Heavy Metal Veterans Kick Off Faithkeepers Tour: What Awaits Us in Pula and Belgrade
Judas Priest played 17 songs at a German festival, and the home audience will soon experience the same spectacle.
Judas Priest played 17 songs at a German festival, and the home audience will soon experience the same spectacle.
Judas Priest opened their worldwide "Faithkeepers" tour on Saturday at Germany's BOBfest in Mönchengladbach, reports Muzika.hr. Frontman Rob Halford made it clear that age is no barrier, with a 17-song set spanning from 1976 classics to their latest material.
The band performed seventeen studio classics at the opening, including two forgotten gems from the seventies, The Ripper and Delivering the Goods, for the first time since 2019. Half of the set was drawn from the eighties, with albums like Screaming for Vengeance and British Steel, while alongside hits from 2024 ("Panic Attack"), they also played Victim of Changes from 1976.
Complete setlist in Mönchengladbach:
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Metal Gods
Breaking the Law
The Ripper
The Sentinel
Desert Plains
Lightning Strikes
Turbo Lover
Steeler
Delivering the Goods
Panic Attack
Victim of Changes
Halls of Valhalla
Painkiller
Electric Eye
Hell Bent for Leather
Living After Midnight
According to Muzika.hr, Priest are known for keeping their setlist nearly unchanged throughout a tour, so audiences in Pula and Belgrade will likely hear this very cross-section of their career.
After more than twenty years, Judas Priest return to the Croatian audience on August 25, 2026, at the Pula Arena. The concert starts at 8 PM, and tickets are on sale ranging from €61 to €120. Opening for them in Pula will be Jelusick, a band gathered around vocalist Dino Jelusić, who also has his own concert in Bulgaria on August 29.
An additional symbolic note for the evening: on the very day of the Pula performance, Rob Halford celebrates his 75th birthday.
The concert in Belgrade will be held outdoors on August 28, 2026, in Ušće Park. Interest is enormous; according to Muzika.hr, within the first thirty minutes of sales, more than a thousand people secured tickets. Unlike Pula, the opening act for the Belgrade show has yet to be confirmed.
The album Invincible Shield, their nineteenth studio album from March 2024, showed that the band is not in a farewell phase. A set that blends Painkiller, Panic Attack, and Victim of Changes is both a reminder of a career spanning half a century and proof that Judas Priest still delivers full force. For the home audience, the evening will be further heated up by Jelusick on the very stage of the Arena.
