Artist: JUDAS PRIEST
Album: UNLEASHED IN THE EAST REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1979/ 2001
EAN/UPS: 5099750213025
Media type: CD

Unleashed in the East is Judas Priest's first live album, recorded live in Tokyo, Japan during the Hell Bent for Leather tour in 1979. It was released in October 1979 and reached the US Top 100.

To which extent the album was really live remains a matter of contention, critics sometimes calling the album Unleashed in the Studio. Years later, after he had left Priest, Rob Halford noted in various interviews that the music was indeed live, but that his vocals had been ruined in the original recording and were later dubbed in a concert-like studio setting.

ReissuesThe album was reissued on CD in 2001 with four bonus tracks, being "Rock Forever", "Delivering the Goods", "Hell Bent for Leather" and "Starbreaker". Three of these were from their then-current album "Killing Machine" (Hell Bent For Leather in the US), which was not well-represented on the original release.

TRACKLIST:
No. Title Writer(s) Length

1. "Exciter"   Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton 5:38
2. "Running Wild"   Tipton 2:53
3. "Sinner"   Halford, Tipton 7:31
4. "The Ripper"   Tipton 2:44
5. "The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac cover) Peter Green 3:16
6. "Diamonds & Rust" (Joan Baez cover) Joan Baez 3:30
7. "Victim of Changes"   Al Atkins, Halford, K.K. Downing, Tipton 7:12
8. "Genocide"   Halford, Downing, Tipton 7:19
9. "Tyrant"   Halford, Tipton 4:32

2001 remaster bonus tracks

10. "Rock Forever"   Halford, Downing, Tipton 3:27
11. "Delivering the Goods"   Halford, Downing, Tipton 4:07
12. "Hell Bent for Leather"   Tipton 2:40
13. "Starbreaker"   Halford, Downing, Tipton 6:00