Redeemer of Souls Tour
The Redeemer of Souls Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English heavy metal band, Judas Priest, which was in support of Redeemer of Souls. It was their first tour since the conclusion of the Epitaph World Tour in 2012, which was originally dubbed as a farewell tour; the band has since retracted that statement.
The 2016 live album, Battle Cry, was released on 25 March of that year, featuring the band's performance recorded at Wacken Open Air on 1 August 2015.
Support
For the first American leg, Judas Priest choose glam rock band, Steel Panther, to play with them. Their guitar player, Russ Parrish, had previously worked with Rob Halford in the 1990s in the band Fight.Other bands that supported Judas Priest include:
- Motörhead
- Def Leppard
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Accept
- DragonForce
- Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock
- Saxon
- Mastodon
- UFO
- Texas Hippie Coalition
- Thin Lizzy
- Texas Hippie Coalition
Setlists
The tour featured material from Redeemer of Souls for the first time. It also coincided with the 30th anniversary of the release of Defenders of the Faith and so the band played a number of songs from that album that hadn't been played since the mid-1980s.- "Dragonaut"
- "Metal Gods"
- "Devils Child"
- "Victim of Changes"
- "Halls of Valhalla"
- "Love Bites"
- "March of the Damned"
- "Turbo Lover"
- "Redeemer of Souls"
- "Beyond the Realms of Death"
- "Jawbreaker"
- "Breaking the Law"
- "Hell Bent for Leather"
- ; Encore 1
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin"
- ; Encore 2
- "Living After Midnight"
- "Defenders of the Faith"
- "Dragonaut"
- "Metal Gods"
- "Devils Child"
- "Victim of Changes"
- "Halls of Valhalla"
- "Love Bites"
- "March of the Damned"
- "Turbo Lover"
- "Redeemer of Souls"
- "Beyond the Realms of Death"
- "Jawbreaker"
- "Breaking the Law"
- "Hell Bent for Leather"
- ; Encore 1
- "The Hellion / Electric Eye"
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin"
- ; Encore 2
- "Painkiller"
- "Living After Midnight"
- "Dragonaut"
- "Metal Gods"
- "Devils Child"
- "Victim of Changes"
- "Halls of Valhalla"
- "Love Bites"
- "Redeemer of Souls"
- "Beyond the Realms of Death"
- "Jawbreaker"
- "Breaking the Law"
- "Hell Bent for Leather"
- ; Encore 1
- "The Hellion / Electric Eye"
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin"
- ; Encore 2
- "Painkiller"
- "Living After Midnight"
- "Dragonaut"
- "Metal Gods"
- "Desert Plains"
- "Victim of Changes"
- "Halls of Valhalla"
- "The Rage"
- "Turbo Lover"
- "Redeemer of Souls"
- "Beyond the Realms of Death"
- "Screaming for Vengeance"
- "Breaking the Law"
- "Hell Bent for Leather"
- ; Encore 1
- "The Hellion / Electric Eye"
- "You've Got Another Thing Comin"
- ; Encore 2
- "Painkiller"
- "Living After Midnight"
26 June 2015: "Love Bites" and "March of the Damned" was removed from the set.
16 October 2015: "Desert Plains", "The Rage" and "Screaming for Vengeance" were added, "Devil's Child" and "Jawbreaker" were removed from the set.