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JUDAS PRIEST: METAL GODS

I quickly ran like hell to find a bathroom, as I didn’t want my bladder to attack me in the middle of Rob Halford kicking my ass. Afterwards, I went back to the front of the field, where I had a good side view of the entire stage.

The lights dimmed in the middle of AC/DC’s Back in Black. This was it. I was about to see one of the greatest front men ever.

SETLIST: (No Particular Order)

The Hellion/ Electric Eye
Metal Gods
A Touch of Evil
The Sentinel
Painkiller
Living After Midnight
Breaking the Law
Victim of Changes
Hell Bent for Leather
The Green Manalishi
Beyond the Realms of Death
You Got Another Thing Coming

The first song played was The Hellion/Electric Eye, and that is EXACTLY how I envisioned Judas Priest starting out. It was also the first song that pulled me into Judas Priest in the first place.

Rob Halford was really amazing. Halford reminded me a lot like Dio and Bruce Dickinson; their voices rarely ever changed and sounded worse as they got older. The only song Halford didn’t sound so great on was (surprise) Painkiller. Then again, I heard that he doesn’t do well with that song period. Methinks that song had touched up vocals on the album.

The set list, however, does have some flaws. Most of the songs on here were to be expected (IE: Hell Bent for Leather). Now, Judas Priest came on after Slayer, so you would think that they would play some of their faster songs. Not really. Victim of Changes, Metal Gods, and especially a Touch of Evil should have not been played. Even though they are good songs, faster songs would have made the crowd even more excited, especially when a lightning fast metal band came on before it. Songs like Metal Meltdown, Screaming for Vengeance, Eat Me Alive, Freewheel Burning, Rapid Fire, Exciter, Turbo Lover, Nightcrawler, Diamonds and Rust, and Devil’s Child would have been much better replacements. On Painkiller, the only songs played were A touch of Evil and Painkiller. That album is really fast and heavy, so why did they choose the slowest song on Painkiller? A touch of evil is the reason why I didn’t give Painkiller a 10; because it brought the overall speed down a notch or two.

Of course, the Harley was there. I couldn’t really tell if that was the Harley I saw before. It probably was. Either way, it was amazing to see him riding the motorcycle onstage, mostly because it occurred as an encore. Long Live the metal god!

Halford promised there would be another studio album, and I was ultimately pleased. The original Priest doing another album. Life couldn’t get better.

Oh wait. I forgot. There was a band getting ready to play that was bigger than Judas Priest (if that's possible): Black Sabbath.

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