Fan-filmed video footage of
JUDAS PRIEST's July 2, 2009 performance at the
Milwaukee Summerfest can be viewed below.
JUDAS PRIEST kicked off its
"British Steel" 30th-anniversary tour Monday night (June 29) at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana.
JUDAS PRIEST has chosen 10 songs not previously released in live album form for
"A Touch of Evil: Live", which is due out July 14, in the midst of the band's U.S. summer tour.
"A Touch of Evil" includes live renderings of longtime fan favorites such as
"Painkiller",
"Dissident Aggressor",
"Riding on the Wind",
"Between the Hammer & the Anvil" and
"Eat Me Alive", as well as
"Hellrider" from
"Angel of Retribution", the group's 2004 reunion album with frontman
Rob Halford, and two tracks —
"Death" and
"Prophecy" — from last year's rock opera
"Nostradamus".
"I love those songs,"
Halford told
Billboard.com. "All of those songs just crush. Because they've never been recorded live in this way, it's just something fresh to put out. And when you listen to it and think this band has been around for three decades, with a combined age of 250-something years...I mean, how cool is that? It's a very fierce record and just captures the band's attitude and feeling in a very strong, determined way."
Recorded by
Martin Walker and
Brian Thorene during
JUDAS PRIEST's mammoth 2005 and 2008 world tours,
"A Touch Of Evil: Live" marks the first
PRIEST album that producer
Tom Allom has worked on since 1988 (co-producing along with the band). It was such
Allom-produced albums as the aforementioned
"Unleashed In The East", as well as
"British Steel" and
"Screaming For Vengeance" (among others) that made
PRIEST not only one of the premier metal acts, but one of the leading global rock acts.
"A Touch Of Evil: Live" track listing:
01.
Judas Rising02.
Hellrider03.
Between The Hammer & The Anvil 04.
Riding On The Wind05.
Death06.
Beyond The Realms Of Death07.
Dissident Aggressor08.
A Touch Of Evil09.
Eat Me Alive10.
Prophecy11.
Painkiller
