Judas Priest have introduced their first tour dates of 2026.
The Faithkeepers tour will see the tireless heavy steel legends carry out in ten European cities in July and August. You’ll be able to see the whole schedule beneath.
The brand new tour identify brings to thoughts the title of the band’s basic 1984 album Defenders of the Religion, dwelling to fashionable tracks resembling “Freewheel Burning,” “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll” and “Love Bites.”
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On Oct. 26 Judas Priest concluded their 45-date Defend of Ache tour in Woodlands, Texas. The tour, which kicked off in Finland in June, discovered the band celebrating the thirty fifth anniversary of their 1990 album Painkiller by together with over a half-dozen of its tracks of their set checklist.
The group’s most up-to-date album was 2024’s Invincible Defend. Earlier this 12 months bassist Ian Hill confirmed that the group was planning to enter the studio in 2026 to file what could be their twentieth file.
How Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne Wound Up Singing ‘Conflict Pigs’ Collectively
The group just lately collaborated with the late Ozzy Osbourne on a canopy of the Black Sabbath basic “Conflict Pigs.”
Judas Priest initially recorded the track by themselves, as a approach to contribute to Osbourne’s Again to the Starting farewell live performance regardless that they had been beforehand dedicated to performing on the Scorpions’ sixtieth anniversary live performance.
When Osbourne’s spouse and supervisor Sharon heard the outcomes, she advised the collaboration. “So that you get Ozzy singing a line after which I am singing a line and Ozzy’s singing a line and I am singing a line,” singer Rob Halford instructed Full Steel Jackie. “It is the primary ever time in my total life that I have been capable of do a duet with Ozzy and I am so eternally grateful and blessed that I used to be ready to try this… it is simply going to a extremely particular place.”
Judas Priest 2026 Faithkeepers 2026 Tour Dates
July 26: Neu-Ulm, Germany – Wileysportpark
July 28: Warsaw, Poland – Torwar
Aug. 2: Ostrava, Czech Republic – Ostrava Enviornment
Aug. 4: Bratislava, Slovakia – Nepala Enviornment
Aug. 6: Halle, Germany – Messehalle
Aug. 12: Tilburg, The Netherlands – O13
Aug. 16: Carhaix-Plougher, France – Motorcultur Competition
Aug. 18: Pamplona, Spain – Navarra Enviornment
Aug. 20: Valencia, Spain – Navarra Enviornment
Aug. 23: Goarshausen, German – Loreley Amphitheatre
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