Judas Priest kicked off their summer time 2025 Defend of Ache tour with a present dominated by songs from their traditional Painkiller album Thursday night time at Rockfest in Turku, Finland. You’ll be able to see the whole setlist and fan-shot video from the present beneath.
Seven of the 19 songs the British heavy metallic legends carried out on the present had been from the 1990 album, which discovered the band powerfully re-asserting their place within the heavy metallic hierarchy after the emergence of thrash metallic pioneers similar to Metallica and Slayer.
After performing solely the title monitor from Painkiller on their 2024-2025 Invincible Defend tour, Rob Halford and firm added the opening one-two punch of “All Weapons Blazing” and “Hell Patrol,” “A Contact of Evil,” “Night time Crawler” (first time since 2012), “One Shot at Glory” and “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” from the album on the Rockfest present.
The night time additionally marked the stay debut of “The Serpent and the King,” from the band’s most up-to-date album, 2024’s Invincible Defend. Remarkably, the band left the Screaming for Vengeance opening monitor “Electrical Eye” out of the setlist.
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Judas Priest’s 2025 European tour continues Saturday, June 14 in Hamar, Norway and is ready to conclude July 25 in London on the O2. The band will group up with Alice Cooper and Corrosion of Conformity for a North American tour that kicks off Sept 16 in Biloxi, Mississippi. You may get full present and ticket data on the band’s official website.
Judas Priest Setlist — June 12, 2025
1. “All Weapons Blazing” (first time since 2019, first time as an opener)
2. “Hell Patrol”
3. “You have Received One other Factor Comin'”
4. “Freewheel Burning”
5. “Breaking the Legislation”
6. “A Contact of Evil”
7. “Night time Crawler” (first time since 2012)
8. “Firepower”
9. “Photo voltaic Angels” (first time since 2005)
10. “Gates of Hell”
11. “Metallic Gods”
12. “The Serpent and the King” (stay debut)
13. “One Shot at Glory”
14. “Between the Hammer and the Anvil”
15. “Judas Rising”
16. “Giants within the Sky” (stay debut)
17. “Painkiller”
18. “Hell Bent for Leather-based”
19. “Residing After Midnight”
Through setlist.fm
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “All Weapons Blazing”
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “Hell Patrol”
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “Night time Crawler”
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “One Shot at Glory”
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “The Serpent and the King”
Watch Judas Priest Carry out “A Contact of Evil”
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