Richie Faulkner
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How Judas Priest made a blockbuster new album in the face of adversity – and became unstoppable
By Jon Wiederhorn published
Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner, Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton open up on their guitar tag-team approach on Invincible Shield, a bold new album that lashes out at human frailty
“This disease won’t beat me”: Glenn Tipton on playing with Richie Faulkner and defying Parkinson’s
By Amit Sharma published
Metal God Glenn Tipton reveals the gear behind Judas Priest’s incendiary new album, Invincible Shield – and why he won’t be throwing in the towel any time soon
“I’m never going to out-do Yngwie”: Richie Faulkner on Priest’s new album and why he’s no shredder
By Amit Sharma published
Judas Priest's Invincible Shield finds the British metal institution surviving against the odds. Its very own bionic man Richie Faulkner gives us the guitar POV on a venerable work of British steel
“This disease won’t beat me and I will continue writing and playing for as long as I can”: Glenn Tipton explains how Richie Faulkner and a ‘no surrender’ mindset has helped him adapt his Judas Priest role
By Matt Owen published
Tipton stepped back from official touring duties in 2018, but continues to write and record alongside Faulkner as a crucial member of Judas Priest
Gibson’s Richie Faulkner Flying V Custom is finally here – and its first batch sold out in under 24 hours
By Matt Parker published
The Judas Priest guitar hero has teamed up with the Custom Shop’s finest for this extremely limited signature model
Richie Faulkner: ”Judas Priest came from a place of progressive blues. The seeds of metal were sewn through the blues – that's the true heritage of heavy metal”
By Andrew Daly published
Currently flexing his bluesier chops with metal supergroup Elegant Weapons, Faulkner reflects on how his recent heart surgery gave him a new lease on life, and why his forthcoming signature Gibson V will be ”the most metal-sounding guitar you've ever heard”
That time Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner jammed with Tool: “It was pretty daunting... let’s just say it wasn’t like jamming some AC/DC”
By Amit Sharma published
The Flying V titan locked guitars with Adam Jones on a live performance of Jambi, but “almost throw up because of how technical the song is”
Richie Faulkner says he used a Bigsby-equipped Fender Telecaster for his clean tone on Judas Priest’s Firepower
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Gibson-loving Judas Priest guitarist maintains, though, that the Flying V remains his, err, elegant weapon of choice
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