Coming off an era which saw several JUDAS PRIEST albums that have gone down as some of the greatest in the entire history of heavy metal (namely, 1980’s British Steel and 1982’s Screaming For Vengeance), the band from Birmingham knew that their next release had to ‘deliver the goods’, to cement their standing as the leaders of metal. And deliver they did, with their platinum-certified 1984 release, Defenders Of The Faith. And on March 10th, a newly expanded three-CD version of the album will be unleashed via Columbia/Legacy, which includes the original ten-track album remastered by producer Tom Allom, and a complete live recording from the Defenders tour, recorded at the Long Beach Arena in California, on May 5th, 1984.
The 21-track concert (split up over two discs) perfectly balances the then-new material from the group’s ninth studio offering overall, including such classics as “Metal Gods”, “Breaking The Law”, “Sinner”, “Electric Eye”, “The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)”, “Victim Of Changes”, and “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”, among many others.
The remastered version of “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll” can be heard streaming HERE (restricted to some territories).
Source: BW&BK
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