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\nThe buzz surrounding legendary metal band JUDAS PRIEST’s forthcoming album, \u2018Firepower,\u2019 is undeniably growing louder – on the strength of the video clip for the track \u201cLightning Strike,\u201d as well as many of the attractive\/limited edition purchasing options made available for fans via PledgeMusic already being sold out. And it will soon reach a fever pitch with the unveiling of another new killer track, plus another limited edition of the forthcoming album being made available for purchase.<\/p>\n
Fans can now hear the title track from \u2018Firepower\u2019 via this link<\/a>, and can purchase a metallic silver-colored cassette version of the album on PledgeMusic <\/a>via and is being issued in an extremely limited pressing of only 300. And if judging from how quickly some of the previous limited edition bundles sold out via the site (such as signed guitars from Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, various colors of autographed vinyl, etc.), this rare cassette version will be an instant rarity and collector\u2019s item. If you haven\u2019t checked out the \u201cLightning Strike\u201d video or preordered the album, you can do so now by visiting the follow respective links: smarturl.it\/Firepower<\/a> and smarturl.it\/JPLightningStrikeVid<\/a><\/p>\n Set for release on Friday, March 9th, 2018 via Epic Records – the album is comprised of fourteen tracks of pure and highly inspired metal. And to mark the occasion Priest (singer Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis) has reunited with producer Tom Allom (the man behind the board for all of the band\u2019s releases from 1979-1988, including such stellar classics as \u2018Unleashed in the East,\u2019 \u2018British Steel,\u2019 \u2018Screaming for Vengeance\u2019 and ‘Defenders of the Faith’) and with Grammy Award-winning producer Andy Sneap also helping to raise the sonic bar even higher.<\/p>\n \u201cTom Allom has got this classic metal thing,\u201d explains Halford. \u201cAnd Andy is a bit more of a \u2018modern metal producer\u2019 but his thinking is a little bit different to Tom\u2019s. And I think to get this balance between that classic old school metal to what Andy\u2019s world is was just a remarkable coalescence.\u201d \u201cTom Allom has been with us since 1979, so his knowledge of ourselves and our music in general is immense,\u201d adds Hill. And according to Travis Priest returned back to a recording method that worked incredibly well on the band\u2019s earlier classics – \u201cWe went back to the organic way of recording where it\u2019s all of us in a room and we got to play together.\u201d <\/p>\n With the impending arrival of \u2018Firepower\u2019 and its ensuing tour (which kicks off on March 13th), THE PRIEST IS BACK!<\/p>\n \u2018FIREPOWER\u2019 TRACK LISTING:<\/p>\n 1. Firepower <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The buzz surrounding legendary metal band JUDAS PRIEST’s forthcoming album, \u2018Firepower,\u2019 is undeniably growing louder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65039,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65033\/revisions\/65039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Lightning Strike
\n3. Evil Never Dies
\n4. Never The Heroes
\n5. Necromancer
\n6. Children of the Sun
\n7. Guardians
\n8. Rising From Ruins
\n9. Flame Thrower
\n10. Spectre
\n11. Traitors Gate
\n12. No Surrender
\n13. Lone Wolf
\n14. Sea of Red
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\nhttp:\/\/judaspriest.com<\/a><\/p>\n