Redeemer of Souls | ||||
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![]() Cover art by Mark Wilkinson | ||||
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Released | 8 July 2014 11 July 2014 (EU) 14 July 2014 (UK) | (US)|||
Recorded | 2013–2014 | |||
Genre | Heavy metal | |||
Length | 61:58 | |||
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Producer | Mike Exeter and Glenn Tipton | |||
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Redeemer of Souls is the seventeenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, which was released in the US on 8 July 2014, in Europe on 11 July, and in the UK on 14 July. It is their first album without founding guitarist K. K. Downing, who quit the band in 2011 and was replaced by new guitarist Richie Faulkner.[1] It also marks the band's last album to be produced by Glenn Tipton. The album sold around 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to peak at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking the band's first top 10 album debut in the US.[2] It has sold 110,000 copies in the US as of February 2016.[3]