Priest Feast Roundup & Review

After hyping the gig on this website, I thought it was only fair to do a quick run down of how the show went.

The day began in somewhat hungover fashion, having had the first part of my stag do the night before (more on this in another post soon). After seeing Steve out, I collapsed back to bed until approximately 1pm where I felt well enough to get up. I thus dressed in appropriate attire of Megadeth shirt and headed for Wembley.

Testament kicked off Priest Feast and were excellent, with a good selection of old and new tracks (D.N.R being particularly awesome), they didn't play my favourite (Disciples of the Watch) but they played that at Download so you can't have everything.

Megadeth were up next and Mustaine and co had 10,000+ in Wembley Arena in the palm of their hand from the word go, prompting a furious response to the likes of Hangar 18, She Wolf, and particularly In My Darkest Hour. Combined with a finishing 1..2 punch of Peace Sells and Holy Wars, I think almost everyone in the crowd would have gone home happy at that point and we hadn't even had the main event yet!

Judas Priest were their classic selves, offering a range of songs from the classics Defenders of the Faith, Screaming For Vengeance and Painkiller amongst others, as well as some tracks from the brand new Nostradamus. Best tracks of the night had to The Hellion/Electic Eye, Painkiller, and Rock Hard Ride Free. They were very, very good, but I think they were outshone slightly by Megadeth, who put on probably the best performance I have ever seen from them (having seen them 6 or 7 times before), but a wonderful gig at a packed Wembley Arena on a cold February evening!