Judas Priest

[Yax]

The cape during the intro before the opening song features 17 out of the 19 albums (cool idea) - the missing ones are the 2 Ripper albums, they really don't like that era. It's not like there's no room.

It's mostly Rob, I think, who has an unhealthy relationship with those records. He has refused to listen to them at all because "it is too painful".

 

[dickinson1978]

Not really. The only songs they play no matter what are:
1. Breaking the Law
2. Living After Midnight
3. You've Got Another Thing Comin' (not played on the final leg of the Firepower tour)
4. Hell Bent for Leather
5. Electric Eye (not played in 2018)

There are more songs that are very likely to be played, but they're not guaranteed at this point of their career:
1. Painkiller (not performed on the 2nd Firepower leg in the US and during the final 50HMY leg)
2. Victim of Changes (used to be a live staple until 2018, since the Firepower tour they've been rotating it with Sinner or they don't play any of them)
3. Metal Gods (again: not a live staple anymore, played only few times post-Firepower)
4. Turbo Lover (same case as Painkiller)

There are songs that used to be played very, very often, but not anymore:
1. The Green Manalishi (pretty much every tour since Killing Machine)
2. Heading Out to the Highway (after the Epitaph tour, Desert Plains is the more popular choice from Point of Entry)
3. Beyond the Realms of Death (post-RoS it was only played in the USA in 2022; I assume they don't like performing this one without Glenn)
4. Diamonds and Rust (similar to The Green Manalishi, played at most of their tours, but it doesn't appear on the setlist as often as it used to - after Epitaph the only tour that featured Diamonds and Rust was the anniversary one)

Ever since 2018 they tend to drop some of the evergreens in favor of new stuff and rarities. This is actually pretty interesting because you'd expect the opposite.

Yes,so 5 to 9. The second list of the songs are played almost all tours. So maybe 5 to 9 songs left 5 songs to play and could be the expected.

 

[Azas]

The cape during the intro before the opening song features 17 out of the 19 albums (cool idea) - the missing ones are the 2 Ripper albums, they really don't like that era. It's not like there's no room.

They're afraid of the Ripper era because it was a truly bloody affair. Whitechapel levels of bloody.

 

[srfc]

Yeah, remixed by Allom, right?

Edit: Nope, just rematered according to this source.

JUDAS PRIEST: 'Sad Wings Of Destiny' 50th-Anniversary Archival Edition To Be Made Available During 'Faithkeepers' Summer 2026 Tour

Exciter Records has announced the release of JUDAS PRIEST's "Sad Wings Of Destiny (Original 1976 Masters)", a newly restored 50th-anniversary archival edition that will make its debut in CD format exclusively at merchandise stands during JUDAS PRIEST's "Faithkeepers" summer 2026 European tour...

blabbermouth.net

Hopefully you'll be able to pick it up in the real world at some stage for those of us not seeing the tour.

 

[Jer]

It's mostly Rob, I think, who has an unhealthy relationship with those records. He has refused to listen to them at all because "it is too painful".

That’s pathetic, especially considering that he isn’t even a founding member of the band. He needs to get over himself and accept this other era of the band.

 

[Yax]

That’s pathetic, especially considering that he isn’t even a founding member of the band. He needs to get over himself and accept this other era of the band.

Ah well, to be fair, Halford, Ian and Ken jointly decied to go with the name Judas Priest, of the former pub band Ken and Ian briefly played with for a couple of years. While bits of that music made its way onto Rocka Rolla and SWoD, one certainly can make the case that Halford, Ian, Ken and John Hinch is the original lineup, a separate entity from the Al Atkins thing - that's how I view it anyway.

 

[GhostofCain]

The cape during the intro before the opening song features 17 out of the 19 albums (cool idea) - the missing ones are the 2 Ripper albums, they really don't like that era. It's not like there's no room.

That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. It is also pretty pathetic if you don't ask me.

 

[Yax]

That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. It is also pretty pathetic if you don't ask me.

And it's also pathetic not to ask you.

 

[Diesel 11]

It's mostly Rob, I think, who has an unhealthy relationship with those records. He has refused to listen to them at all because "it is too painful".

Ah so he has heard Jugulator. Talk about the opposite of a painkiller, that one’s a painbringer.