Redeemer of Souls Tour

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Redeemer of Souls Tour
Tour by Judas Priest
Location
  • North America
  • Australia
  • Asia
  • South America
  • Europe
Start date1 October 2014
End date17 December 2015
No. of shows
  • 129
  • 64 in North America
  • 45 in Europe
  • 7 in South America
  • 7 in Oceania
  • 6 in Asia
Judas Priest concert chronology

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.

Contents

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.

Production

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:

  1. Motörhead (5 May 2015 in Santiago, Chile)
  2. Def Leppard (2 June 2015 in Oslo, Norway)
  3. Five Finger Death Punch (8 dates in Europe – France, Finland, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic)
  4. Accept (22 April 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  5. DragonForce (2 dates in Australia at February 2015)
  6. Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock (6 dates in the United Kingdom, between November and December 2015)
  7. Saxon (4 dates in US in May 2015)
  8. Mastodon (12 dates in the US and Canada between October and November 2015)
  9. UFO (10 dates on the European Leg between 4 and 17 December 2015)
  10. Texas Hippie Coalition (14 May 2015 in Cedar Park, Texas, USA)
  11. Thin Lizzy (6 November 2014 in Allen, Texas, USA)
  12. Texas Hippie Coalition (13 July 2015 in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA)

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.

26 February 2015: "The Hellion/Electric Eye" and "Painkiller" were added for the further legs of the tour. Shortly they removed "Defender of the Faith" from the set. 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" (not played since 1986) were added, "Devil's Child" and "Jawbreaker" were removed from the set.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
First leg
1 October 2014 Rochester United States Main Street Armory
3 October 2014 Hammond The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
4 October 2014 Louisville Louder Than Life Festival
6 October 2014 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
7 October 2014 Orillia Casino Rama
9 October 2014 Brooklyn United States Barclays Center
10 October 2014 Atlantic City Harrah's Atlantic City
11 October 2014 Mashantucket Grand Theater at Foxwoods Casino
14 October 2014 Lowell Tsongas Center
15 October 2014 Allentown PPL Center
17 October 2014 East Rutherford Izod Center
18 October 2014 Pittsburgh Petersen Events Center
19 October 2014 Detroit Fox Theatre
21 October 2014 Kansas City Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
22 October 2014 Evansville Ford Center
24 October 2014 Baltimore Pier Six Pavilion
25 October 2014 Portsmouth nTelos Wireless Pavilion
26 October 2014 Simpsonville Charter Amphitheatre at Heritage Park
28 October 2014 Duluth Arena at Gwinnett Center
29 October 2014 Orlando Hard Rock Live
30 October 2014 Hollywood Hard Rock Live
2 November 2014 Corpus Christi Concrete Street Amphitheater
4 November 2014 Laredo Laredo Energy Arena
6 November 2014 Allen Allen Event Center
7 November 2014 Austin Fun Fun Fun Fest
8 November 2014 El Paso Don Haskins Center
10 November 2014Los Angeles Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
12 November 2014 Glendale Jobing.com Arena
13 November 2014 Highland San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino
14 November 2014 Las Vegas Pearl Concert Theater
16 November 2014 San Jose City National Civic
18 November 2014 West Valley City Maverik Center
19 November 2014 Broomfield 1stBank Center
21 November 2014 Boise CenturyLink Arena
22 November 2014 Tacoma Tacoma Dome
Second leg
21 February 2015 Melbourne Australia Soundwave Festival
22 February 2015 Adelaide
24 February 2015 Sydney Enmore Theatre
26 February 2015 Brisbane Eatons Hill
28 February 2015Soundwave Festival
1 March 2015Sydney
3 March 2015 Auckland New ZealandWest Fest
6 March 2015TokyoJapanEx Theater
7 March 2015 Osaka Orix Theater
9 March 2015 Nagoya Assembly Hall
11 March 2015Tokyo Nippon Budokan
13 March 2015 Sapporo Zepp Sapporo
16 March 2015 Seoul South Korea AX Hall
Third leg
23 April 2015 Rio de Janeiro BrazilVivo Rio
25 April 2015 São Paulo Monsters of Rock
26 April 2015
28 April 2015 Curitiba
30 April 2015 Porto Alegre
2 May 2015 Buenos Aires Argentina
5 May 2015 Santiago Chile Movistar Arena
8 May 2015 Mexico City Mexico Palace of Sports
9 May 2015 Guadalajara Force Metal Fest
11 May 2015 Monterrey Auditorio Banamex
14 May 2015 Cedar Park United States Cedar Park Center
16 May 2015 Columbus Rock on the Range
17 May 2015 Cincinnati Horseshoe Cincinnati
19 May 2015 St. Charles Family Arena
20 May 2015 Council Bluffs Harrah's Casino
21 May 2015 Rosemont Rosemont Theatre
Fourth leg
30 May 2015 Munich GermanyRockavaria Festival
31 May 2015 Gelsenkirchen Rock im Revier Festival [1]
2 June 2015 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
4 June 2015 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Ice Hall
6 June 2015 Sölvesborg Sweden Sweden Rock Festival
8 June 2015 Hamburg Germany Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
9 June 2015Berlin Treptow Arena
12 June 2015 Donington Park England Download Festival
14 June 2015 Utrecht Netherlands TivoliVredenburg
16 June 2015 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal
17 June 2015ParisFrance Zénith de Paris
19 June 2015 Clisson Hellfest
20 June 2015 Dessel Belgium Graspop Metal Meeting
21 June 2015 Hinwil SwitzerlandRock The Ring Festival
23 June 2015 Milan Italy Forum di Assago
25 June 2015 Ostrava Czech Republic ČEZ Aréna
26 June 2015 Prague O2 Arena
27 June 2015 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena
29 June 2015 Belgrade Serbia Belgrade Calling Festival
30 June 2015 Sofia Bulgaria Arena Armeec
1 July 2015 Bucharest Romania Romexpo
4 July 2015 Athens Greece Rockwave Festival
11 July 2015 Biloxi United StatesHard Rock Biloxi Hotel & Casino
13 July 2015 Grand Prairie Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
15 July 2015 Sterling Heights Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
16 July 2015 Oshkosh RockUSA Festival
18 July 2015 Cadott Rock Fest
25 July 2015 Barcelona SpainRock Fest
26 July 2015 Madrid Auditorio Miguel Ríos De Rivas
29 July 2015 Székesfehérvár HungaryFezen Festival
30 July 2015 Graz AustriaSeerock Festival
1 August 2015 Wacken Germany Wacken Open Air
Fifth leg
16 October 2015 Paso Robles United StatesVina Robles Amphitheater
17 October 2015Las VegasPearl Concert Theater
20 October 2015San Francisco The Warfield Theater
23 October 2015 Fresno William Saroyan Theater
24 October 2015 San Bernardino San Manuel Amphitheater
27 October 2015 Vancouver Canada Hard Rock Casino
28 October 2015
31 October 2015 Regina Brandt Center
1 November 2015 Winnipeg MTS Center
3 November 2015 Peoria United States Peoria Civic Center
5 November 2015 Huntington Paramount Theater
6 November 2015
7 November 2015 Newark Prudential Center
10 November 2015 Halifax Canada Scotiabank Centre
12 November 2015 Toronto Air Canada Centre
17 November 2015 Tilburg Netherlands 013
18 November 2015 Frankfurt Germany Jahrhunderthalle
20 November 2015 Geneva Switzerland SEG Geneva Arena
23 November 2015 Bradford England St George's Hall
24 November 2015 Glasgow Scotland Barrowland Ballroom
26 November 2015 Wolverhampton England Wolverhampton Civic Hall
28 November 2015 Manchester O2 Apollo Manchester
30 November 2015 Portsmouth Guildhall
1 December 2015London Brixton Academy
4 December 2015 Karlstad Sweden Lofbergs Arena
5 December 2015 Stockholm Ericsson Globe
7 December 2015 Tallinn Estonia Saku Arena
8 December 2015 Vilnius Lithuania Siemens Arena
10 December 2015 Gdańsk Poland Ergo Arena
12 December 2015 Brno Czech Republic Rondo Arena
14 December 2015 Stuttgart Germany Schleyerhalle
16 December 2015 Brussels Belgium Vorst Nationaal
17 December 2015 Oberhausen Germany König-Pilsener-Arena

Box office score data

VenueCityTickets sold / availableGross revenue [2]
Bell CentreMontreal2,556 / 3,080 (83%)$154,141
Barclays CenterBrooklyn4,258 / 5,708 (75%)$321,231
Pier Six PavilionBaltimore4,138 / 4,140 (99%)$256,320
Arena at Gwinnett CenterDuluth3,014 / 5,244 (57%)$148,074
Hard Rock LiveOrlando2,024 / 2,886 (70%)$113,911
Laredo Energy ArenaLaredo1,577 / 5,290 (30%)$78,281
NOKIA TheatreLos Angeles6,255 / 6,255 (100%)$385,953
City National CivicSan Jose3,067 / 3,305 (93%)$185,160
Maverik CenterWest Valley City2,667 / 4,807 (55%)$138,148
Vivo RioRio de Janeiro1,768 / 4,000 (44%)$93,270
Movistar ArenaSantiago11,886 / 12,000 (99%)$492,727
Palacio de los DeportesMexico City10,541 / 13,056 (81%)$404,524
Auditorio BanamexMonterrey3,812 / 4,222 (90%)$130,048
Horseshoe CasinoCincinnati2,940 / 4,056 (72%)$117,450
Harrah's Stir Concert CoveCouncil Bluffs2,461 / 4,000 (61%)$106,100
Vina Robles AmphitheatrePaso Robles1,483 / 3,018 (49%)$82,030
Paramount TheaterHuntington3,160 / 3,160 (100%)$299,689
Vorst NationaalBrussels2,309 / 3,000 (77%)$126,247
William Saroyan TheatreFresno1,478 / 2,339 (63%)$113,740

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References

  1. ↑ "Judas Priest Setlist at Rock im Revier 2015". setlist.fm. Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  2. ↑ Box score:
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