Judas Priest 'A Touch of Evil Live' album

Judas Priest has chosen 10 songs not previously released in live album form for its next concert set -- "A Touch of Evil: Live," which is due out July 14th, in the midst of the band's U.S. summer tour.

"A Touch of Evil" includes live renderings of longtime fan favorites such as "Painkiller," "Dissident Aggressor, "Riding on the Wind," "Between the Hammer & the Anvil" and "Eat Me Alive," as well as "Hellrider" from "Angel of Retribution," the group's 2004 reunion album with frontman Rob Halford, and two tracks -- "Death" and "Prophecy" -- from last year's rock opera "Nostradamus."

"I love those songs," Halford told Billboard.com. "All of those songs just crush. Because they've never been recorded live in this way, it's just something fresh to put out. And when you listen to it and think this band has been around for three decades, with a combined age of 250-something years...I mean, how cool is that? It's a very fierce record and just captures the band's attitude and feeling in a very strong, determined way.

"I mean, we could've put 'Living After Midnight' or 'You've Got Another Thing Coming' out -- again. But why? This is just something great to give our fans."

Judas Priest, meanwhile, is preparing for its summer tour, during which the band will play its 1980 album "British Steel" -- which includes "Living After Midnight" -- in its entirety from front to back.

"All of us around the world have our respective headphones on, ready to dive into the deep end together," Halford said of preparations for the tour. "It's very bare-bones in terms of production, which in essence makes it a lot easier to re-learn in rehearsals.

"We're all very excited about it. 'British Steel' means a lot to everybody in Priest. I listened to it for the first time recently and I thought, 'Man, this is gonna be so cool to play this stuff live.'"

The Priest tour, with Whitesnake opening, kicks off June 29th in Indianapolis and wraps up August 23rd in Gilford, N.H. Halford says the band still plans to play "Nostradamus" in its entirety later this year or in 2010.

The band is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its classic album "British Steel" with a lengthy summer tour. Since first announcing their plans in early spring, they have added dozens of concerts to their itinerary, which now stands at roughly 40 dates.

Whitesnake will appear on most dates of the tour as a special guest. The lineup will also feature Pop Evil as an opener for both bands on 26 dates. Details about the tour's nightly lineup can be found at the official Judas Priest Web site.

Judas Priest tour dates
June 29 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Center *
July 1 - St. Charles, MO - Family Arena
July 2 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
July 3 - St. Paul, MN - Taste of Minnesota
July 5 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theatre
July 7 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center
July 8 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC
July 9 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
July 11 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Pavilion
July 12 - Wantaugh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 14 - Cleveland, OH - Time Warner Cable Amphitheater
July 15 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theater
July 17 - Walker, MN - Moondance Jam
July 18 - Chippewa Falls, WI - Rock Festival *
July 19 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
July 21 - Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion
July 22 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium
July 24 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theater
July 25 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
July 26 - Corpus Christi, TX - Concrete Street Amphitheater
July 29 - Paso Robles, CA - California Mid-State Fair
July 31 - Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion
August 1 - Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 2 - Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre
August 4 - San Diego, CA - SDSU Open Air Theatre
August 5 - Costa Mesa, CA - OC Fair
August 7 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
August 8 - Las Vegas, NV - Thomas & Mack Center
August 10 - Albuquerque, NM - Sandia Resort & Casino *
August 11 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 13 - Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre
August 15 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheatre
August 16 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
August 17 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Live
August 19 - Estero, FL - Germain Arena
August 20 - Alpharetta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 22 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
August 23 - Gilford, NH - Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion
* only Judas Priest

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