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Battle Cry
Battle Cry is Judas Priest's sixth live album, released on 25 March 2016 through Epic. It captures the English heavy metal band at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany on 1 August 2015, part of the tour that followed their 2014 studio album Redeemer of Souls.
It arrived as a standalone release and also as a bundle with the DVD version, so fans could watch the show as well as hear it. For anyone who has followed the band from Rocka Rolla in 1974 through to the recent run of records, it offers a snapshot of Priest on a big festival stage in the middle of the 2010s.
Battle Cry: tracklist, credits and charts
15 tracks · 1:15:28Tracklist
- 1(intro) Battle CryFaulkner, Halford, Tipton0:32
- 2DragonautFaulkner, Halford, Tipton4:12
- 3Metal GodsDowning, Halford, Tipton4:13
- 4Devil’s ChildDowning, Halford, Tipton5:18
- 5Victim of ChangesAtkins, Downing, Halford, Tipton8:58
- 6Halls of ValhallaFaulkner, Halford, Tipton6:07
- 7Redeemer of SoulsFaulkner, Halford, Tipton4:10
- 8Beyond the Realms of DeathLes Binks and Rob Halford7:01
- 9JawbreakerDowning, Halford, Tipton4:05
- 10Breaking the LawDowning, Halford, Tipton2:47
- 11Hell Bent for LeatherGlenn Tipton4:26
- 12The HellionDowning, Halford, Tipton0:36
- 13Electric EyeDowning, Halford, Tipton4:36
- 14You’ve Got Another Thing ComingDowning, Halford, Tipton11:02
- 15PainkillerDowning, Halford, Tipton7:25
- Produced by
- Tom Allom & Jack Ruston, Tom Allom
- Recorded at
- True Metal Stage
- Recorded
- 1 August 2015
- Label
- Epic
- Length
- 1:15:28
Line-up
- Richie Faulkner · electric guitar
- Ian Hill · electric bass guitar
- Glenn Tipton · electric guitar
- Scott Travis · drums (drum set)
- Rob Halford · lead vocals
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| US Billboard 200 · 2016 | 90 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2016 | 5 |
| US Hard Rock · 2016 | 9 |
| US Tastemaker · 2016 | 11 |
| US Top Rock Albums · 2016 | 25 |
| Hungarian Albums · 2016 | 28 |
| German Albums · 2016 | 29 |
| Swiss Albums · 2016 | 34 |
| Norwegian Albums · 2016 | 37 |
| Austrian Albums · 2016 | 57 |
All 16 charts
| Spanish Albums · 2016 | 60 |
| Scottish Albums · 2016 | 63 |
| Belgian Albums (Flanders) · 2016 | 78 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon) · 2016 | 78 |
| Belgian Albums (Wallonia) · 2016 | 90 |
| French Albums · 2016 | 180 |
From MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Only what the sources record is shown.
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How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz + wikidata
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 25 March 2016 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 25 March 2016 | |
| Wikidata | 25 March 2016 | |
| Deezer | 25 March 2016 | |
| US release | 25 March 2016 | earliest US date |
4 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 March 2016 | US | Epic | original | |
| 25 March 2016 | US | Epic | 889853023097 | original |
| 25 March 2016 | AT | Columbia | 889853022625 | original |
| 25 March 2016 | XW | Columbia | 886445700381 | original |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| coverartarchive | 1292×1500 | rejected |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |