In a recent interview with Clint Switzer of On The Road To Rock, JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner spoke about the status of his ELEGANT WEAPONS project, also featuring singer Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW, MSG), including a possible second album. He said:  ”Ronnie‘s fantastic. Again, he’s one of those guys, he’s not only a singer, he’s a frontman. He fronts the band. There’s a lot of people I know, they’ve got great voices, but it takes a frontman or frontwoman, front person to do that job. So Ronnie‘s definitely got that.

“We did some dates last year in Europe, which was fantastic,” he continued. “We did some dates with PANTERA, which was nuts. You can imagine opening up for them. We’ve got a second record which is halfway done — bass, guitars and drums are done. When we get some downtime from the PRIEST tour, we’re gonna get Ronnie in and see if we can put him down on the songs. And then, really, it’s waiting for the PRIEST cycle to finish up, really, wherever this tour takes us. When that winds down and we find a window of opportunity to release the second record, we will.

“That’s what it was about, really,” Faulkner added. “It wasn’t about the one record recorded during COVID; it was about a band that goes on. We’ve all got our different things, obviously — PRIEST, ACCEPT, Ronnie‘s got his stuff — but we wanted it to be a proper band with multiple records doing live dates, which we’ve done. But it’s just, obviously, when PRIEST are out, ACCEPT are out, URIAH HEEP are out at the moment as well, when we find a window in between for that, then we’ll look at releasing the second record. So, that’s an exciting thing to think about, too.”