Defenders of the Faith
Defenders of the Faith | ||||
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Studio album by Judas Priest | ||||
Publication |
4th January 1984 |
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Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
39:43 |
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Defenders of the Faith (. English for " defender of the faith ") is the ninth studio album by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest . The album was released on January 4, 1984 on Columbia Records .
Emergence
The album was recorded with Tom Allom at Ibiza Sound Studios on the Spanish island of Ibiza . It was mixed from September to November 1983 at DB Recording Studios and Bayshore Recording Studios in Coconut Grove , Miami , Florida . The CD version was only released in July 1984. A remastered CD was released in 2001.
On the back of the album cover you can read: Rising from darkness where Hell hath no mercy and the screams for vengeance echo on forever. Only those who keep the faith shall escape the wrath of the Metallian ... Master of all metal. The Metallian is the fighting machine depicted on the front of the album.
Track list
Text and music are provided by Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford and KK Downing unless otherwise noted.
- Freewheel Burning - 4:22
- Jawbreaker - 3:25
- Rock Hard Ride Free - 5:34
- The Sentinel - 5:04
- Love Bites - 4:47
- Eat Me Alive - 3:34
- Some Heads Are Gonna Roll - 4:05 (Robert Halligan, Jr.)
- Night Comes Down - 3:58
- Heavy Duty - 2:25
- Defenders of the Faith - 1:30
Bonus tracks (re-release 2001)
- Turn on Your Light - 5:23
- Heavy Duty / Defenders of the Faith (Live) - 5:26
reception
Allmusic's Steve Huey wrote that the album was one of the most underrated albums in the Judas Priest catalog. He awarded 4 out of 5 stars. The editors of Rock Hard magazine selected the album in 2007 at 31st place in their list of the best 500 albums. Andreas Himmelstein only mentioned Dave Holland's "rather unspectacular" way of playing as a weak point. Otherwise, the record is underrated, as there are hardly any songs from "this consistently first-class album in the band's live program".
The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200 . The Sentinel was covered by Machine Head on Unto the Locust and Heavens Gate on Planet E.
Web links
- Defenders of the Faith at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Steve Huey: Defenders of the Faith - Review , allmusic.com (English). Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock and Metal, Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 214