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Unleashed in the East | 
 enlarge | Artist: Judas Priest
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $6.68
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 8433
Format: Extra Tracks, Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86182
UPC: 696998618220
EAN: 6969986182206
ASIN: B00005R62N
Release Date: November 6, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Exciter | | • | Running Wild | | • | Sinner | | • | The Ripper | | • | The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown) | | • | Diamonds And Rust | | • | Victim Of Changes | | • | Genocide | | • | Tyrant | | • | Rock Forever | | • | Delivering The Goods | | • | Hell Bent For Leather | | • | Starbreaker |
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While Judas Priest's first three Columbia albums displayed a band that seemed musically restless and a bit wary of becoming just another rock caricature, their first official live album offers up a strong distillation of the musical sense that informed those records (along with earlier material from Sad Wings of Destiny) and is a testament to their KK Dowling/Glen Tipton fueled twin-guitar fury. The fact that vocalist Rob Halford's tracks (allegedly damaged in the recording process) were later replaced in the studio has long been a bone of contention to purists (though hardly an unusual practice in the industry), but fresh ears may find the "problem" actually resulted in a better-sounding record. More gratifying, the original album's manic sensibility has been amped even further by the inclusion of four key live, previously unreleased bonus tracks--"Rock Forever," "Delivering the Goods," "Hell Bent for Leather," and "Starbreaker." This digitally remastered edition also features new notes by the band and expanded artwork. This is Judas Priest's early arena rock at its over-the-top best: big, loud, and wholly unapologetic. --Jerry McCulley
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Finest Aged Cheddar... July 8, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
There's good cheese and bad cheese; at their best, Judas Priest was the former, and this live offering from 1978 in front of a crowd of adoring Japanese shows them at their very best. For those not familiar with the Metal Gods, Unleashed in the East is the best introduction. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath may have created the framework for Anglo Saxon Heavy Music, but the Priest, by ditching the blues changes for baroque prog structures, adding a second guitar, and playing at blinding velocity, may lay claim to being the first true Metal band, progenitor of speed, thrash, power, and sadly, hair metal, the latter being weird because the lead singer was bald and proud of it. (Halford's willingness to opt for close cropped hair in the mid-'70's when all metal folk had to be hirsuit always seemed to me more courageous than his coming out of the closet years later...)Evidence of why they are not merely kitsch: their inspired choice of covers. JP lay waste to, of all things, Joan Baez's kiss-off to Dylan, "Diamonds and Rust," and turn it into molten metal. Their version of Fleetwood Mac's "Green Manalishi" makes Peter Green's ode to a succubus into the purest Gothic horroshow imaginable, blood-curdling. This disc contains only the fastest and most relentless songs from their early albums, when they seemed to inhabit some sort of Lovecraftian dystopia and before they began writing the mindless MTV party anthems that put them in the Top 40. For pure onslaught, Motorhead was their only competition. Secret weapon: Rob Halford's banshee shriek, he gives Robert Plant a run for his money in the titanium-throated operatic male soprano department. I just found out that Judas Priest is touring with Motorhead this August and will be in my state -- this is one King Kong v. Godzilla show I am not going to pass up.
Buy it for the live version of "Green Manalishi"! March 2, 2008
Judas Priest are great. This live disc is great. But if you don't buy the disc then you have to buy the "Green Manalishi" download. The live version of "Green Manalishi" is one of the greatest rock songs ever and I don't mean one of the greatest live songs ever but one of the greatest rock songs ever!
Do not buy the studio version of "Green Manalishi", it pales in comparison to the live version.
marshall stacks February 16, 2008
as far as i know, this was the first album that was unrelenting metal from first song to last. no artsy stuff, no mood pieces, just pounding metal all the way through. want to hear early priest at their best, here it is.
One of the all time best live Metal recordings October 5, 2007
If you could only own 2 albums by Judas Priest, get this one and "Sad Wings Of Destiny." Both are flawless and show off the considerable compositional and performing talents of this amazing band. "Unleashed In The East" was a blueprint for future rockers and heavy metalist and is considered one of the all time best live recordings of a metal band, get it and you'll see why.
Priest rule: and this album is one of the reasons.
Good God......pluck me! May 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In 1979, there was no band heavier than Judas Priest! Motorhead and AC/DC were worthy contenders, but only Lemmy's boys came close to ripping your head off like Priest at the end of the '70's. A live testament is usually a metal bands claim to faim and the boys produced a whopper in 'Unleashed in the East' in October of said year. In many ways, this record was the ultimate greatest hits package as classics from 'Sad Wings' ran alongside the best of their Columbia Records years to date. "Sinner" is long, gothic and majestic, possibly KK Downing's best moment on record. "Exciter" roars out of the gates and "The Ripper" is a full frontal assault on the senses. "Green Manalishi" was a Peter Green's Mac blues tune but with added metallic power and here it blows away both the Mac's and Priest's own studio version. "Tyrant" was a fantastic way to end the original album but my one quibble would be that with all of the classics from 'Sad Wings' (cept for "Ripper" which is flawless)and especially "Victim of Changes" (my all-time favorite by Priest!), the tempo is too fast. I appreciate the studio cuts more which had a classic Sabbathesque feel, but again it is a minor quibble. Also, one song from 'Stained Class', a album many consider to be the Metal Gods finest hour in the studio, is not enough. Bonus cuts are for once in this terrible remasters series (with the bonus songs that is) an absolute must as each song is special and perfectly chosen (special nod to "Delivering the Goods" and of course "Hell Bent for Leather", to of my all timers). As to what ever doctoring the band did to this record before release....who gives a crap! Mention any great live record of the last thirty plus years and chances are they have significant overdubs! Halford rerecorded his vocals? God bless him! That what makes Priest so great and on a winter night in Japan, they melted some faces!
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