Judas Priest Reveals New Album Surprise Details, Invincible Shield

Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford (right) with guitarist Richie Faulkner (Instagram @judaspriest)

JAKARTA - Judas Priest surprised fans at a concert on Saturday night by revealing the details of their new album.

While appearing at the Power Trip Indio festival, California, the band announced the long-awaited 19th studio album, Invincible Shield.

This will be Judas Priest's first album in six years, following the album Firepower in 2018. The first single from the new album, Panic Attack, will be released on October 13. The new album will follow next year on March 8.

Watch the album announcement below:

THE NEW ALBUM. INVINCIBLE SHIELD. MARCH 8TH 2024. PRE-ORDER NOW. https://t.co/9hOUgmia8a pic.twitter.com/GjqFLSBDhe

— Judas Priest (@judaspriest) October 8, 2023

THE NEW ALBUM. INVINCIBLE SHIELD. MARCH 8TH 2024. PRE-ORDER NOW. https://t.co/9hOUgmia8a pic.twitter.com/GjqFLSBDhe

Halford provided the latest news about the band's 19th album in 2020, telling interviewers that the album was being compiled, although in an unusual way due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"We've started working on it (a new album)," Halford told Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3. We had some great writing sessions earlier this year until the world stalled at the end of March.

I'm back here [returning] to Phoenix just to relax for a moment and get ready for another writing session. That's why we need to do it as a band. You do a lot of work and then you leave it and then you come back there again and analyze it back and continue the growth of the album," he said.

That's what we did at that time, and we're still doing it until now we're still compiling it little by little. This is an unusual way of making an album, but we're not the only band to experience this situation in terms of creativity. You can't let this pandemic stop you; you have to try and keep getting as much life as you can."