{"id":82786,"date":"2020-09-08T08:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82786"},"modified":"2020-09-08T08:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:58:01","slug":"judas-priest-new-coffee-table-book-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82786","title":{"rendered":"JUDAS PRIEST &#8211; New Coffee Table Book Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Judas Priest&#039;s Rob Halford interview #2 with Darren Paltrowitz\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYctPIkCM90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>JUDAS PRIEST<\/strong> will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with the upcoming new coffee table book, \u2018<strong>Judas Priest \u2013 50 Heavy Metal Years<\/strong>\u2018. The book is the first-ever official one to see a release from the band and pre-orders for it will launch this Friday, September 11th. According to an official press release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2018This huge, 648 page coffee table book chronicles the history of the world\u2019s foremost heavy metal band using hundreds of unseen, unpublished photographs from Rock\u2019s greatest photographers including <strong>Ross Halfin<\/strong>, <strong>Neil Zlozower<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Weiss<\/strong>, <strong>Fin Costello<\/strong>, <strong>Oliver Halfin<\/strong> and many more. &#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">With a linking text by renowned journalist <strong>Mark Blake<\/strong> the book explores the bands exciting history on stage and off in a unique photo documentary designed to excite fans and devotees of true heavy metal the world over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Current band members have all contributed to the book with written pieces detailing their love and passion for the band, making this an extraordinary artefact for their legions of followers. The book features an exclusive cover by <strong>Mark Wilkinson<\/strong> who has worked with the band for many years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Glenn Tipton<\/strong> comments \u201cWe spear-headed the visual image of metal \u2013 breathing new life into it and it has been captured forever in the pages of this book\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Rufus Publications<\/strong> are making 4 incredible editions of the book available including an edition designed to raise money for <strong>The Glenn Tipton Parkinson\u2019s Foundation<\/strong> and a giant 410mm square edition supplied in a beautiful black metal slipcase \u2013 the book will ship in early December in time for Christmas.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Further details are available <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/JP50Book\">here<\/a>. Meanwhile, the band\u2019s frontman <strong>Rob Halford<\/strong> has started work on a solo blues album. He\u2019s been forging ahead on it with his brother <strong>Nigel<\/strong> and his nephew <strong>Alex<\/strong>, who he previously worked with on his Christmas album last year, \u201c<strong>Celestial<\/strong>\u201c. He recently commented to the \u2018<strong>Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz<\/strong>\u2018 of that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe\u2019re slowly putting bits and pieces together. There\u2019s no timeline on it. We\u2019re kicking the tires, and I\u2019ve already got some bits of ideas here and there, and they sound great.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: The PRP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUDAS PRIEST will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with the upcoming new coffee table book,&#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-82786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82786","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=82786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82788,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82786\/revisions\/82788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}