JUDAS PRIEST - Essential (2-Audio CD - April 27, 2015)

Sony's The Essential Judas Priest collection is the perfect middle ground for those who found 2004's four-disc Metalogy box a bit too daunting. Each and every one of the 34 tracks is indispensable, chronicling the group's rise from Queen-worshipping debutantes to revolutionary metal gods. It's often the case that when career retrospectives take a non-linear approach to their sequencing, the resulting play list becomes a mess of clashing recording techniques and jarring style changes, but Priest has always held true to its vision, experimenting early on with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in ways that seamlessly bridged the gap between their Gull and Columbia years. From the opening avatar scream of 2005's comeback single "Judas Rising" to the introductory guitar swells of Screaming for Vengeance's "The Hellion/Electric Eye" -- no live cuts or Tim "Ripper" Owens-era tracks were included -- this is one compilation that's worthy of its moniker

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TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1

Victim of Changes (7:45)
Ripper (2:50)
Sinner (6:41)
Diamonds and Rust (3:23)
Exciter (5:32)
Beyond the Realms of Death (6:49)
Hell Bent for Leather (2:40)
Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown) (3:22)
Delivering the Goods (4:15)
Before the Dawn (3:23)
Breaking the Law (2:33)
Metal Gods (3:59)
Living After Midnight (3:30)
Heading out to the Highway (3:44)
Hellion (0:37)
Electric Eye (3:43)
You've Got Another Thing Comin' (5:10)
Screaming for Vengeance (4:43)
Love Bites (4:47)

Disc 2

Freewheel Burning (4:23)
Jawbreaker (3:26)
Sentinel (5:04)
Turbo Lover (5:32)
Blood Red Skies (7:51)
Ram It Down (4:48)
Painkiller (6:05)
Touch of Evil (5:43)
Night Crawler (5:44)
Hell Patrol (3:36)
Judas Rising (4:13)
Revolution (4:42)
Nostradamus (6:43)
Dragonaut (N/A)
Redeemer of Soul (N/A)