Former Judas Priest guitarist Okay.Okay. Downing has shared a video message by way of Instagram, through which he celebrates the 40th anniversary of the band’s Defenders Of The Faith album, saying “I bear in mind it nicely. I feel that is in all probability one in all my favorite albums. We have on right here ‘Freewheel Burning’, ‘Jawbreaker’, ‘Rock Onerous, Journey Free’, ‘The Sentinel’, and it goes on. Yeah, killer first 4 tracks, actually full-on metallic.”

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Defenders Of The Faith is Judas Priest’s ninth studio album, launched in January 1984. It was licensed platinum by the RIAA and spawned the singles “Freewheel Burning”, “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”, and “Love Bites”.