Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
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Artist: Judas PriestEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-11-06
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Exciter
- Running Wild
- Sinner
- The Ripper
- The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
- Diamonds And Rust
- Victim Of Changes
- Genocide
- Tyrant
- Rock Forever
- Delivering The Goods
- Hell Bent For Leather
- Starbreaker
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Free Music Review: Finest Aged Cheddar...
Hit: 5 Stars
There's good cheese and bad cheese; at their best, Judas Priest was the former, and this live offering from 1978 in front of a crowd of adoring Japanese shows them at their very best. For those not familiar with the Metal Gods, Unleashed in the East is the best introduction. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath may have created the framework for Anglo Saxon Heavy Music, but the Priest, by ditching the blues changes for baroque prog structures, adding a second guitar, and playing at blinding velocity, may lay claim to being the first true Metal band, progenitor of speed, thrash, power, and sadly, hair metal, the latter being weird because the lead singer was bald and proud of it. (Halford's willingness to opt for close cropped hair in the mid-'70's when all metal folk had to be hirsuit always seemed to me more courageous than his coming out of the closet years later...)Evidence of why they are not merely kitsch: their inspired choice of covers. JP lay waste to, of all things, Joan Baez's kiss-off to Dylan, "Diamonds and Rust," and turn it into molten metal. Their version of Fleetwood Mac's "Green Manalishi" makes Peter Green's ode to a succubus into the purest Gothic horroshow imaginable, blood-curdling. This disc contains only the fastest and most relentless songs from their early albums, when they seemed to inhabit some sort of Lovecraftian dystopia and before they began writing the mindless MTV party anthems that put them in the Top 40. For pure onslaught, Motorhead was their only competition. Secret weapon: Rob Halford's banshee shriek, he gives Robert Plant a run for his money in the titanium-throated operatic male soprano department. I just found out that Judas Priest is touring with Motorhead this August and will be in my state -- this is one King Kong v. Godzilla show I am not going to pass up.
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While Judas Priest's first three Columbia albums displayed a band that seemed musically restless and a bit wary of becoming just another rock caricature, their first official live album offers up a strong distillation of the musical sense that informed those records (along with earlier material from Sad Wings of Destiny) and is a testament to their KK Dowling/Glen Tipton fueled twin-guitar fury. The fact that vocalist Rob Halford's tracks (allegedly damaged in the recording process) were later replaced in the studio has long been a bone of contention to purists (though hardly an unusual practice in the industry), but fresh ears may find the "problem" actually resulted in a better-sounding record. More gratifying, the original album's manic sensibility has been amped even further by the inclusion of four key live, previously unreleased bonus tracks--"Rock Forever," "Delivering the Goods," "Hell Bent for Leather," and "Starbreaker." This digitally remastered edition also features new notes by the band and expanded artwork. This is Judas Priest's early arena rock at its over-the-top best: big, loud, and wholly unapologetic. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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