Downing, the longtime Judas Priest guitarist and K.K.s’ Priest leader who grew up near Black Sabbath’s home base of Birmingham, offered a comment to Blabbermouth on the upcoming show.

Downing is very mad at Judas Priest ... All of these things that I was saying — ‘I need to have a voice’ and ‘Everybody needs to listen to K.K. If we’re gonna end this, it needs to be done in the way ...

Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing has weighed in on the band’s recent, since-rescinded decision to tour as a quartet without a second guitar player. Speaking about the initial announcement ...