Scott Travis of Judas Priest reveals some more insight about their album “Nostradamus”

The response to Judas Priest‘s 2008 release of Nostradamus was anything but consistent. Some saw the band’s ambitious double concept album as an example of their willingness to push the envelope. Others saw it as one of the more contentious additions to their illustrious repertoire. The musicians themselves continue to reflect on the record over twenty years later. Drummer Scott Travis was asked if the band has positive memories of the project in a recent interview with Chris Akin of The Classic Metal Show, as reported from MetalInjection.

I think it would depend on who you talk to in the band. [Laughs] For me personally, yeah, I don’t think it was our strongest release, and it was meant to mimic — not mimic, but it was meant to go after the sort of, not the crowd, ’cause it was definitely for the Priest fans, but the… What am I trying to say? It was trying to go after something that could be made more than just a rock band doing a rock album and releasing it and doing a tour. In other words, it was meant to be something that maybe could have been turned into some kind of theater show or could have gone on to be a bigger production. I’m not really sure. I just remember hearing the talk about the idea initially to do an album based around Nostradamus’s life and things like that. Thinking back on it, it was also near the end of the K.K.–Glenn relationship. Do you know what I mean? ‘Cause they were still in the band, but there was a lot of friction there. And again, I was witness to it. And I could tell things probably weren’t gonna last. I didn’t know what would happen or that K.K. would actually leave the band — I certainly didn’t predict that — but I could just tell that they weren’t getting along and everybody as a group was kind of just spreading out and living in different parts of the world.