British heavy metal rockers Judas Priest are bringing their studded leather to Winnipeg.

Fronted by longtime lead singer Rob Halford, the band is touring to promote Redeemer of Souls, the 17th studio album in their nearly 40-year career.

The tour stops in Winnipeg at the MTS Centre on Nov. 1. Tickets (incl. GST) are $29.50, $49.50, $69.50.

Along with Halford, the band's lineup includes other deep-rooted members Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing and Ian Hill.

After a few less successful albums, Judas Priest hit their stride with 1978's Stained Class and Hell Bent for Leather, and 1979's Unleashed In The East.

Those albums spawned many rock anthems — Breaking the Law, Living After Midnight, Heading Out to the Highway, You've Got Another Thing Coming — as well as a look that became part of the core rock n' roll fashion.

They were one of the first metal bands to exclusively wear leather and studs – a look that would eventually be embraced by metal heads throughout the world.

In 2006, MTV ranked them as the second greatest metal band of all time, just behind Black Sabbath.

Despite a long string of hits and four decades in the business that produced now-classic albums British Steel (1980), Point of Entry (1981), Screaming for Vengeance (1982), and Defenders of the Faith (1984), the band's 2008 release, Nostradamus, is their highest-­charting album of their career.

Redeemer of Souls was released in July 2014.