Last night, January 28, Judas Priest kicked off a new European leg on their ongoing Firepower tour at Le Zenith in Paris. They marked the occasion by pulling out a deep cut, “Killing Machine,” the title track to their 1978 fifth studio album (the effort was renamed Hell Bent for Leather in the U.S.). The rendition was the band’s first performance of the song in 40 years.
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