I wasn’t going to pay $15-25 for parking and then get stuck waiting in the lot to get out after the show. I took the train there and walked about 15 minutes to the building. The venue apparently can seat 4,400 people. The theatre’s website had an interactive live view where you can check out seats. Priest had played at the Rosemont Theatre a few years earlier in May 2015 with Saxon. I really like the newer Judas Priest albums like “Angel of Retribution” (2005), “Nostradamus” (2008), “Redeemer of Souls” (2014) and most recently “Firepower.” I was listening to them a lot lately leading up to the show. Scott Travis is still on drums, who has been with the band since his debut on 1990’s “Painkiller” album.

Ian Hill, who is 67 and a co-founder of the band, is on bass. Faulkner is a great guitarist and has cool energy live. Downing who left Judas Priest on negative terms. Richie Faulkner has been with the band since 2011, replacing K.K. Andy Sneap, who produces for a lot of metal bands and also played with Sabbat, goes on tour with Priest filling in for Tipton. Tipton helped write the songs on Firepower.

He stopped touring in 2018 but is still an official member of the band. They’re playing shows with a fill-in guitarist for Glenn Tipton, who has Parkinson’s disease. While still pretty great in person, Judas Priest is obviously the better live band over Deep Purple. I felt like Judas Priest should have headlined and played longer over Deep Purple. I was right up in the front row and it was an amazing show.

I saw them last August at the outdoor Hollywood Casino Ampitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois. Priest is one of my all-time favorite bands. I snoozed on getting tickets earlier so I bought mine on StubHub the night before the show. The metal gods are still on tour for the band’s 18th studio album “Firepower” that released in March 2018.

Judas Priest returned to the Rosemont Theatre in continued support of their latest album.

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