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Judas Priest weren't just called the Metal Gods for nothing. For decades, the core of Judas Priest which are guitarists KK Downing and Glenn Tipton, bass player Ian Hill and lead singer Rob Halford and the cast of drummers have successfully defended the faith of metal!

'The Essential Judas Priest' is a 34 track, 2CD retrospective covering the classic heavy metal band's 1976-2005 career. It covers the band's Rob Halford years from 1976-1990 and reunion in 2005. This revised edition now includes tracks from the last album and also licensed tracks from the Koch album 'Sad Wings of Destiny.'

CD1:
1. Victim of Changes
2. The Ripper
3. Sinner
4. Diamonds and Rust
5. Exciter
6. Beyond the Realms of Death
7. Hell Bent for Leather
8. The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)
9. Delivering the Goods
10. Before the Dawn
11. Breaking the Law
12. Metal Gods
13. Living After Midnight
14. Heading out to the Highway
15. The Hellion
16. Electric Eye
17. You've Got Another Thing Comin'
18. Screaming for Vengeance
19. Love Bites

CD2:
1. Freewheel Burning
2. Jawbreaker
3. The Sentinel
4. Turbo Lover
5. Blood Red Skies
6. Ram It Down
7. Painkiller
8. A Touch of Evil
9. Night Crawler
10. Hell Patrol
11. Judas Rising
12. Revolution
13. Nostradamus
14. Dragonaut
15. Redeemer of Souls

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TEYPVKW/?tag=imwan-20

This is a way better version of the 2006 2 CD best of from priest of the same name.

Here, the songs are in the proper chronological order and songs from recent albums are included.

If you are a comp fan or casual Priest fan this comp pretty much gets things right although nothing from the debut or the Ripper era is included.

Again, way better than the 2006 mess.

I own everything already. I have the first two albums from the Renaissance remasters which are stellar sounding.

Yep the track list makes more sense, hated that I hate to change discs to get to Living After Midnight.

Those sound better by far in the Complete Albums box set.

I didn't buy that box set since I own all the previous remasters (for good or for bad ). But the first two albums weren't in that box set if I remember right. Or am I wrong? Never mind.

Anyway, I haven't heard that box set so I can't comment on the quality of Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings Of Destiny. I can say that the remasters I bought were great. I used to own the LP's back in my dinosaur days.

I listened to Redeemer of Souls again this week.

Very impressive album, although a few songs are too similar-sounding.

It is a damn good effort though. It's mastered way too loud, but as for the music Priest couldn't have done much better.

As for this comp, "Hot Rockin'", "Desert Plains" and "Locked In" should have made the cut and one song from each Ripper album.

The only time the Ripper era has been represented on a collection was the Metalogy box.

Isn't there some sort of software that "removes" bad mastering from CDs? I remember hearing something about that a while back.

I don't how on earth it would work, but there are a few CDs in recent years that like to try "un-brickwalling."

Smiff, on the other hands loves brickwalled, bright CDs.