JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner was interviewed by Sweetwater editorial director Mitch Gallagher during “Making Hard Rock Look Easy”, a three-day recording master class which was held October 20-22 at Sweetwater’s campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaking about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for JUDAS PRIEST’s follow-up to 2014’s “Redeemer Of Souls” album, Richie said: “I just flew straight back out of the U.K., straight to Sweetwater. We’ve just been in the studio for a couple of months putting songs together. We haven’t started the recording process yet, but we’re recording demos; we’re recording songs that work without the production to save them, if you know what I mean. But the core value… We’re putting down some grassroots ideas and fleshing them out for the next PRIEST record. So we’re gonna go into the studio to start recording in January. So it should be out sometime next year. But we’re not touring next year. So we’re gonna be touring, hopefully, in 2018.“
