Judas Priest Tickets
All Concerts
London, Great Britain
Dessel, Belgium
Overall Rating
4.7
By Lcfar
Judas Priest still rocks
Judas kicked ass. Rob halford sounded great. Saxon and black star riders sounded great too.
By Misunderstood22
Judas Priest was Amazing !!!!!
Unforgettable , was my first concert with family ❤️
By DizDog
Great show
I had not seen Priest in 20 years. I wish KK Downing was with them. You can tell the difference. Glad to see Glenn Tipton made an appearance while battling Parkinsons. They played Tyrant, which had not been played live in over 30 years. I am glad I went.
By Anonymous
Concert and venue was great! I would recommend to every metal fan!
By Danec1
Awesone!
Great experience share with my youngest son....like in the food old days
By RolandoG
Judas Priest Fire Power SATX
Wow, what a difference 2 guitarists can do to a band. Last I saw JP was during their Epitaph Tour in 2011. Richie Faulkner was playing in place of KK Downing. He is a good guitar player, but he is not KK Downing. They both have their own respective styles in playing. So when Richie plays Judas Priest songs, he is playing in his style. Totally different to me. Now with Glenn Tipton with Parkinson's, we bring in Andy Sneap. He also is a good guitarist, but he plays in his own style too. 2 different guitarists manning the front of Judas Priest. This concert had the same songs and some new songs, but JP sounds totally different. Don't get me wrong, it was a good concert, but to me it was not Judas Priest. Excellent when Glenn Tipton came out and played the last few songs. I could hear the difference. They will still tour and people will come see them, but not see and HEAR the real Judas Priest. Guess I'll have to just listen to my CD's for the original playback.
By Rockernana49
Judas Priest/Glenn Tipton was an unforgettable nig
Best concert experience of my life! Judas Priest was amazing. Seeing Glenn Tipton play his final American show was very special. They played Tyrant for the first time in over 30 years.
By Wolvierock
Metal Gods ruled the night!
It was a night of pure metal magic. The gods were in full form with a perfect set list and a incredible stage design. They played songs that spanned their long career and even dusted off the classic “Tyrant” just for San Antonio fans. It was glorious! Saxon and Black Star Riders were the perfect choices to open the show and set the tone for the night to come. If you get a chance, buy your tickets and prepare for glory!
By Mediocre5
Could have been better.
I was looking forward to listening to the music that made them a great band. They played too many song on their new album. Disappointing.
By perez72
The priest still got it!
Excellent show from saxon and the mighty priest. The sound was excellent from both bands and the set lists were superb as well! Highly recommend, a must see!
Bio
There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their 50+ year career. Their presence and influence remains at an all-time high as evidenced by 2018's 'Firepower' being the highest charting album of their career, a 2010 Grammy Award win for 'Best Metal Performance', plus being a 2006 VH1 Rock Honors recipient and a 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Judas Priest originally formed in 1969 in Birmingham, England (an area that many feel birthed heavy metal). Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing and Ian Hill would be the nucleus of musicians (along with several different drummers over the years) that would go on to change the face of heavy metal. After a 'feeling out' period of a couple of albums, 1974's 'Rocka Rolla' and 1976's 'Sad Wings of Destiny' this line-up truly hit their stride. The result was a quartet of albums that separated Priest from the rest of the hard rock pack - 1977's 'Sin After Sin', 1978's 'Stained Class' and 'Hell Bent for Leather', and 1979's 'Unleashed in the East', which spawned such metal anthems as 'Sinner', 'Diamonds and Rust', 'Hell Bent for Leather', and 'The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)'. Also, Priest were one of the first metal bands to exclusively wear leather and studs - a look that began during this era and would eventually be embraced by metal heads throughout the world.
It could be said that Priest simply owned the '80s as they were second to none as far as pure metal goes, releasing such all-time classic albums as 1980's 'British Steel', 1981's 'Point of Entry', 1982's 'Screaming for Vengeance', and 1984's 'Defenders of the Faith'. Once more, these titles spawned countless enduring metal anthems including 'Breaking the Law', 'Living After Midnight', 'Heading Out to the Highway', and 'You've Got Another Thing Coming'. The '80s were also a decade where Priest became a global arena headliner, offering show-stopping sets at some of the world's biggest festivals, including the first-ever Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Park (1980) in the United Kingdom, the US Festival (1983) in the United States and Live Aid (1985) in the United States.
The remainder of the '80s saw Priest embrace more melodic hard rock sounds on 1986's 'Turbo' and 1988's 'Ram it Down' (in addition to their second live set, 1987's 'Priest...Live!') before releasing arguably the heaviest release of their entire career, 1990's 'Painkiller' (which saw the arrival of Scott Travis on drums). Judas Priest were special guests on the 2004 Ozzfest, appearing alongside Black Sabbath, before issuing 'Angel of Retribution' a year later.
2008 saw the release of the double disc concept album, 'Nostradamus', which peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200, and a year later 'A Touch of Evil: Live' was issued (which led to the group's aforementioned Grammy Award win due to a killer rendition of the classic, 'Dissident Aggressor').
In 2009, Priest began a celebration of the 30-year anniversary of the release of their classic 'British Steel' album, which included a tour that saw the group perform the album in its entirety, and was followed up by an expanded double disc version of 'British Steel' in 2010, plus a DVD of their live show.
By 2011, Downing announced that he was exiting the band. With a still burning desire to continue flying the metal flag, Judas Priest decided to continue on, by enlisting newcomer Richie Faulkner on guitar. The move seemed to have reinvigorated the band, as evidenced by a show-stealing performance on the 'American Idol' TV program, that also served as Faulkner's debut performance with the band (also in 2011, as was the release of a new compilation 'The Chosen Few', which included Priest classics selected by some of metal's biggest names) and the 'Epitaph' concert DVD in 2013. Priest's next studio effort would arrive in 2014, 'Redeemer of Souls', which scaled the U.S. charts to #6, and was supported by another strong tour.
In 2017, Priest received a nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the following year, issuing their latest studio album, 'Firepower.' Co-produced by Tom Allom and Andy Sneap, the 14-track album has become one of the most successful of the band's entire career - landing in the top-5 of 17 countries (including their highest chart placement ever in the U.S., at #5), and scoring their highest charting commercial rock radio single in decades with "Lightning Strike." After wrapping up a highly successful winter/spring tour of North America in 2018, Judas Priest then proceeded to rock across North America with some true heavy metal Firepower in the summer and fall - on tour with fellow rock legends Deep Purple.
And Priest continued to go from strength to strength, with their 'Firepower' tour - including dates throughout the world for the remainder of 2018 and well into 2019, before having to take a forced break from the road with the onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
However, a year later, Priest's 50th Anniversary US Tour started in the UK at a one-off show - Bloodstock Festival in August 2021 - then in September 2021 they started the first US leg, but this had to be postponed due to serious health issues with Richie (which resulted in major emergency heart surgery). They rescheduled the 50th Anniversary tour in the US in March/April 2022 after Richie made a full recovery, and then continued throughout the world with shows throughout 2022.
Also in 2022, Priest band members Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, Ian Hill and Scott Travis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - where they were appointed by legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper.
In 2023, the band were concentrating on recording their new album and hadn't intended to do any shows that year, but when they were offered the massive PowerTrip Music Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, they decided it was too big a festival to turn down - the band co-headlined with AC/DC on October 7th.
Judas Priest's 19thstudio album, Invincible Shield, was issued on March 8, 2024 and the band remain one of metal's top concert attractions, as evidenced by their world tour in support of Invincible Shield, which sold out all over the UK and Europe, and was so successful in North America that a second leg for the fall was just announced.
Priest are storming their way across the globe in 2024 and beyond - currently with headline shows back in Europe plus the second US leg announced and some forthcoming dates in Japan towards the end of the year - the band are spreading their special brand of heavy metal throughout!