EPITAPH (BLU-RAY)

Judas Priest, the heavy metal legends whose influence on generations of musicians and metalheads is incalculable, celebrate their 40th year as recording artists this year with the release of the live concert "EPITAPH", A unique live career retrospective, EPITAPH will be released through Legacy Recordings. Judas Priest's current lineup comprises lead singer Rob Halford, lead guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. Heavy metal historians will regard EPITAPH as the most far-reaching live concert recording in the band's career, The set revisits the climactic closing date of the 50-week "Epitaph World Tour," captured live at London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo on May 26, 2012, Adding to the drama is the fact that this was Judas Priest's final large-scale world tour ever, EPITAPH's 23 tracks represent at least one song from every one of the band's 14 studio albums, from 1974's Rocka Rolla ("Never Satisfied") to 2008's Nostradamus ("Prophecy"). In the special case of British Steel, four songs are featured: "Rapid Fire," "Metal Gods," "Breaking The Law," and perennial set closer, "Living After Midnight." Others exempted from the one-song-quota are the LPs which appeared before and after British Steel, The first of these is 1979's Hell Bent For Leather (UK title: Killing Machine) which lends the title song as well as "The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)." The other LP is 1982's Screaming For Vengeance, source of "The Hellion," "Electric Eye," and "You've Got Another Thing Coming."

On May 26, 2012, Judas Priest wrapped up their epic EPITAPH world tour with a storming set at London's Hammersmith Apollo. The band, having announced that this would be their final large-scale world tour, celebrated their last and possibly final show with an incredible career-spanning set list that brought down the house. In addition to performing all their classics Breaking the Law, Living After Midnight and You've Got Another Thing Coming the priest dug deep into their catalog, Performing at least one song from each of their albums, which rounded off their 23-song set list. Now, one year later, this legendary set will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital long form video by Legacy Recordings (us). The EPITAPH captures priests electrifying over the top metal Onslaught and is proof they are still at the top of their game after 40 years of head banging.