Richie Faulkner says that fans can expect to hear "a few surprises" in JUDAS PRIEST's setlist when he and his bandmates return to the United States this spring for a run with fellow classic heavy rockers URIAH HEEP. The 32-date trek will kick off on May 3 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and wrap on June 29 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"We were there with [DEEP] PURPLE in the fall of last year, at the end of summer last year, so it will be great to come back and do our headline shows," Faulkner told Atlanta's rock station Rock 100.5 in a brand new interview (hear audio below). "And we're bringing URIAH HEEP with us. And we're looking forward to it. We're working up new songs for the setlist for this go-around. There'll be a few surprises in there — some songs that maybe people haven't heard for a long time, or ever from the band. So it's exciting just to see people's faces when you throw a new song in there or a blast from the past. So we're looking forward to coming back through. It's a slightly different stage production. We've got some new ideas for that as well. So it's gonna be an exciting tour. We can't wait to get back out there."