The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight [CD]

This is a great compilation of Judas Priest's best songs. Most of the classics are here. I wish the songs Screaming for Vengeance and the Ripper were included but Priest has more great songs than can fit on one disk.

Judas Priest has proven over the decades, they are the leaders of the new wave of British Heavy Metal. With "The Best Of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight", you will hear rip and tear riffs galore from the legendary Metal guitar tandem of K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton. Rob Halford is the quintessential Metal vocalist whose operatic vocal highs not only thrill, they are down right jaw dropping. Ian Hill has always played a booming bass that never goes unnoticed. Judas Priest has been lucky to have two incredibly gifted drummers over the years with Dave Holland and current skins man Scott Travis. You will hear the loyalty and allegiance that Judas Priest has for Heavy Metal in their music, both lyrically and musically. Judas Priest is Heavy Metal, they have defined and refined the genre with blistering cuts such as "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll", "Ram It Down", and "Heading Out To The Highway". "The Hellion" is in my opinion, the greatest Heavy Metal introduction there ever was or will be. This inspiring guitar laden instrumental will leave you in awe, it leaves me in Metal bewilderment despite hearing it so often over the years! "Electric Eye" could never be as powerful of a Metal song without "The Hellion" introducing it. Yes, the instant hits are here as well, with "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" and "Living After Midnight", yet it is the deeper album tracks that are so vicious and straight ahead Metal. "Freewheel Burning", "The Green Manalishi" and "Hot Rockin'" are songs that will surprise new fans and have them searching the Judas Priest catalog. The five songs that are live here are just as great, if not better than the studio recordings. The liner notes are ultra incredible, with a 12 page fold out with lots of concert photos of the band. An abbreviated, yet decent written history about the band is also in the liner notes too. I endorse all fans of Rock and Metal to buy this CD and listen to Heavy Metal history as it was shaped by Judas Priest!!