{"id":79576,"date":"2020-02-18T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79576"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:25:44","slug":"kks-priest-officially-announce-band-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79576","title":{"rendered":"KK\u2019s PRIEST &#8211; Officially Announce Band Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kkspriest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79577\" width=\"503\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kkspriest.jpg 830w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kkspriest-600x253.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kkspriest-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kkspriest-768x324.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Fans are well aware that former <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> guitarist <strong>K.K. Downing<\/strong> did not exactly get along well with his ex-bandmates in the legendary English outfit. Downing retired from the group back in 2011 &#8220;amid differences with them and their management,&#8221; now he is back to stick the knife of animosity in even deeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The legendary guitarist has decided to form his own version of <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong>. <em>No, this is not a hoax.<\/em> He has recruited ex-<strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> vocalist <strong>Tim \u201cRipper\u201d Owens<\/strong> to front it and former <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> drummer <strong>Les Binks<\/strong> to take on the percussion duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Dubbed <strong>KK\u2019s Priest<\/strong>, the trio are rounded out by bassist <strong>Tony Newton<\/strong> (<strong>Voodoo Six<\/strong>) and guitarist <strong>A.J. Mills<\/strong> (<strong>Hostile<\/strong>). Work is underway on a debut album which will be released this year via <strong>Explorer1 Music Group<\/strong>. <strong>Downing<\/strong> commented of his plans for the group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cForging ahead with <strong>KK\u2019s Priest<\/strong> was not only inevitable, but was essential for me to perform and deliver everything that is expected from me and <strong>KK\u2019s Priest<\/strong>. Due to the massive demand and overwhelming support from fans around the world, I feel this is where I belong, and a set combining the true, classic songs and sound of <strong>Priest<\/strong>, together with great, newly forged metal tracks, is what fans can expect when <strong>KK\u2019s Priest<\/strong> is taking to stages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans are well aware that former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing did not exactly get&#8230;<\/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-79576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576","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=79576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79579,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79576\/revisions\/79579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}