Legendary 70s rockers forced to cancel concert hours before going on stage

Judas Priest person canceled an upcoming halt connected their Invincible Shield Tour conscionable hours earlier they were owed connected stage.

The dense metallic band, currently made up of Rob Halford, Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton, Scott Travis and Richie Faulkner, are presently performing crossed the US to observe their latest album, Invincible Shield.

The Breaking The Law singers precocious rocked out successful Phoenix, Las Vegas, LA, Reno and Portland, and were owed to instrumentality to the signifier astatine Sugar Land successful Houston, Texas tonight.

However, the radical – archetypal formed successful 1969 – issued a connection connected social media, explaining that they had to scrap the planned gig owed to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.

‘We are notifying you with an update to your event,’ the connection read. ‘Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Judas Priest amusement connected October 22 astatine Smart Financial Centre astatine Sugar Land has been canceled.

‘Refunds volition beryllium disposable astatine the constituent of purchase.’

While they didn’t springiness immoderate further details away, they added: ‘If you purchased from a third-party reseller (Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek, VividSeats) etc, delight scope retired to your constituent of purchase.’

Judas Priest are slated to execute successful Austin connected Thursday, earlier bringing the US limb of their circuit to an extremity successful Dallas connected Saturday, with nary existent changes to those dates.

The rockers were archetypal formed successful Birmingham successful 1969 and changeable to fame with the merchandise of their debut album, Rocka Rolla, 5 years later.

Over the years, they person dropped records including Killing Machine, Screaming for Vengeance, Ram It Down, Turbo and Redeemer of Souls.

Their latest medium was unveiled earlier this twelvemonth and changeable to the apical of the charts astir the world, including Sweden, Switzerland and Germany.

Rob antecedently opened up astir beingness connected circuit and shared that Texas has a peculiar spot successful the group’s bosom and history, telling the Houston Chronicle: ‘When Priest archetypal came to America successful the precocious 70s, Houston already knew us.

‘Texas already knew us, Dallas, San Antonio, this portion of America had already tuned successful and turned on. Texas was waiting, Houston was waiting, done the large works that immoderate of our friends successful stone vigor were doing, spreading the dense metallic gospel.

‘We spent a batch of clip successful Texas. We couldn’t judge that determination were truthful galore places to spell to. Everybody wanted to spot Priest, and that ne'er near us, that generous Texas heart. It’s a joyousness to travel back. We’re finishing successful Texas.’

He besides celebrated the immense absorption that the set person been met with successful caller times, sharing that they are ‘thriving’.

During an quality connected Full Metal Jackie, via Blabbermouth, helium declared: ‘It’s conscionable this wonderful, fantastic renaissance going around, not lone for Priest, but for metallic successful general, for bands that were determination from the start.

‘Our bully friends Saxon, who we worked with precocious successful Europe – we were selling retired places each implicit Europe due to the fact that radical not lone are the fans of the band, but determination are besides radical that were possibly connected the extracurricular looking and going, “I’ve got to cheque this out. What is this happening now? Why is determination specified a buzz astir these bands?” And truthful we’re thriving connected that.

‘We’re truthful grateful and honored and humbled to beryllium successful this spot each these years aboriginal and inactive person this happening called relevance. We’re a applicable dense metallic set that’s not surviving connected their past glories.

‘And there’s thing incorrect with that. But we’ve ever felt that who we are and what we’re astir is typical of what we’re doing and saying now.

‘So to person this glorious acquisition with Invincible Shield, and it’s not dissipating. There’s inactive tremendous emotion and involvement for that peculiar medium and this band.

‘And truthful we’re conscionable retired determination roaring away, giving you each of these moments from Priest right from the opening of our metallic lives to wherever we are close present with Invincible Shield.’

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