Is a brand new Judas Priest album within the works? It might actually seem so, in keeping with a short remark made by guitarist Richie Faulkner in a brand new interview.

Priest’s most up-to-date album, Invincible Protect, landed in 2024, and it could appear the English quintet are eyeing up a followup. Although his reply is transient, when requested concerning the standing of a possible twentieth studio album, Faulkner confirms: “We’ve began recording it.”

“We had been within the studio for a month in February laying the inspiration,” he tells Canada’s The Steel Voice [via Blabbermouth]. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that, however I’ve mentioned it!”

That’s all we all know for now, and it could be some time earlier than we truly hear any materials from the album, however for now, affirmation is sweet sufficient for us.

Richie Faulkner joined Judas Priest in 2011, changing KK Downing. “They’ve been doing it for 50-odd years,” he says. “I’m a part of the staff now, and it’s the crew and administration and everybody that pitches collectively to make that machine roll.

“And I can see how they’ve been doing it for that lengthy. I’ve mentioned to you guys earlier than – they find it irresistible. And we’ll do a tour after which we’ll get excited and do an album, and then you definitely get excited for the album and do one other tour. So I can see the way it occurs. And we’re doing one other album, and we’ll most likely tour that.

Richie Faulkner’s profession was placed on maintain when he suffered an aortic aneurysm whereas performing onstage with Priest at Louder Than Life Competition in 2021. He subsequently underwent 10-hour emergency open coronary heart surgical procedure and has since recovered.

Regardless of the years which have handed since, Faulkner lately revealed that he continues to work with a physio “3 times a day” to handle the injury the incident prompted to his physique.

I’ve had a little bit of collateral injury on my proper aspect with stuff related to what occurred. So I’ve to work on that,” he mentioned.

Elsewhere within the new interview, Faulkner touches on the upcoming Ballad of Judas Priest documentary, which chronicles 50 years of Judas Priest.

“It’s very well put collectively, and it goes by way of the story of the place they began and what they went by way of and every little thing like that and talks to totally different individuals about Priest’s affect on them.

“There’s an incredible bit in it the place they return to, I feel it’s a working man’s membership in Aston [United Kingdom] or someplace like that, the place they performed their first present, and Ian’s [Hill, Judas Priest bassist] in there and he’s sitting down, and it’s nonetheless there. And he’s within the membership, and you’ll see the stage the place they carried out and every little thing. It’s nonetheless there, man. And it’s nice, as a fan, to see that stuff. I haven’t seen that stuff earlier than. So it’s actually good. When it comes out, it’s best to positively test it out.”