Battle Cry (Judas Priest album)

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Battle Cry
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Live album by
Judas Priest
Released25 March 2016
Recorded1 August 2015
Venue Wacken Open Air (Wacken, Germany)
Genre Heavy metal
Length75:28
Label Epic
Producer Tom Allom & Jack Ruston
Judas Priest chronology
A Touch of Evil: Live
(2009)		Battle Cry
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Battle Cry is the sixth live album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 25 March 2016. [2] It was recorded at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany on 1 August 2015 during their Redeemer of Souls Tour. The album was released as both a standalone title and a bundled package containing the DVD version. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Battle Cry" (Intro) 0:33
2."Dragonaut"Halford, Tipton, Richie Faulkner 4:12
3."Metal Gods" 4:13
4."Devil's Child" 5:18
5."Victim of Changes" Al Atkins, Halford, Tipton, Downing8:58
6."Halls of Valhalla"Halford, Tipton, Faulkner6:07
7."Redeemer of Souls"Halford, Tipton, Faulkner4:10
8."Beyond the Realms of Death"Halford, Les Binks 7:01
9."Jawbreaker" 4:05
10."Breaking the Law" 2:47
11."Hell Bent for Leather"Tipton4:26
12."The Hellion" (Intro) 0:36
13."Electric Eye" 4:36
14."You've Got Another Thing Comin'" 11:02
15."Painkiller" 7:25

Note

Two songs Judas Priest performed at the festival, "Turbo Lover" and "Living After Midnight", were omitted from the album. However, they do appear on the video release.

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [4] 57
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [5] 78
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [6] 90
French Albums (SNEP) [7] 180
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 29
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [9] 28
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [10] 78
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [11] 37
Scottish Albums (OCC) [12] 63
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [13] 60
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [14] 34
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [15] 5
US Billboard 200 [16] 90
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [17] 9
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [18] 25
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [19] 11

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