Judas Priest announce farewell EPITAPH World Tour

[Kingface]

Sorry for the double-post but thought this might be of interest to people:

http://truecultheavymetal.com/blog1.php/2011/05/26/judas-priest-perform-on-american-idol

Judas Priest performing on American Idol! Quite enjoyable I must say!

 

[Power_Metal_Dom]

^ Crikey that was unexpected! Good duet mind. Got to see Richie show off his chops too.

 

[1928]

A fun surprise that was! And a great performance by James Durbin and the band. Good night of music!

 

[Kingface]

Hmm...at the risk of derailing the thread a bit, it sounds like on American Idol maybe sometimes you actually get some talent shown! Out of the many years of The X Factor, there's probably one or two singers who have any shred of credibility in my book.

 

[1928]

The contestants definitely have talent singing, the problem is whether or not they can write music

 

[giodude]

Yeah the duet on American idol was great! Judas Priest are awesome.

 

[Andiferum]

Durbin's ace. Great voice!

 

[Shredlamode]

Haha that is classic!

 

[Kingface]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159258

Main thing I find interesting about the above article is the setlist. Really good and varied setlist, my one criticism being there's no 'Living After Midnight'. I just really wanna witness them performing it live one day!

 

[Dan W]

Nothing from the 2 Ripper albums though. Especially considering they've pointed out at least 1 song from each album, and they've ignored a period which a majority of the current line-up appeared on

Also hope Painkiller is better than the version on Rising In The East, Rob's vocals are shockingly bad on that performance

 

[Kingface]

Yeah it doesn't really surprise me that that material from 'Jugulator' and 'Demolition' has been ignored and on a personal level I prefer it this way. I think Tim 'Ripper' Owens is a great vocalist, I just don't enjoy most of the material on those two albums he happened to be on.

As for that Painkiller performance, again it doesn't surprise me as it must be insanely hard to perform and Halford isn't getting any younger, at the risk of sounding harsh! Wonder if he will continue to resort to Death Metal style grunts!

 

[Kingface]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=159320

They played Living After Midnight!

Guess they are mixing it up at least a tad with the Setlists.

 

[Power_Metal_Dom]

If there were to be Ripper tracks I'd vote for Jugulator or Abductors then Mental Messiah or Cyberface.