Description

Region free European pressing in super jewel case with a 12 page booklet

Live In London leans heavy into Priest’s older stuff playing a lot of songs from British Steel: Metal Gods, Breaking The Law, United (first live recording?), Living After Midnight. Live In London also manages to blend in solid versions of post-Vengeance/Defender Priest which many fans say was when things started to go downhill for them musically with Touch Of Evil and Turbo Lover. They even mixed in a little more brutal fanfare with Painkiller. The only thing here is that many tracks like the semi-acoustic mellow-to-metal version of Diamonds And Rust and too many other songs sung by Ripper and backed by the band on their previously released live album 98 Meltdown. In fact, if you compare these two live albums you’ll find that both contain 18 of the same songs. And if you listen to both they are all too similar versions as well. Therefore, if you already own 98 Meltdown, you didn’t like Demolition and you aren’t sentimental to possessing/collecting possibly Ripper Owens Priest swan song, then you have very little reason to buy this release. In summary, Live In London is as familiar and somewhat predictable as the signature Priest Harley riding in for a whipping encore performance of Hell Bent For Leather. It isn’t quite the same caliber as Unleashed In The East or even the later Priest Live, but it shouldn’t taint Ripper Owens resume nor leave heavy metal Priest fans screaming for vengeance.

Track listing:
1. Metal Gods
2. Touch Of Evil
3. Blood Stained
4. Victim Of Changes
5. One On One
6. Running Wild
7. Ripper
8. Diamonds And Rust
9. Feed On Me
10. Burn In Hell
11. Hell Is Home
12. Breaking The Law
13. Desert Plains
14. Turbo Lover
15. Painkiller
16. Hellion-Electric Eye
17. United
18. Living After Midnight
19. Hell Bent For Leather
20. Demolition Time
21. Desert Plains-soundcheck
22. Running Wild-soundcheck
23. Turbo Lover-soundcheck
24. The Sentinel-soundcheck
25. Machine Man-soundcheck
26. Lost And Found-video