Judas Priest guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner recently spoke with Guitar World about their new live release, Battle Cry. Following is an excerpt from the interview.

Q: When you went into to do the Wacken show, were you planning to do a DVD or did the footage dictate that it should be released?

Faulkner: "We were aware it was being filmed. We weren’t aware of how it was going to turn out, obviously. Wacken films the headliners, if not most of the bands. When the footage became available and we saw it, we thought it was a no-brainer. We saw the production, the crowd, the energy and we thought it would be a great thing to put out. We thought it was a great performance to give to Tom Allen and mix properly and put out to the fans around the world."

Q: Does it make it more interesting to you as a player to play some of the new material?

Tipton: "It is and particularly this time with 'Halls of Valhalla', 'Dragonaut', 'March of the Damned' and sometimes four or five songs off of the new album. It’s a lot, really. The kids want to hear their old favorites and they may not be that familiar with the new stuff at that point in time. Everyone asks us if we get fed up playing 'Another Thing Coming', 'Hell Bent for Leather' or 'Living After Midnight' and the fact is that the kids want to hear them. As soon as you strike them up in front of an audience it is like the first time you ever played it. It’s so enjoyable and the audience is singing along. Our concerts are a union with Judas Priest and the audience. When we play numbers that fans can sing along with the atmosphere is so electrifying that you never get fed up with these songs."

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On March 25th, Judas Priest will release Battle Cry. Recorded live on August 1st, 2015 at Germany's Wacken Festival in front of an audience of 85,000 people, Battle Cry is available on a 15-track CD, with the entire show on Blu-Ray and DVD (running over 94 minutes), as well as digital audio and video formats. The DVD and Blu-Ray also contains three bonus tracks shot in Poland on December 10th, 2015 at The Ergo Arena in Gdansk.

Check out “Halls Of Valhalla” from the upcoming release, streaming below:

"The Priest is back! Bringing you molten metal mayhem captured live, we're coming at you in full force on Battle Cry. This is Priest burning up and delivering the goods for all our metalheads around the world like never before - so hold tight and turn it up as we roar you through a night of screaming heavy-metal magic keeping the faith alive!"

Battle Cry CD sequence:

“(Intro) Battle Cry”
“Dragonaut”
“Metal Gods”
“Devil’s Child”
“Victim Of Changes”
“Halls Of Valhalla”
“Redeemer Of Souls”
“Beyond The Realms Of Death”
“Jawbreaker”
“Breaking The Law”
“Hell Bent For Leather”
“The Hellion”
“Electric Eye”
“You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”
“Painkiller”

Battle Cry DVD / Blu-Ray sequence:

“(Intro) Battle Cry”
“Dragonaut”
“Metal Gods”
“Devil’s Child”
“Victim Of Changes”
“Halls Of Valhalla”
“Redeemer Of Souls”
“Beyond The Realms Of Death”
“Jawbreaker”
“Breaking The Law”
“Hell Bent For Leather”
“The Hellion”
“Electric Eye”
“You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”
“Painkiller”
“Living After Midnight”

Bonus tracks:

“Screaming For Vengeance”
“The Rage”
“Desert Plains”

"The Hellion" / "Electric Eye“:

"Breaking The Law”:

“Metal Gods“: