"We're very proud of the records and the songs that we've made and we really treasure everything that we've put together," Halford explians, "so it's very important for us when we make a record like Redeemer Of Souls that it has the same caliber because this has to be a good record for us because there's a lot of self-conviction.

"When we hear it back before it's gone out to the public, we ourselves have to be convinced that we've given as much as we can at this moment and that it's as good as it can get�and then we let it out to the world."

"Redeemer Of Souls" delivered the UK metal legends the first US Top 10 of their career. The project debuted in July at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200 with 33,000 copies sold, surpassing the group's previous chart peak of No 11 with 2008's "Nostradamus."