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Overall Rating
4.7
By GoSpursGooooo
Rocking
It was a great show! The sound and light were on point.. Judas Priest still rocking ..
By Dmvee66
SA was the Bomb!
This was my 4th show of the tour and it definitely was the highlight. beginning with Andy Sneap playing with Saxon, and Tyrant being added to the set for the 1st time in 38 years. And of course Glenn Tipton played the last 3 songs.. Just incredible!
By Metalapocalypse
Firepower
Despite not featuring the original two guitarist Glenn and KK, Priest delivered an epic performance in San Antonio Texas. They keep on ticking.
By Joetallica
Judas Priest was awesome
Judas Priest was awesome my first time seeing they . Happy I got to see they live n to hear all my favorite songs .
By FILSTER
Judas Priest Live in San Antonio was Amazing!!!
The Judas Priest / Saxon concert here in San Antonio 5/1/18 was an absolutely amazing show to be remembered! Saxon was great as usual and played a great mixture of new & classic songs! Then Judas Priest headlined and blew us all away!! The set list was awesome & Rob Halford was in top form, his voice was absolutely amazing! Great set list & he played a few songs like Tyrant & Saints In Hell that hadn't been played live in over 35 years! Loved the show and will definitely rank in my top 5 greatest concerts I have attended ever! And I go to alot of concerts. This concert was AMAZING!!!!
By LSSanAntonio
Greatest rock show on earth!
4th time I've seen them, every time better than before.
By WPMNC
Judas Priest still rockin
Great show. The last one of this tour, they played an additional song. Did not disappoint.
By WXman2015
Awesome concert
Rocked out as usual. Judas Priest is always a good show.
By lynrd566
Judas Priest
It was freaking amazing, Rob Halford's voice is still as if he were back in the 80s. Glen Tipton showed up and made it even more awesome, definitely a must see show
By alterna63
I'm going to miss this band
I am so very glad that my two boys FINALLY got to see this amazing heavy metal band. I started listening to the Priest back in 1978, and in fact saw their second appearance here in the United States in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston Texas. I have seen Judas Priest probably more than any other band, with the exception of RUSH maybe. My kids, especially my oldest has become a HUGE Priest fan since I introduced them to this band. It was so gratifying to see just how much they both enjoyed the show in Sugarland TX. this past Sunday night. I fear that this will be the only time they will ever get to see this band however. The show on Sunday night was the night after the Dallas show and Rob was having a really hard time singing and hitting notes. There were many times that he disappeared and went behind the curtain, and it was not just for a costume change. The crowd had to do a lot of the singing for Rob, as he just could not sing too much this night. I think at age 66, he is doing one hell of a job though and I give him the upmost credit for attacking back to back nights of singing heavy metal. I do think that the Sugarland TX show suffered greatly as a result of them doing back to back nights without a rest. This being said, and regardless of this fact, this show was one of the very best simply because my two kids had an awesome time and I so much enjoyed seeing the smiles on their faces and watching them rock out. It was so good to see Glenn Tipton as well! It made our night! Keep rocking as long as you possibly can guys! We love you!!!!!! Thank you for a great show as always and good luck on the rest of your tour! Love the new album as well!
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!