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Disc 1:
1.Electric Eye,2.Metal Gods,3.Heading Out To The Highway,4.The Ripper,5.Touch Of Evil,6.The Sentinel,7.Turbo Lover,8.Victim Of Changes,9.Intro,10.Diamonds And Rust,11.Breaking The Law,12.Beyond The Realms Of Death,13.The Green Manalshi,14.Painkiller
Disc 2:
1.Hell Bent For Leather,2.Living After Midnight,3.United,4.You Got Another Thing Coming |
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Disc 1:
1.Electric Eye,2.Metal Gods,3.Heading Out To The Highway,4.The Ripper,5.Touch Of Evil,6.The Sentinel,7.Turbo Lover,8.Victim Of Changes,9.Intro,10.Diamonds And Rust,11.Breaking The Law,12.Beyond The Realms Of Death,13.The Green Manalshi,14.Painkiller
Disc 2:
1.Hell Bent For Leather,2.Living After Midnight,3.United,4.You Got Another Thing Coming |
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Taped by:Burnboy
Transfered by:Burnboy
Mastered by:BurnBoy
Bootleg Title: "The High Priests of Metal Return"
File Size: 629 Mb FLAC
Artwork:None
Setlist:
Disc 1
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04 - The Ripper.flac
05 - Touch Of Evil.flac
06 - The Sentinel.flac
07 - Turbo Lover.flac
08 - Victom Of Changes.flac
09 - Crowd.flac
10 - Diamonds And Rust.flac
11 - Breaking The Law.flac
12 - Beyond The Realms Of Death.flac
13 - The Green Manalishi (With TheTwo Pronged Crown).flac
14 - Painkiller - Crowd.flac
Disc 2
01 - Hell Bent For Leather.flac
02 - Living After Midnight.flac
03 - United.flac
04 - You Got Another Thing Coming.flac
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Review by The Toronto Star:
Aug. 19, 2004. 12:35 AM
Priest gets worshipful reception
Heavy metal fans' nostalgia validated by skill
Return of singer's famed wail can't overshadow band
BEN RAYNER
POP MUSIC CRITIC
The city of Toronto, those well acquainted with metal lore might tell you, holds some significance in the Judas Priest story.
This is the town where, 12 years ago, iron-lunged frontman Rob Halford announced to his bandmates that he was leaving the group, thus stripping one of Britain's most successful rock exports of the 1970s and '80s of its charismatic face and dooming Priest to more than a decade of obscurity.
Still, when coming from the mouths of fractious rock musicians, the word "never" must always be taken with a grain of salt. And so we find a Halford-fronted and apparently amicable Judas Priest — which spent the past few years ignominiously fronted by one Ripper Owens, a chap recruited from a Priest cover band — back on the touring trail this summer, preparing a new album and enjoying something of an unexpected, late-career revival.
That the band chose to spend a lone day off from its summer stint on the roving Ozzfest tour in a city that must surely hold a few ugly memories for its members could be construed as a way of making peace with the past and stomping down old demons.
At the same time, of course, that the lads chose to bring hirsute speed-metal warriors Slayer along with them as opening act at the Molson Amphitheatre last night would suggest a good measure of confidence in their abilities. They obviously weren't expecting to be too rattled.
"The longer I stayed away from Priest, the more I wanted to go back," Halford — who re-established contact with his former bandmates several years ago, but officially returned as lead singer during preparations for their Metalogy box set last year — shrugged during an interview earlier in the day.
It's safe to surmise the band's fans felt much the same way. There was an undeniably celebratory atmosphere at the Amphitheatre last night, with excitable stories of Priest shows past and many a faded Screaming For Vengeance tour T-shirt making the rounds in the stands.
When the shaven-headed Halford finally appeared, spotlit on a ramp above his bandmates, the response was rabid. And, thanks to the textbook-Priest display of metal prowess that ensued, it only got more rabid as the evening wore on.
Material from the new Judas Priest album (due in late December) has been set aside for this tour. This is mainly, Halford says, to avoid piracy on the "evil Internet," but it's just as likely because the band would prefer to cement its comeback bid with a run of hit-heavy shows that remind lapsed fans and latecomers of its greatness.
The unashamedly flashy, slightly camp Priest — a band, after all, fronted by a gay man who emerged last night in a fringed and studded leather trench coat and matching chaps — was frequently harangued during the 1970s for pandering to the masses with its burnished, high-register metal anthems.
The masses, however, are exactly what roaring shout-alongs like "Breaking The Law," "Hell Bent For Leather" and "You've Got Another Thing" demand.
The hooks hold up, too: Even late-period entries such as "Turbo Lover" and the grinding "Painkiller" put present-day metal ironists like the Darkness to shame.
Despite the unnerving presence of a teleprompter onstage and the odd just-missed vocal cue, Halford's famous wail did the old material justice, flitting from guttural low register to operatic heights with no apparent strain.
The guitar tandem of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton has never split, a fact made clear by not just their precisely entwined licks but their perfectly synchronized guitar-god posing. An enthusiastic, elongated jam on the molten "Victim Of Changes" also suggested the musical chemistry is back online after all those years apart.
Definitely the most fondly received metal reunion in recent memory, in any case...
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Thu, August 19, 2004
"The high Priests of metal return"
By JASON MACNEIL, SPECIAL TO THE TORONTO SUN
JUDAS PRIEST might be 30 years into their metal careers, but they seem to have found a second or third wind. The British group, who are currently touring with Ozzy Osbourne's OZZfest stateside, headlined their own show last night at the Molson Amphitheatre. And for their roughly 95-minute set, the band's classic heavy metal sounded like it has aged rather well.
Led by the leather-and studs-clad Rob Halford, the quintet opened the show with Electric Eye. Oddly enough, Halford stepped out from the pupil of an eye displayed on a large curtain.
The band, who recently reunited with Halford after nearly 15 years apart, were all smiles for most of the evening. Guitarists Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing traded licks during Heading Out To The Highway and Metal Gods, the latter title summing the up the band's status quite nicely.
"Hello Toronto! The Priest is back!", the bald Halford said with a grin. Halford's constant pacing of the stage, steps and risers was only surpassed by consistent nailing of some banshee-like wails on A Touch Of Evil, and especially the foot-stomping The Sentinel.
The crowd, which covered all classes and ages, was on its feet for most of the show and responded to each tune with pumped fists. At times Halford was drowned out by the cheering, especially during Turbo Lover and Victim Of Changes.
Victim Of Changes was also the highlight of the evening as all five members seemed lost in the song. At times Halford acted like a maestro, conducting Tipton and Downing through their guitar solos. The crowd responded to the song with raised fists and beer glasses, prompting a bow from Halford.
The only breather of the evening came shortly afterwards during the almost folksy Diamonds And Rust. The softer acoustic opening seemed to take things down somewhat. Yet it was only a fleeting moment of no electric guitars or high-pitched screams.
The evening wasn't without the band showing signs of aging -- all three guitarists were quite stationary throughout the night. Only when they decided to choreograph their guitar movements did bassist Ian Hill come to life.
Judas Priest didn't concentrate on any one album but took nuggets from British Steel and Hell Bent For Leather to make it an almost satisfying setlist, perhaps needing another song or two. But few left during the set-closing Painkiller from the album of the same name.
Soaking up the adulation, the band returned for an encore that featured Halford riding a motorcycle onstage for Hell Bent For Leather. Living After Midnight and their signature You've Got Another Thing Coming were also crowd favourites.
Opening for Judas Priest was Slayer. The band's aggressive and intense metal sound make Judas Priest sound like The Beatles by comparison. The band's hour-long set included War Ensemble and Mandatory Suicide.
JUDAS PRIEST
MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE
'Rocka rolla'
-- JASON MACNEIL, SUN
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