The song includes a lyric video
British heavy metal legends Judas Priest has released “Trial By Fire,” the second single from their upcoming studio album, Invincible Shield, due March 8, 2024, via Sony Music. In addition, the band has released an official lyric video.
The song follows “Panic Attack,” a classic slice of Judas Priest at their very best with soaring guitars and vocals that will whet the appetites of fans around the globe.
The band will embark on its Invincible Shield Tour with special guest Sabaton in 2024. The all-time greats will take over the US this spring with 14 shows. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on April 18th at Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, CT making stops in Reading, PA; Boston, MA; Rosemont, IL; Washington, DC and more before wrapping up in Syracuse, NY at Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview on May 22nd.
Over the past 50 years, Judas Priest’s music has come to define the metal genre with benchmark albums that have sold in their millions globally and sold out tours that have seen them headline the world’s biggest stadiums. With their evolving music and live performances also came a powerful unique identity – a look which has both defined the group and influenced future generations of metal bands.
Judas Priest formed in 1970 in Birmingham, England, an area where many feel birthed heavy metal. The original nucleus of musicians would go on to change the face of heavy metal. Throughout the 70s Priest were responsible for helping trailblaze metal with such classic offerings as Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) Sin After Sin (1977) and Hell Bent for Leather (1978) as well as one of the genre’s top live recordings Unleashed in the East (1979) among others.
It was during the 80s that Priest conquered the world, becoming a global arena headliner on the strength of such all-time classics as British Steel (1980) and Screaming for Vengeance (1982), as well as being one of the first metal bands to be embraced by the then-burgeoning MTV, plus performing at some of the decades biggest concerts and being the first to exclusively wear leather and studs – a look that began during this era and would eventually be embraced by metal heads throughout the world. Priest’s success continued throughout the 90s and beyond with the addition of drummer Scott Travis, as evidenced by such additional stellar offerings as Painkiller (1990) Angel of Retribution (2005), and A Touch of Evil: Live (2009) the latter of which saw Priest win a Grammy Award for a killer rendition of the classic Dissident Aggressor.
Ahead of their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year, the group commemorated 50 million albums sold.
