It is inevitable that, over half a century and 18 albums in, you are going to have overlooked a couple of Judas Priest songs. Some you may very well not have heard at all. It’s not because they’re not as good as the hits – and Metal God(s) are not nicknames lightly earned – and lurking in the shadows of every Painkiller, Breaking The Law or Hell Bent For Leather, there are at least an equal number of tunes that deliver the good just as hard.
The band’s return to Bloodstock looms. And, chaps, if you’re putting together a setlist and want to drop any of these in there, nothing would be lost. Here, then, is the best Priest mixtape you may well never have heard…