The follow-up to Judas Priest’s 2018 album Firepower is close to being finished.

That’s the word from guitarist Richie Faulkner, who says he and his bandmates are currently figuring out the album’s track listing.

“We were talking about the running order for the track listing of the album,” Faulkner says. “So that’s where the album’s at. So it’s been recorded. It’s pretty much mixed now. We’re just trying to decide what order the tracks should go. It’s a really important thing. If you put the tracks in the wrong order — it’s like a movie; if you edit the movie in the wrong order, it loses its potency. So it’s gotta be right. So it’s pretty close.”

That’s not to say the as-yet-untitled project will be available anytime soon. “I don’t think we have a specific [date],” Faulkner says. “If we handed it in to the record label today, I think vinyl takes six months at least to actually make; there’s a backlog of vinyl. So I think it’ll probably be early ’24, I would say. I won’t get fired for that. But I think that’s a safe estimation to say.”