was a conscious effort, really, on their writing behalf. But from recording and then, obviously, having Andy Sneap and Tom Allom… Now Tom Allom was part of the old Priest heritage and the Priest sound, so to speak, and so he was able to, I think, incorporate and bring some of that old style back. And then Andy also, even though he is what I would call a modern-day producer, he's a big Priest fan and he lived on the lineage and just understood the Priest world and the heritage of Priest, so he was a big fan of the older records and the older sound, so it definitely was a conscious effort on their parts, as well as ours in the performing aspect of it. I mean, even some of the drum stuff I did, I wanted to borrow a little bit of Les Binks, some of his influence, which I'm a big fan of his anyway from way back in the day. So, yeah, it was conscious, but I don't know if it was written in there like that. Maybe, hopefully it just came out that way, like you said, organically, which was cool that you were able to recognize that." Travis sites the songs "Rising from Ruins", "Lone Wolf", "Evil Never Dies" and "Never the Heroes" as his favourite songs. He then went on to say that the production is an improvement over the previous album, "…we have two different producers on this record that we didn't have on Redeemer, so anytime you change producers, you're automatically gonna get a different sound. And that's usually what bands are looking for — that's why you hire different producers. We did record in a much more organic way than I'd certainly done since Painkiller; I have to say that. So, again, hopefully that translates and comes through on the recording that you and the fans will be able to hear and appreciate and hopefully like. And, like I said, Andy is great and he knows how to get great modern sounds — drums, guitars and yada yada. He's a guitar player himself, so that's why the guitars are so goddamn loud, but that's just me. [Laughs] I'm kidding. But anyways… So, yeah, the proof is in the pudding. You have new producers, you're gonna have a new sound."

Halford and Travis explained how Firepower was chosen as the title for the band's album, with Travis saying, "You have the songs, you know, 14 songs, and one of them was "Firepower", so it usually makes sense to try and pick one of those songs as the title." Halford then elaborated, "If you've got a strong title, it conveys the content of your music – the whole piece, then you couldn't go wrong with a statement like Firepower, you know, the fire and the power of heavy metal music. You're married up to this amazing piece of art that's been created for us, and uh, it all makes sense, so, you know, Firepower, Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith, British Steel, Sad Wings of Destiny. They all sound great, don't they? They got to have some strength and conviction in the statement that Firepower certainly does."

Tracklist:
1. Firepower 3:27
2. Lightning Strike 3:29
3. Evil Never Dies 4:23
4. Never the Heroes 4:24
5. Necromancer 3:33
6. Children of the Sun 4:00
7. Guardians 1:06
8. Rising From Ruins 5:23
9. Flame Thrower 4:34
10. Spectre 4:25
11. Traitors Gate 5:43
12. No Surrender 2:54
13. Lone Wolf 5:09
14. Sea of Red 5:51

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Judas Priest / Firepower

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