REMASTERED/EXPANDED VERSION OF JUDAS PRIEST’S CLASSIC ‘DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH’ ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE ON FRIDAY MARCH 13TH 2015
Sony Music Entertainment Australia are proud to announce the newly expanded 3CD version of the classic Judas Priest album, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH, will be released on Friday March 13th, 2015. The new package 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’.
Coming off an era which saw several Judas Priest albums go 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 US Platinum certified 1984 release, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH, which spawned such head-banging classics as ‘Freewheel Burning’, ‘Jawbreaker’, ‘The Sentinel’, ‘Some Heads Are Gonna Roll’ and ‘Love Bites’.
As the band states in the liner notes to the reissue: “It’s 30 years since we released DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH – we’re very proud to say it has become a classic that’s beloved by Priest fans throughout the world.”
Judas Priest continues to defend the faith to this day. The group recently issued their seventeenth studio album REDEEMER OF SOULS, which saw the band’s popularity amongst metal-heads remain as strong as ever with the album debuting higher than any other previous Priest release (at #6 on the US Billboard 200). On the group’s current tour, quite a few classics from DEFENDERS are being performed for the first time in years.
Now fans will get a chance to re-experience vintage Judas Priest, with the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH reissue.
CD1 – DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH Re-Mastered
Freewheel Burning
Jawbreaker
Rock Hard Ride Free
The Sentinel
Love Bites
Eat Me Alive
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
Night Comes Down
Heavy Duty
Defenders of the Faith
CD2 – Live at Long Beach Arena, California 5th May 1984
Love Bites
Jawbreaker
Grinder
Metal Gods
Breaking the Law
Sinner
Desert Plains
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
The Sentinel
Rock Hard Ride Free
CD3 – Live at Long Beach Arena, California 5th May 1984
Night Comes Down
The Hellion
Electric Eye
Heavy Duty
Defenders of the Faith
Freewheel Burning
Victim of Changes
The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)
Living After Midnight
Hell Bent For Leather
You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
