Judas Priest To Release New Live DVD Next Year

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In a recent interview with Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford revealed that the band will be filming their upcoming tour for a live DVD release next year. The tour will feature the band performing their legendary "British Steel" album in full. You can read some excerpts of the interview below.

On speaking on the bands longevity and contunued success, Halford stated:

"If you love what you do, you're going to put your heart and soul into it and that's what we do in PRIEST. You have to think consistently about your longevity. If you've had a long journey in rock 'n' roll, you put value and importance to those songs, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of times you've played them. Because at that particular moment when you're standing on the stage in, say, the Detroit area and you're playing 'Breaking the Law' for what may feel like the millionth time, it's for the first time in that moment in time."

On celebrating the upcoming 30th anniversary of the "British Steel", originally issued in April 1980, by performing the album in its entirety for the first time on stages across the United States:

"We'll be recording all these shows and, at some point, we'll bring cameras in and we'll release a wonderful package of the PRIEST and 'British Steel' next year, which is the official 30th birthday.

"We wanted to do something a bit different on the second leg of the American tour. The first tour with Metal Masters was a great success. We were looking to give this particular tour another kind of exciting event edge to it. I think that's what we've got with presenting 'British Steel', and we have some other great people with us. We have David [Coverdale] and WHITESNAKE. That's another great opportunity to see two of these bands back to back. We have POP EVIL opening for us, which are doing great things in rock radio right now. They have a Top 10 rock-radio track right now, so it's got to be exciting for those boys. So, all in all, it's going to be a real wonderful night out for metal heads and rock heads."