Judas Priest – Epitaph – Legacy DVD
By Jeffrey Easton
If there was a face for Metal, a band that you can continue to say “That’s Metal”, it would be Judas Priest. They NEVER cease to amaze an audience with how they deliver the live show and draw the fans in to their sinister world. Their set list always involves the classics and unlike a lot of other classic bands, they dig into their vast catalog and dig out gems that rarely surface. This show was shot at London’s HMV HAMMERSMITH Apollo in May 2012 and the placed was slammed with thousands of rabid metal fans waiting to be shattered by the mighty Priest and they were not disappointed. With the lights up, the notes for Battle Hymn echoed throughout the hall and the mayhem was on! It did not take long for the massive Priest past to be mined with Rapid Fire and Metal Gods, their fitting song, to catapulted onto the crowd and they ate it up. Since this is supposed to be their last world tour, you have to find the gems in the catalog that he fans want to hear, something that they might have not heard live before and they did just that with Starbreaker and Never Satisfied. Hell, I have never heard those live so I am envious of those lucky fans. Throughout the years they have had a few different faces, dark and moody, poppy and hard as nails and throughout the set they displayed all of them but the blast of heaviness is what charged the crowd and they delivered that well with Painkiller, to me their heaviest song that showed them at their prime as well as Night Crawler and Blood Red Skies. Priest used to open their sets with The Hellion/Electric Eye but that has now been reserved for the encore and there is no better way to send the blood pressure up then the chilling sounds of this sinister duo. You thought that was all the Priest had to offer, after the classic Victim Of Changes, Breaking The Law, Turbo Lover and Heading Out to The Highway, that’s all they had? The show closed out insanely with Hell Bent For Leather, You Got Another Thing Coming and Living After Midnight. More metal than the normal mortal can take but these fans took it in and were mental for it. The content of this DVD shows why Priest have not lost their crown almost 40 years after dropping their first record and why they will not be giving it up any time soon.
BUY Epitaph!!
By Jeffrey Easton
If there was a face for Metal, a band that you can continue to say “That’s Metal”, it would be Judas Priest. They NEVER cease to amaze an audience with how they deliver the live show and draw the fans in to their sinister world. Their set list always involves the classics and unlike a lot of other classic bands, they dig into their vast catalog and dig out gems that rarely surface. This show was shot at London’s HMV HAMMERSMITH Apollo in May 2012 and the placed was slammed with thousands of rabid metal fans waiting to be shattered by the mighty Priest and they were not disappointed. With the lights up, the notes for Battle Hymn echoed throughout the hall and the mayhem was on! It did not take long for the massive Priest past to be mined with Rapid Fire and Metal Gods, their fitting song, to catapulted onto the crowd and they ate it up. Since this is supposed to be their last world tour, you have to find the gems in the catalog that he fans want to hear, something that they might have not heard live before and they did just that with Starbreaker and Never Satisfied. Hell, I have never heard those live so I am envious of those lucky fans. Throughout the years they have had a few different faces, dark and moody, poppy and hard as nails and throughout the set they displayed all of them but the blast of heaviness is what charged the crowd and they delivered that well with Painkiller, to me their heaviest song that showed them at their prime as well as Night Crawler and Blood Red Skies. Priest used to open their sets with The Hellion/Electric Eye but that has now been reserved for the encore and there is no better way to send the blood pressure up then the chilling sounds of this sinister duo. You thought that was all the Priest had to offer, after the classic Victim Of Changes, Breaking The Law, Turbo Lover and Heading Out to The Highway, that’s all they had? The show closed out insanely with Hell Bent For Leather, You Got Another Thing Coming and Living After Midnight. More metal than the normal mortal can take but these fans took it in and were mental for it. The content of this DVD shows why Priest have not lost their crown almost 40 years after dropping their first record and why they will not be giving it up any time soon.
BUY Epitaph!!