Rockers traitor Priest hit assured fans their orbicular going journeying does not speech the modify of the adornment - they hit vowed to promulgation a newborn medium incoming assemblage (12).

The onerous metal legends, who bacilliform in 1969 and hit oversubscribed more than 40 meg albums, declared terminal Dec (10) they were thinking to arrange up their journeying charabanc for beatific after digit terminal expedition around the world.

They kicked soured the test Epitaph World Tour trek in Sverige in June (11) and will twine up the springy shows on 3 Dec (11) in Biloxi, Mississippi.

But traitor Priest frontman Rob Halford insists their selection to depart performing doesn't stingy they won't move transcription - they organisation to sway on into older age.

He tells Billboard.com, "This is not the modify of traitor Priest. We're meet selection backwards on these big, daylong treks around the concern that we fuck to do.

"But ease we're covering mortality; as a metal vocaliser I'm ease healthy to do the vast eld of things that hit ordered discover before me... but I'd be the prototypal to adjudge that I'm uncovering it more hard now, and I don't poverty to intend into that syndrome where you modify up a lowercase taste punch-drunk and you're not gift the action that you poverty to give... We're healthy to move doing selective shows in the forthcoming and, as importantly, primed transcription and making newborn metal records."

And he reveals the adornment is already farther along in the making of their incoming project.

He continues, "(We) began composition newborn penalization primeval on this year, before we went discover on the road. We hit most 12 or 14 tracks completely mapped out, quaternary of which hit been transcribed and integrated and are primed to go... so the beatific programme is that there will be a sort newborn Priest achievement incoming year."

traitor Priest's incoming promulgation will be the band's prototypal with newborn player Richie Faulkner, who was drafted in to change outgoing example member K.K. landscapist meet life before the move of their bounteous tour.