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Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East [Live]
1979
01. Exciter
02. Running Wild
03. Sinner
04. The Ripper
05. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
06. Diamonds And Rust
07. Victim Of Changes
08. Genocide
09. Tyrant
10. Rock Forever [bonus]
11. Delivering The Goods [bonus]
12. Hell Bent For Leather [bonus]
13. Starbreaker [bonus]
To summarize, this is a kick-ass live album. It is a landmark release in metal history, particularly important to the development of early Power, Speed and of course Thrash metal. The performance is note for note, Les Binks plays the groovy rhythms behind the drumkit, Ian Hill is steady like a metronome (and he's at his most audible moment here) and of course who can forget the double guitar attack of Glenn/K.K. but surely the best performance belongs to Rob Halford who now enters his golden age as a vocalist (which in my opinion would end when he left Priest, but that's another story).
All the songs are played a little faster than on the records, with extra bits added here and there, like in "Genocide" which has a kick ass heavy intro or "Starbreaker" which features a great drum solo near the end (featuring lots of drum rhythms which we would hear from the up and coming speed/power metal bands of the 80s) after a mind blowing scream by Halford, showing his enormous range going from normal speaking pitch to an incredibly high note. The only flaw I can find in the vocal performance is the fact that Halford doesn't communicate almost at all with the crowd, apart from the odd "thank you!" leading to suspicions that this album, especially the vocals which sound just too good, are faked in the studio and just thrown over the live sound, or even worse, tracks played in the studio (this would also explain why the sound is so crystal clear) with crowd noises added. Of course, Glenn Tipton denies these accusations, saying that some of Halford's vocals were rounded up in the studio, along with a few guitar parts, of course we all know priest can easily play all these songs live, so why even bother to claim that the album is fake?
The production is, like I said, perfect; every instrument is completely audible, even to "bass-deaf" persons like me, Hill's instrument gives a thick, powerful rhythm, particularly on the tracks "The Green Manalishi" and "Tyrant." The guitar tone is perfect, just enough distortion to make out the notes, and the leads sound perfectly clear with some cool effects thrown in in various moments of the album.
Ok so it sounds great, the cover looks great, everyone's ranting about it so much I don't really have nothing to add. Go fetch it now. Download, buy, whatever. Just grab it.
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written by Valentin B | 06.01.2008 |
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Staff review byPierre Tombale
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8.5
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This live-record delivers the goods, indeed it contains some of the best-ever-released versions of Judas Priest's 70's songs. The quality, especially of the remastered version, is very competetive to other live recordings such as 'Iron Maiden's Live After Death'. You can also call it a 'Live-Quasi-Best of the 70's.'
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Nice trivial fact... on the cover photo there is no drummer.
Apparently the photos taken in Japan weren't good enough so they made new pictures in a British by a friend photographer Fin Costello. Tthat was doen some time halfway through 1979 when Les had already left the band. So they had to be creative covering up the empty drums.
As for tampering with the sound in the studio...
Rob Halford's vocals aren't of the live tour. He sung everything again in the studio when the band returned to England. The reason for this as Rob admits was that his voice was in quite a bad state when they arrived in Japan, and to make things worse he even caught a flu on that tour.
But that fact notwithstanding it is still a brilliant album, just a shame they didn't release the enitre concert as a double album. |
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| Btw the interview I took this from was published in the january/february 2008 issue of Aardschok Magazine where they feature a 4-page special on Unleashed In The East. |
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SmellyStuff - 07.01.2008 at 04:03
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| I've heard bootlegs from the Japan tour of '79 and his vocals aren't as bad as they're made out to be. And I agree Marcel, it's a pity they didn't make a double album because they omitted Beyond the Realms of Death! WHY!? |
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Really great live album, this was actually the first album I bought that was by any other band than Iron Maiden  good and interesting review!
And though I am a musician, even I often feel like I'm "bass-deaf"  |
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Written by Guest on 07.01.2008 at 04:03
I've heard bootlegs from the Japan tour of '79 and his vocals aren't as bad as they're made out to be. And I agree Marcel, it's a pity they didn't make a double album because they omitted Beyond the Realms of Death! WHY!?
they forgot lots of tracks: Dreamer Deceiver, Killing Machine, Island of Domination, Stained Class, Better by You Better than Me, not to mention DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR!......AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!! |
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