Invincible Shield

Invincible Shield is the nineteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Announced onstage at Power Trip festival in California, the new record marks the band's first release in 6 years, having recently celebrated 50 years in music.
Judas Priest have been in a class of their own for decades now. It’d be easy to wax lyrical on how crazy it is that the Brummie legends are at their top of their game in their sixth decade as a band, or how wild that frontman Rob Halford is still the gold-studded standard for metal frontmen at 72 years old, or how staggering that they still go about their business with the insatiable vigour of artists with anything left to prove…

More than 50 years into their heavy metal legacy, Judas Priest are still screaming at full power on their 19th studio full-length Invincible Shield. The album, their first studio effort of its kind since 2018's Firepower, is again produced by the band's touring guitarist Andy Sneap, and its 14 songs stretch out at over just an hour-long runtime. The album charges out of the gate with the dumbfounding riffery of "Panic Attack." The song touches on all the now-signature elements of Priest's sound, with dizzying harmonic guitar solos, a relentlessly pushy beat, and layers of Rob Halford's vocals, part winking metal theater, part authentic menace.