Judas Priest have extended their 2025 European tour by announcing two new UK shows – one of which being a co-headline date with Alice Cooper. Check out the details below.
News that the heavy metal veterans would be hitting the road in 2025 arrived last month, when they confirmed details of a European tour for the summer.
The tour comes in support of their latest album ‘Invincible Shield’, and was originally set to consist of 12 shows with stops in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, France and more between June and July
Now, the dates have been extended with two UK shows. The first of which will take place on July 23, and see frontman Rob Halford and co. joined by Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons as they head to the Scarborough Open Air Theatre.
The latter will be held two days later and is scheduled as a co-headlining gig with Alice Cooper at The O2 in London on July 25. This is now the final scheduled gig of the upcoming tour, and tickets are live now. Visit here to buy yours, and check out an updated list of tour dates below.
Judas Priest’s Europe 2025 tour dates are:
JUNE
14 – Tjuvholmen Arena – Hamar, Norway
17 – Schleyerhalle – Stuttgart, Germany
18 – Hessentag Festival – Frankfurt, Germany
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JULY
01 – Summer Festival – Ferrara, Italy
03 – Hallenstadion – Zurich, Switzerland
07 – Atlas Arena – Lodz, Poland
10 – Dalhalla – Rattvik, Sweden
13 – Olympiahalle – Munich, Germany
15 – Festival De Carcassone – Carcassonne, France
17 – Sion Sous Les Etoiles – Sion, Switzerland
19 – Rockhal – Luxembourg, Luxembourg
20 – Rudolf-Weber-Arena – Oberhausen, Germany
23 – Open Air Theatre – Scarborough, UK [NEW]
25 – The O2, London, UK [NEW, co-headline with Alice Cooper]
The upcoming run of shows comes shortly after the band completed their run of North American shows. This saw them break out a mix of ‘Invincible Shield’ and fan favourites across nine classic albums.
Upcoming UK and European dates also arrive as bassist Ian Hill recently revealed that Judas Priest were in the midst of re-mixing their debut album ‘Rocka Rolla’, which has just turned 50, and as the frontman confirmed that he isn’t planning on retiring anytime soon.
In other Judas Priest news, earlier this year the iconic metal singer caught up with NME as part of the In Conversation series, and opened up about what it was like to come out as gay in 1998 – something he describes as “the greatest thing I could have done for myself”.
“If I reflect on it, it happened in the right way because it wasn’t premeditated… Everybody in the band knew I was gay, everybody at the label knew I was gay and management knew I was gay. And wouldn’t you believe it? All the fans were like, ‘Well, we always thought you were gay anyway.’ And there was me thinking I’m the only gay in the village! But the goodness that came out of that can’t be overstated,” he said.
“[But] being a gay man and coming out into a metal world, at the time, that was really difficult because of the homophobia and the pushback. And I still get it now.”
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