Brummie metal veterans Judas Priest have chosen songs not previously released in live album form for their next in-concert set, A Touch Of Evil: Live. But, hey… ‘not previously released in live album form’? Hmm, we here at Classic Rock might just know otherwise…

A Touch Of Evil: Live is due for release on July 14, in the midst of Priest’s US summer tour with Whitesnake.

The track listing includes:

Hellrider (from Angel of Retribution, the 2004 reunion album with frontman Rob Halford); Between The Hammer And The Anvil (from Painkiller); Riding On The Wind (from Screaming For Vengeance); Death (from Priest’s most recent studio album, Nostradamus); Beyond The Realms Of Death (from Stained Class); Dissident Aggressor (from Sin After Sin); Eat Me Alive (from Defenders Of The Faith); Prophecy (from Nostradamus); and Painkiller (from the album of the same name).

“I love those songs,” Halford told Billboard.com. “All of those songs just crush. Because they’ve never been recorded live in this way, it’s just something fresh to put out.

“And when you listen to it and think this band has been around for three decades, with a combined age of 250-something years… I mean, how cool is that?

“It’s a very fierce record and just captures the band’s attitude and feeling in a very strong, determined way.”

Halford continued: “I mean, we could’ve put Living After Midnight or You’ve Got Another Thing Coming out – again. But why? This is just something great to give our fans.”

Which is all well and good. But Classic Rock’s trainspotter department is forced to point out that a couple of the tracks mentioned above have in fact been on a Priest live album before.

Beyond The Realms Of Death and Painkiller were both included on the band’s ’98 Live Meltdown CD. (But as that album featured Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens on vocals, Priest probably reckon they don’t count…)

Oh yeah, and we wouldn’t dare mention the additional track duplication on Priest’s Live In London CD that came out in 2003…