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Defenders of the Faith is the ninth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 4 January 1984 in the US [13] and on 20 January 1984 in the UK. [2] The album was certified platinum by the RIAA, [13] and spawned the singles "Freewheel Burning", "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll", and "Love Bites".
"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" is a song by the English heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1984 studio album, Defenders of the Faith, and issued as a single later that year.
"Freewheel Burning" is a song by the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, appearing on their 1984 album Defenders of the Faith, and released as the first single off that album. The 12" version of the single contained an extended guitar intro that was omitted on the full-length release.
The 2015 release of Defenders of the Faith's 30th anniversary edition features the concert from 5 May 1984 in Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California in its entirety.. Prior to this release, select tracks from the same concert were featured as bonus tracks on the 2001 remasters of Sin After Sin, British Steel, Defenders of the Faith, Priest...Live! and Ram It
The cover was once again done by graphic artist Doug Johnson, who designed the Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith covers. "Reckless" was asked to be on the soundtrack of the movie Top Gun, but Judas Priest declined, both because they thought the film would flop and because it would have meant leaving the song off Turbo.
English heavy metal band Judas Priest have released 19 studio albums, six live albums, seven compilation albums, 29 singles, 10 video albums, and 21 music videos. The band currently consists of bassist Ian Hill, drummer Scott Travis, singer Rob Halford, and guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner.
The song "Riding on the Wind" was featured in the 2012 video game Twisted Metal. As well as "You've Got Another Thing Comin ' " featuring in the eleventh season 's first episode, Archer continues the running gag of Dr. Krieger 's vans with "Screaming for Van-geance" featuring in the episode "Helping Hands".
The only other Judas Priest albums of which all the songs have been performed live are Defenders of the Faith (1984) and Rocka Rolla (1974), but neither of them were played in the original LP running order or during the same tour (though the original US debut LP had a different running order than the UK version).