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Supergroup A NEW REVENGE (Feat. Tim Ripper Owens, Keri Kelli, James Kottak, Rudy Sarzo) To Release Debut Album “Enemies & Lovers” In March, First Single ‘The Way’ Out Today

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 8, 2019
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The LA Based outfit, A NEW REVENGE, featuring an all star line up will release their debut album, Enemies & Lovers on March 29th, 2019 via Golden Robot Records.

Supergroup is a term that has been diluted over time. Throwing a bunch of people from other bands into a new project doesn’t automatically make them Super, but their bio’s will tell you otherwise. It’s time to seek revenge and reclaim that word!

A NEW REVENGE is the very definition of a supergroup. One who’s members have more than earned their legendary statuses but also remain humble enough to let the music do the talking and not actually rely on the term. So who is out for A New Revenge?

Featuring one of the finest voices in metal of all time, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens (who’s voice is all over albums from Judas Priest, Iced Earth and Yngwie Malmsteen), one of the most versatile and name checked guitarists in rock Keri Kelli (Slash’s Snake Pit, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil Band and a hundred more) the most iconic bass player in heavy metal history, Rudy Sarzo (who’s work with Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Whitesnake and many more has earned him an almost revered status in heavy music) and long time Scorpions drummer James Kottak (also from Montrose, Warrant, Kingdom Come & more).

Keri Kelli, the bands guitarist says of A New Revenge coming together; “Beginning the songwriting process we said ‘Let’s get together and come up with three or four original songs.’ Without any pressure, just creating as we went. Finally we got to the eleven songs we were all happy with. ‘Here’s To Us’ was the first song we wrote for this record. It came very fast and was pretty simple to write. Its basically an ode to hard rock fans the planet over”

To further, Kelli comments on the album Enemies & Lovers “It’s been a long time coming but it’s completely finished mixed, mastered and all ready to go. We all really, really excited to finally unleash this on the hard rock community.”

A video for the first single from the albums release ‘The Way’ can be viewed here:

Due to scheduling conflicts, Sarzo was unable to attend the filming of A NEW REVENGE’s videos. The band’s good friend and renowned player Phil Soussan (OZZY OSBOURNE, LAST IN LINE) stepped in at the last minute to take his place.

A NEW REVENGE is greater than the sum of its parts, although its parts are pretty damn mind blowing!

A NEW REVENGE will hit the road across the U.S. in support “Enemies & Lovers” throughout 2019 and is looking at locking in a European tour later in the year. The foursome is an explosive combination with every band member’s skillset and battle tested charisma breaking through the bleak wasteland of current day modern heavy metal.

Razor sharp riffs, thunderous drums and those soaring vocals that come charging in from on high to lay waste to the landscape. A New Revenge are forged from the very heart of heavy metal.

Confirmed track listing for Enemies & Lovers
The Distance Between
The Way
Never Let You Go
Glorious
The Eyes
Fallen
Only The Pretty Ones
Enemies & Lovers
Here’s To Us
Scars

Enemies & Lovers will be released on Friday, March 29th, 2019.

Pre-Order the new album here: http://smarturl.it/anewrevenge

A EPK for the release can be found here :

For further information, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/anewrevenge

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OZZY OSBOURNE: First Four UK and Ireland Shows With JUDAS PRIEST Postponed Due To Illness

Posted by aliblackdiamond on January 28, 2019
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Just two days ahead of OZZY OSBOURNE‘s ‘No More Tours 2’ which was due to start in the UK and Ireland, it has been announced via the official JUDAS PRIEST Facebook page that the first four shows have been postponed due to illness. The statement reads as follows:

“It is with great regret we have to announce that the first four UK shows on the Ozzy Osbourne/Judas Priest tour have been postponed due to Ozzy having a very bad case of flu – therefore Dublin, Nottingham, Manchester and Newcastle will be rescheduled at a later date – details to follow once finalised – we are very sorry that this has happened and to disappoint so many fans – we wish Ozzy well and look forward to the Glasgow, Birmingham and London shows together – and to the rescheduled ones in the future.

JUDAS PRIEST – 28th January 2019”

The tour, which should have been starting in Dublin on 30th January, will then move onto Europe with special guests JUDAS PRIEST, before moving onto Australia and New Zealand in March.

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More information:

JUDAS PRIEST Official Website

OZZY OSBOURNE Official Website 

JUDAS PRIEST Announce Spring/Summer 2019 North American Tour

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 4, 2018
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Photo by Travis Shin

With JUDAS PRIEST’s latest studio album, Firepower, confirmed as one of the most successful of the band’s entire career – landing in the “top 5” of 17 countries (including their highest chart placement ever in the U.S., at #5) – demand to see the legendary metal band in concert is higher than ever.

And North American headbangers will get their chance to experience the legendary band on a nearby concert stage this coming spring/summer, when Priest will tour throughout the continent – with the classic metal band Uriah Heep as support.

Kicking off on May 3rd at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and wrapping up on June 29th at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, fans will get an opportunity to catch Priest at the height of their concert powers on any one of the tour’s 32 dates.

“Metal maniacs – Judas Priest is roaring back to the USA for one more blast of Firepower! Firepower 2019 charges forth with new first time performances born out of Firepower, as well as fresh classic cuts across the decades from the Priest world metalsphere. Our visual stage set and light show will be scorching a unique, hot, fresh vibe – mixing in headline festivals, as well as the in-your-face venue close ups. We can’t wait to reunite and reignite our maniacs…THE PRIEST IS BACK!” -Judas Priest

There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their nearly 50-year career – responsible for issuing such all-time classic albums as British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance, and Painkiller, as well as the anthems “Breaking the Law,” “Living After Midnight,” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming.”

And Priest’s presence and influence remains strong, as evidenced by the chart performance of ‘Firepower’ and its glowing reviews, a Grammy Award win for ‘Best Metal Performance’, plus being a VH1 Rock Honors recipient and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination.

Also, Priest can be credited as being one of the first metal bands to pioneer wearing leather and studs – a look that would eventually be embraced by metalheads throughout the world.

Undoubtedly, Judas Priest’s upcoming North American tour will only add to their ever-growing status of heavy metal legends.

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JUDAS PRIEST TOUR DATES:

DATE                  CITY                                   VENUE
05/03/19              Hollywood, FL                    Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
05/06/19              Nashville, TN                      Nashville Municipal Auditorium
05/08/19              Atlanta, GA                         Fox Theatre
05/09/19              Biloxi, MS                           Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
05/12/19              Washington, DC                 The Anthem
05/14/19              Huntington, NY                   The Paramount
05/15/19              Huntington, NY                   The Paramount
05/16/19              Uncasville, CT                     Mohegan Sun Arena
05/18/19              Albany, NY                          Palace Theatre
05/19/19              Albany, NY                          Palace Theatre
05/22/19              Milwaukee, WI                     Riverside Theater
05/23/19              Milwaukee, WI                     Riverside Theater
05/25/19              Rosemont, IL                       Rosemont Theatre
05/28/19              Austin, TX                            ACL Live at The Moody Theater
05/29/19              Austin, TX                            ACL Live at The Moody Theater
05/31/19              Dallas, TX                            The Bomb Factory
06/01/19              Little Rock, AR                     First Security Amphitheater
06/03/19              St. Louis, MO                       Stifel Theatre
06/05/19              Colorado Springs, CO          Broadmoor World Arena
06/08/19              Saskatoon, SK                     SaskTel Centre
06/10/19              Lethbridge, AB                      ENMAX Centre
06/11/19              Edmonton, AB                       Rogers Place
06/13/19              Dawson Creek, BC               Encana Events Centre
06/14/19              Prince George, BC                CN Centre
06/16/19              Kelowna, BC                         Prospera Place
06/17/19              Abbotsford, BC                     Abbotsford Centre
06/19/19              Airway Heights, WA              Northern Quest Resort and Casino
06/21/19              Kent, WA                               Accesso Showare Center
06/22/19              Portland, OR                         Moda Theatre of the Clouds
06/24/19              San Francisco, CA                Warfield Theatre
06/25/19              San Francisco, CA                Warfield Theatre
06/27/19              Los Angeles, CA                   Microsoft Theater
06/29/19              Las Vegas, NV                      The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel

 

K.K. Downing to Ian Hill: “If he was back in JUDAS PRIEST Richie could play Glenn’s guitar parts & he could play his own”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 6, 2018
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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice spoke to Former JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist K.K. Downing as he prepares to release his autobiography on September 18 2018. K.K. spoke about his relationship with Glenn Tipton, responds to Ian Hills claims on coming back to the band, talks Iron Maiden opening for Priest and the Ripper era.

Watch the interview here:

When asked how his relationship with Glenn Tipton changed over the years
“There always was a great amount mutual respect for each other and still is. We would spend more time together than any girlfriends or wives. We were very productive, very prolific and I think we were the driving force because we had to create the songs to be sung. It was an an awful amount of work and time spent together. Was there some competitive rivalry , not really on my behalf. I always felt like I was easy going because the most important thing to me was the band, the name Judas Priest. Myself and Glenn went through decades through thick and thin and it was a great relationship but idiosyncrasies started creeping in. I was a bit too easy going, my inspirations were to make the band big not myself big.”

“We divided the solos at the end of a recording I would have 10 and Glenn would have 10 but my 10 would be 15 second solos but Glenn’s were a lot longer, it went on a bit like that really and I kind of let that slip a little bit. But the albums, the songs were great and the solos were great .Inevitable without even knowing it some kind of pecking order starts to formulate that is why so many great bands didn’t last too long cause things get in the way. ”

When asked to respond to Ian Hills remarks saying he cannot come back to the band because he cannot do Glenn’s guitar parts
“I did not understand that , it was really weird because obviously, Richie plays both my parts and Glenn’s parts and I’m sure Richie would be the first one to say well K.K. you do your thing and I will continue to play Glenn;s guitar parts or we could do whose ever parts and pieces, there is a way to work everything out. It was never going to be the case that I would step into Glenn’s parts. I don’t understand what Ian was saying.”

When asked about how upset he was with Iron Maiden when they opened for Judas Priest in 1980, as Paul Di’anno kept saying in the press they would blow Priest off the stage
“Iron Maiden did their first UK tour and their first American tour with us, there was unsettlement in the camp. I guess to Iron Maiden it was all new to them and they were out there to overthrow the mighty Priest. But a lot of water is under the bridge today. I got to like Paul Dianno an awful lot in the mind 80’s I think he turned up in a hotel room and he said Kenny I really apologize about something he said in the newspaper. Paul’s a good guy and I understand people when they are young want to go out there and conquer the world, I think I understand it better now then I did at the time. ”

When asked about the Ripper era of Judas Priest
“Tim Owens did a fantastic job, what an incredible guy, he is a fantastic singer. We would come off the stage doing a fantastic gig and Ripper totally killed it but you would still get fans backstage saying hey K.K. when is Rob Halford coming back and that was kind of the theme throughout. Apart from the odd exception its one voice for one band and that is what the fans wanted. Priest had such a legacy with so many songs with Rob singing on them that there is always a requirement for the fans to have Rob back .”

When asked if he regretted leaving the band
“No, No because, myself and Glenn even though we were much a partnership we would do things differently on stage, Glenn was a bit more Rock and Roll having beers and I was totally attentive, perfection, every note every beat. So we kind of drifted apart that way. I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I felt I should. I like to give 100 percent I think that is what the fans travel for and pay for. ”

When asked if he should have spoken out on how he felt like he was being treated
“I did, not in a cool calm collective way but it didn’t have the desired effect.”

JUDAS PRIEST To Be Inducted Into The Hall Of Heavy Metal History At Wacken Open Air 2018

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 30, 2018
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Iconic metal gods JUDAS PRIEST will be Inducted into The Hall of Heavy Metal History in 2018. The Ceremony will take place August 2, 2018 at Wacken Open Air, the world’s largest Heavy Metal festival.

The induction will take place just before the JUDAS PRIEST perform one of the biggest shows of their current ‘Firepower’ world tour.

“We have made sure that Judas Priest finally gets the Induction and respect they truly deserve,” says Pat Gesualdo, Founder/CEO of The Hall of Heavy Metal History. “We thank them for the decades of hard work and dedication to Heavy Metal, an art form they helped establish.”

An official statement from the band reads: “Judas Priest are thrilled and honored to accept induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal History and be amongst so many of our friends. This also sends a great message of inclusion for the Metal community around the world, and keeps us defending the Metal faith together.”

More information at http://www.thehallofheavymetalhistory.org

JUDAS PRIEST: New Music Video For “No Surrender” Unleashed

Posted by tarjavirmakari on July 26, 2018
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JUDAS PRIEST’s latest studio album, Firepower, was released March 9, 2018, via Epic Records. Co-produced by Tom Allom and Andy Sneap, the 14-track album has become one of the most successful of the band’s entire career – landing in the “top-5” of 17 countries (including their highest chart placement ever in the U.S.), and scoring their highest charting commercial rock radio single in decades with “Lightning Strike” (for which a music video was also filmed).

JUDAS PRIEST’s new music video, “No Surrender” is now available for viewing via http://smarturl.it/NoSurrenderVid or watch it below. “’No Surrender’ captures the true metal fighting spirit and metalheads around the world find a united voice within the message of this song,” says the band. “When you honestly believe in yourself and live your life the way you have the right to with no surrender, then nothing will ever stop you from living your dream.”

Few heavy metal bands have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their near 50-year career, and with a line-up featuring Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, Richie Faulkner, Ian Hill, and Scott Travis, Judas Priest will be scorching across North America with some heavy metal Firepower again this summer and fall on tour with Deep Purple! For more information, please visit judaspriest.com.

JUDAS PRIEST TOUR DATES:

8/21 — Cincinnati, OH — Riverbend Music Center
8/22 — Chicago, IL — Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
8/24 — Detroit, MI — Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
8/25 — Mt. Pleasant, MI — Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort
8/27 — Hamilton, ON — FirstOntario Centre
8/29 — Montreal, QC — Bell Centre
8/30 — Quebec City, QC — Centre Videotron
9/1 — Wantagh, NY — Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
9/2 — Bethel Woods, NY — Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
9/5 — Darien Center, NY — Darien Lake Amphitheater
9/6 — Holmdel, NJ — PNC Bank Arts Center
9/8 — Virginia Beach, VA — Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
9/9 — Camden, NJ — BB&T Pavilion
9/11 — Charlotte, NC — PNC Music Pavilion
9/12 — Jacksonville, FL — Daily’s Place
9/14 — Atlanta, GA — Verizon Amphitheatre
9/16 — Biloxi, MS — Mississippi Coast Coliseum
9/18 — Kansas City, MO — Starlight Theatre
9/20 — Welch, MN — Treasure Island Casino
9/21 — Council Bluffs, IA — Harrah’s Council Bluffs
9/23 — Denver, CO — Pepsi Center
9/26 — San Diego, CA — Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
9/27 — Irvine, CA — FivePoint Amphitheatre
9/29 — Mountain View, CA — Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/30 — Wheatland, CA — Toyota Amphitheatre