Judas Priest-Unleashed In The East (1979)

'Unleashed In The East' is considered by many to be the best studio-recorded live album in history. In fact, Glenn Tipton acknowledges that some of Rob Halford's voice overdubs were re-recorded in the studio, but absolutely nothing else. It seems credible that Judas Priest, in February 1979, which is when the Japanese tour in which this album was recorded was made, were at an optimal moment, which would not lead them to have to organize a testing laboratory to release a live album that, in any case, transmits the strength, aggressiveness and power that the group that led the second generation of heavy metal gods had in 79.
When in November 1978 Judas Priest sold out for three consecutive nights at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, it is when it is considered more or less unofficially that the so-called New Wave Of British Heavy Metal began, which would explode as a true phenomenon of masses in England in the summer of 1980.
The success of this album live and the point of reference that it marked as long as it recovered for a heavy metal group in England that "great" award that had enough success in Japan to record a live album there, he had to necessarily influence the fact that Geoff Barton, founder and director in 1981 of Kerrang! wrote in Sounds in April 1979: “Judas Priest have done more than just put out a flawless live album: They have resurrected an entire genre of music that many had condemned to the rock history books as an outdated and exhausted style Hard rock, the legacy that Black Sabbath or Deep Purple left in the early years of this decade could not be diluted in the nostalgic memory of those who no longer go to concerts, stay home watching “Los Roper” and are scandalized by punks who dance pogo and face the police. It has been an indelible mark on a whole new generation, ready to bring hard rock up to date and give it a new personality Judas Priest are the most relevant example of this new wave of British Heavy Metal ”.
The live versions of “The Green Manalishi”, “The Ripper”, “Exciter”, and the shocking “Tyrant”, make this fantastic album a sensational, unique document of the genesis of everything that legendary New Wave meant. Of British Heavy Metal, of which no one has been able to fail to recognize Judas Priest as spiritual parents, and in whose concerts in Japan recorded on this album - in whose CD reissue "Rock Forever", "Delivering The Goods" were added, "Hell Bent For Leather" and "Starbreaker", sowed the fruitful seed whose fruit would change rock history well into the 80s.