Judas Priest began their Redeemer of Souls tour in Rochester, N.Y. on October 1st.
The band’s reported set list was as follows:
1. Dragonaut
2. Metal Gods
3. Devil’s Child
4. Victim Of Changes
5. Halls Of Valhalla
6. Love Bites
7. March Of The Damned
8. Turbo Lover
9. Redeemer Of Souls
10. Beyond The Realms Of Death
11. Jawbreaker
12. Breaking The Law
Encore:
13. Hell Bent For Leather
Encore 2:
14. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
15. Living After Midnight
16. Defenders Of The Faith
View some fan filmed footage below.
Redeemer Of Souls, was released on July 8th and landed at the number six position on The Billboard 200 chart.
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Eddie,
I caught Judas Priest on Friday night the Horseshoe Casino in Indiana. We had general admission tickets, and got their early to score a good spot on the floor, and the line to get into the venue was already packed. It wrapped around the second floor of the casino and snaked back around again towards the top of the escalators. Tons of hard core Priest fans everywhere, it was awesome just getting in.
The line to get concert shirts was huge and unmoving as usual, so we went up front and got about 5 feet away from the front of the stage before Steel Panther got on. I had no expectations of the band, having never listened to their music, but after the third song I became a life long fan. They are awesome musically, hilarious, have absolutely filthy lyrics, and are a ton of fun. BTW their guitar player Russ Parrish played with Rob Halford in his band Fight on their album War of Words.
After Steel Panther finished their set, Priest opened up with Dragonaut. We were on Richie Faukner’s side for the entire show. No one, and I mean NO ONE can replace K.K. Downing, and it was clear that Richie was not trying to replace him. He was a primal force all on his own, separate and different from K.K., but absolutely talented, gifted, and clearly fits in with the rest of Judas Priest flawlessly.
Those who are concerned with the set list, how long the show was and all that jazz, let me just say…show up to the show and you will not be disappointed. Period. It is pure metal to the bone from note one to the final cymbal crash. Rob Halford in my opinion, is not human. He has not aged physically, his voice is powerful, and his performance rivals anyone’s of any age. I have been of the opinion and always will be that Ronnie James Dio is the greatest heavy metal voice of all time. Rob Halford, however, is a the greatest contender for that title if there ever was one.
Long live Judas Priest, the true Defenders of the Faith.
Thanks Spinesaur for the feedback! I will be seeing them in Atlanta in 3 weeks. This was a great review. I know nothing about Steel Panther but I will be there in time to see them. I love the new Priest CD and Richie has been a shot in the arm. He seems to be a fine addition to the greatest metal band of all time.
Long live the Metal God(s)!!
I saw them at Casino Rama lastnight north of Toronto. They rocked, Richie is awesome, Rob Halford had the metal screams going, it was a great show! 10 rows back wow!!! Set list was good, nice and loud!!!! WOOOOO!!!!!! Still plenty of fuel left in JP’s tanks!!! Agreed Spinesaur, Rob Halford is not human, he is the Metal God!!!
I have an extra ticket for sale for a floor seat at the Izod Center next Friday! Let me know if anyone interested! I bought 3 by mistake. Only need 2.
The last time I saw Priest, I was 13 years old, in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1982; Screaming For Vengeance.
I guess I would have been smarter to stay off the internet and ignore what has been said about the tour and just GO, with no expectations. I am a little disappointed that arguably the five songs I wanted to hear are not on their setlist – The Sentinel being the one I will miss the most.
But the weird part is that there are two songs on the Redeemer of Souls album I’m amazed they aren’t playing.
Has anyone listened to the “bonus track” – NEVER FORGET??
Would that not be the greatest final encore for every concert? ? ?
I don’t get that. Seems like a truly missed diamond in all the rust.
I’m going, I’ve got a 10th row ticket in Allentown OCT 15th, I have an extra ticket, and I’m going to bring home an experience like none other on Earth.
I know this is an old post now, and maybe nobody will see this comment, but I just did a little research that the folks complaining about the “short” set list might find interesting. I’ve been on quite a Priest kick lately, and have been enjoying listening to various albums I haven’t listened to in several years. In my teens I saw them on the Ram it Down (“Mercenaries of Metal”) and Painkiller tours, so I went searching on setlist.fm to see if I might find what they played those nights (sorry – too long ago to remember all the details!). Although the Ram it Down show for my city had no data, I checked several dates before and after. If the info is accurate, a typical set on this tour was 16-18 songs (I count “The Hellion” and “Electric Eye” as one song). On the Painkiller tour, the shows I went to (Providence and Worcester) were each 17 songs (excluding drum solo). These were shows in ’88, ’90 and ’91. So far on the current tour it looks like the set list is 16 songs, I’ll give you 15.5 if you want to argue that “Defenders of the Faith” is really only half a song. So that’s still close to the same as what they were doing 20+ years ago. Even if you wanted to add another two songs, that’s what – another 10 minutes? The biggest difference besides age are the ticket prices. We would all love to get more for paying more, but the realities of the modern economy are beyond the band’s control. It seems like the truth is the band is still delivering close to the same amount of content per show that they always have. Sure it’s a little bit less, but it’s not as much as I think some are making it out to be.