Judas Priest have extended their 2025 European tour by announcing two new UK shows, one of which will be headlining with Alice Cooper. See details below.

News that the heavy metal veterans would be hitting the road in 2025 came last month, when they European tour details confirmed for the summer.

The tour is in support of their latest album “Invincible Shield”, and was initially scheduled to include 12 concerts with stops in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, France and more between June and July.

Now the dates have been extended with two concerts in the United Kingdom. The premiere will take place on July 23 and will see the leader Rob Halford and co. joined by Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons as they head to the Scarborough Open Air Theatre.

The latter will take place two days later and is scheduled to co-headline with Alice Cooper at the O2 in London on July 25. This is now the last scheduled concert of the upcoming tour, and tickets are now online. Visit here to purchase yoursand see an updated list of tour dates below.

The Judas Priest Europe 2025 tour dates are:

JUNE
14 – Tjuvholmen Arena – Hamar, Norway
17 – Schleyerhalle – Stuttgart, Germany
18 – Hessentag Festival – Frankfurt, Germany

JULY
01 – Summer Festival – Ferrara, Italy
03 – Hallenstadion – Zurich, Switzerland
07 – Atlas Arena – Lodz, Poland
10 – Dalhalla – Rattvik, Sweden
13 – Olympiahalle – Munich, Germany
15 – Carcassonne Festival – Carcassonne, France
17 – Sion Sous Les Etoiles – Sion, Switzerland
19 – Rockhal – Luxembourg, Luxembourg
20 – Rudolf-Weber-Arena – Oberhausen, Germany
23 – Open Air Theater – Scarborough, United Kingdom (NEW)
25 – The O2, London, UK (NEW, co-title with Alice Cooper)

The next set of concerts comes shortly after the band finished their North American concert series. This saw them burst a mix of “Invincible Shield” and fan favorites from nine classic albums.

Upcoming UK and European dates are also coming as bassist Ian Hill recently revealed that Judas Priest is remixing their debut album ‘Rocka Rolla’, which just turned 50and like the frontman confirmed he has no plans to retire anytime soon.

In other Judas Priest news, earlier this year the iconic metal singer caught up with NME within the framework of the In conversation seriesand 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 think about it, it happened the right way because it wasn’t premeditated…Everyone in the band knew I was gay, everyone at the label knew I was gay and management knew I was gay. And you wouldn’t believe it? All the fans were like, “Well, we always thought you were gay anyway.” » And I thought I was the only gay in the village! But the good that came from it cannot be overstated,” he said.

“(But) being a gay man and coming out in the metal world, at the time, it was really difficult because of the homophobia and the rejection. And I still understand now.