Sony Music Entertainment Australia are proud to release the newly expanded version of the classic Judas Priest album, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH. The new package includes the original ten track album, remastered by producer Tom Allom, and a complete live recording from the Defenders tour, recorded at the Long Beach Arena in California on May 5th, 1984.

The 2CD 21-track concert perfectly balances the then-new material from the group's ninth studio offering overall, including such classics as ‘Metal Gods’, 'Breaking the Law’, 'Sinner’, 'Electric Eye', 'The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)', 'Victim of Changes' and 'You’ve Got Another Thing Coming‘.

Coming off an era which saw several Judas Priest albums go down as some of the greatest in the entire history of heavy metal (namely, 1980's BRITISH STEEL and 1982's SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE), the band from Birmingham knew that their next release had to deliver the goods to cement their standing as the leaders of metal. And deliver they did, with their US Platinum certified 1984 release, DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH, which spawned such head-banging classics as 'Freewheel Burning’, 'Jawbreaker’, 'The Sentinel’, 'Some Heads Are Gonna Roll' and 'Love Bites‘.

As the band have stated on the reissue: "It's 30 years since we released DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH - we're very proud to say it has become a classic that's beloved by Priest fans throughout the world.”

Judas Priest continues to defend the faith to this day. The group recently issued their seventeenth studio album REDEEMER OF SOULS, which saw the band's popularity amongst metal-heads remain as strong as ever with the album debuting higher than any other previous Priest release (at #6 on the US Billboard 200). On the group's current tour, quite a few classics from DEFENDERS are being performed for the first time in years.

Now fans will get a chance to re-experience vintage Judas Priest, with the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH reissue.