Spent most of my life knowing nothing but pop music, rap, and pop country due to my circumstances. Felt robbed when I discovered this type of metal in my 20's.
Same here although my friends helped out with that back when I was about 16. My father loved Beach Boys too much and there was a lot in common with them and the boy bands of the early 00's, although I have to give him credit for introducing me to Black Sabbath.
This album is one of my favorites of Judas Priest, and not only because it was their first album that I heard back when I started listening to Metal in 85! So many good songs in it! I like the production as well. Not so much the drums. Just imagine if Scott Travis played on it... Holland made a good work, but Travis is on another level! Greetings from Italy!
One of my first Metal Albums, and here I am, 48 years old, and still rocking hard and riding free. Immortal song, how could you even think to dislike it?
I TURNED 50 YEARS OLD, MY SECOND JUDAS ALBUM( my first was screaming for vengeance). BUT Defenders of the Faith is MY FAVOURITE JUDAS LP. My favourite Judas Priest albums: 1. Defenders of the Faith 2. Stained Class 3. Sad Wings of Destiny 4.Screaming for Vengeance 🤘💎🤘 Fábio Olmos from Brazil.
same for me, the prelude is like the low point of your life, depressing. Throughout the song you can feel the ups and downs via the guitar solos which is amazing, and it just cheers you up to rock hard and do what you want, be a free soul!
[LOVERS COMMENT only for humans] Does anybody care about your shameless begging for human play? Even koreans even don't want to have a contact with you beggar from choongcheong province.
Everyone here knows your human shaped concussion mechanism hardware less than a bug only has a habit of having concussion of 'report deletion' and disgusting calculated "human agony" action.
[Reaction to your shameless 'unreporting begging'♡] Is there any words except "I stuck back your undeserving begging into your mouth" which cause you things' shameless concussion of 'report deletion' in just a few second??
[Social Mockery] "Big Data", the most ambitious and romantic word for you beggar things disdained even in korean province, reveals if I use the word "korean "things"", your undeserving begging of "altruistic patriotism play" activates with some "delicate desperation" act♡♡
[Social Cleaning required Right After the comment above] so after my comment, did your begging 'algorithm' less than a bug order you to switch your acting from "avoidance as if just" to "parasite asking for sympathy pretending human agony?"
Grande!!!Judas Priest!!!El primer álbum que escuché y me cautivó!!!Mi inicio con la banda!!Desde entonces fiel seguidor, de una de las bandas que en mí opinión marcó una época,siguen en su línea a pesar de los cambios musicales actuales!!!😊
It's good to realized I was not alone and actually I'm not alone by liking this song . Es bueno saber que no estaba solo y actualmente no estoy solo por gustarme esta canción . Judas Priest forever .
Was in high school when this album came out, living outside Toronto which was a metal haven at the time. Friends and I would play this album constantly. Still love going back to it.
La mejor banda de metal del mundo!!! Este es un discazo!!! Un tema mejor que el otro!!!!Majestuosas las violas y los agudos de Halford de otro planeta!!!!
Con 6 añitos ya escuchaba yo el the defender para mí el mejor lp de judas, todavía se me ponen los pelos de punta escuchandolo, es una obra maestra este disco, heavy metal en su puro estado. Para mi el mejor grupo y disco de heavy metal de la historia
Escucho esto 10 veces por día. los solos y partes de guitarras son de los mejores de la historia del metal/rock .ya no se existe música así . Es poco conocida y poco valorada , debería tener al menos 100 millones de vistas .
I've been listening to this one for around 18 years now, and it amazes me how underrated it is. This should be one of the top hits of Judas Priest, alongside Ram It Down and Breaking The Law.
@@s1nnocense Yes, but every song on earth is called "underrated" by somebody on TH-cam if it's been ten minutes or more since they heard someone mention it.
Saw this tour at Madison Square Garden. 4th of July weekend. Words can't explain the mayhem. Best concert I've ever seen yet. It was completely insane. 200k in damages. Great times.
Lyrics: Get a grip on the action Movin' heaven and earth You gotta get a reaction Push for all that you're worth No denying, we're going against the grain So defiant, but they'll never put us down Rock hard, ride free All day, all night Rock hard, ride free All your life Tough as steel, stop at nothing Look at fate in the face Don't take no for an answer, yeah Grab the lead in the race No denying, we're going against the grain So defiant, but they'll never put us down Spit it out Rock hard, ride free All day, all night Rock hard, ride free All your life Rock hard with a purpose Got a mind that won't bend Die hard resolution That is true to the end No denying, we're going against the grain Because it's so defiant Everybody scream it again Rock hard, ride free All day, all night Rock hard, ride free All your life Rock hard, ride free All day, all night Rock hard, ride free All your life Rock hard, ride free All day, all night Rock hard, ride free All your life
@@mitch5699 Judas Priest outlasted Grunge by a long way. Yeah Nevermind was excellent, but Priest never went away. Grunge tried to kill Metal. And failed miserably.
@@lonestar6709 oh yeah , what I meant is, when "Nevermind " hit the scene major rock acts like "Motley Crue " for example felt the impact of grunge 'ticket sales' in the US anyway, one day playing 20,000 seat arena , the next playin in a bar , if you weren't Iron Maiden , Judas Priest , or the Scorpions for example, it was back to the bar , I saw it happen, was part of it ...
@Armando Olvera that sucking yer talkin about , thats yer knowledge of how and where metal was first created and who it was first created by , sucks ! ..that'd be you bud...now go on , there's plenty of content on yt more yer speed ....boy George has a channel
This, to me, is Judas Priest in essence. Everything great about them on show in one track. All my life... And I have been a fan since 1975. Rock hard, ride free - all my life.
I am on a Judas Priest kick revisiting all of my old favorite Priest songs. I've come to the conclusion that this is my favorite song out of all of them. It's so symmetrical with the versus, bridge, and chorus it's #1.
Best song on the album. It was always perplexing to me as to why they didn't market this song more. Get it on radio. All I heard on the radio back then was Some Heads & Freewheel
Wiecie co, aż boję się opisać. To mój album nr#1 metal wszechczasów. Mnie kojarzy nie z zimą. Pamiętam, to było chyba w 1985, stojąc z kaseciakiem na maleńkim oczku wodnym, zamarzniętym, zaczęło pękać i wpadłem po kolana do wody . Był mróz, ale muza grała, bo magnetofon był w górze. Piękne czasy, wtedy każda płyta miała klimat, smak, barwę. Kocham Judasa, a tą płytę kocham najbardziej. No, jeszcze Unleashed....echh, czasy piękne. Dzisiaj mam 53 lata, i właśnie leci Defenders .... . Mam takiego znajomego na giełdzie, sprzedaję cd. Powiedział mi, wiesz wielu kolesi przestało przychodzić, muza już ich nie obchodzi, a ty przychodzisz, jako jeden a niewielu. Dlaczego? Bo kocham muzykę, a metal to moja kochanka.
Я никогда не слушал ни рок, ни металл, но однажды услышал эту тему в машине у напарника по работе ,металлиста, я сразу обратил внимание на только эту тему, и снова скачал спустя 2 года, надоедает одна песня быстро, в сборник добавлю снова) шедевр
I saw this tour in July at the Cow Palace(Daly City), 1984 was an awesome year!!!! Also saw Rush, Grace under Pressure Tour, in May. Also at theCow Palace. Also in May of 1984 was Scorpions Love at First Sting, at the Cow Palace.Then there was Iron Maiden, for the Power Slave Tour(World Slavery Tour )in March of '85. Also, at the Cow Palace. Those were the greatest days of my youth!!!! I yearn to go back in time and see these GIFTED MUSICIANS again. Who wants to go with me?
Cara, esse disco embalou minha adolescência no finalzinho dos anos 80 início anos 90 e foi a porta de abertura pra eu buscar mais desta incrível banda, naquela época não tinhamos a facilidade da internet como hoje, tinhamos que ir em galerias de Rock, ou conseguir emprestado com amigo!
The sparkomatic speaker commercial had them in it doing this song too! I remember when that showed up on tv and flipping out like no way!! Then trying to catch it when it came on again to tape it on VHS so I could have a copy of it when I was 14/15. Great album and solid track!
Dude, this album has one of the most epic intros of Priest, Love You Priest for upload this, Keep on Rocking!!!, PD: The day you will put Run of the Mill official Audio here I'll jump of happiness like I never did!!
I went in 84' for this tour & Halford was at his best. JP today should be called '"Halford & Friends" I'm following KK with his band. I love KK & HAVE since 83"
Está música simboliza a luta pela vida do homem livre, com a confiança de fazer o que deseja e não deseja, e do amor genuíno que rompe os grilhões de homem incapacitado de lutar pelos seus sonhos. Homem livre ..
Spent most of my life knowing nothing but pop music, rap, and pop country due to my circumstances. Felt robbed when I discovered this type of metal in my 20's.
With a little bit of planning and a little bit of luck, that just means you'll have had about 50 years or more to listen to it by the time you croak.
Same here although my friends helped out with that back when I was about 16. My father loved Beach Boys too much and there was a lot in common with them and the boy bands of the early 00's, although I have to give him credit for introducing me to Black Sabbath.
Welcome brother.
This is just scratching the surface of what you’ve missed my man.
Better late than never boy!
One of the many gems from Defenders Of The Faith.
One of rte manygems from Defenders of the fais
2:35 best solo ever!!!!!
Yes
This album is one of my favorites of Judas Priest, and not only because it was their first album that I heard back when I started listening to Metal in 85! So many good songs in it! I like the production as well. Not so much the drums. Just imagine if Scott Travis played on it... Holland made a good work, but Travis is on another level!
Greetings from Italy!
Listen to fight for your life from hell bent for leather
Poor Glenn having to deal with Parkinson’s. My heart goes to this brilliant axe slinger.
One of my first Metal Albums, and here I am, 48 years old, and still rocking hard and riding free.
Immortal song, how could you even think to dislike it?
Just turned 49
Very 1st cassette I ever had
@@jeromegarcia6697 hey bro, same here, the 21st April ;)
@@alextozzi8619 yesterday
I TURNED 50 YEARS OLD, MY SECOND JUDAS ALBUM( my first was screaming for vengeance). BUT Defenders of the Faith is MY FAVOURITE JUDAS LP.
My favourite Judas Priest albums:
1. Defenders of the Faith
2. Stained Class
3. Sad Wings of Destiny
4.Screaming for Vengeance
🤘💎🤘
Fábio Olmos from Brazil.
I don't like it. Just kidding; got this album for Xmas when I was 12 yrs. old. 🙂
One of the best songs in metal
Glen Tipton is truly a maestro on the Axe, so so many GREAT riffs!
They both are ! KK AND GLEN!
KK actually does most of the lead and the solo on this song
It's half and half, KK does the beginning and Glen the 2nd half. @@lordtalo2062
Don't forget about KK
This is one of THE greatest pump-up anthemic hard rock songs of all time. It simply stomps most other songs into the ground! DIG ITTTTT!!!!!!!!
It's one of the most important songs in my life.
Why?
It's difficult to express, but when I was tired, I got power from this song.
same for me, the prelude is like the low point of your life, depressing. Throughout the song you can feel the ups and downs via the guitar solos which is amazing, and it just cheers you up to rock hard and do what you want, be a free soul!
Well put !
Please play it at my funeral
Such a great album. Every song kicks ass. I saw them live on this tour back in 1984. Epic. One for the ages.
I saw them live in 1990 in Italy
Classic album, the chorus and solo still gives me chills to this day... 36years later!!
This is one of few songs or any piece of art that can give me chills every time. Such a great song.
Defenders of the faith IMO is the best Priest album . Every song is awesome
My favorite song of Judas
[LOVERS COMMENT only for humans]
Does anybody care about your shameless begging for human play? Even koreans even don't want to have a contact with you beggar from choongcheong province.
Everyone here knows your human shaped concussion mechanism hardware less than a bug only has a habit of having concussion of 'report deletion' and disgusting calculated "human agony" action.
[Reaction to your shameless 'unreporting begging'♡] Is there any words except "I stuck back your undeserving begging into your mouth" which cause you things' shameless concussion of 'report deletion' in just a few second??
[Social Mockery] "Big Data", the most ambitious and romantic word for you beggar things disdained even in korean province, reveals if I use the word "korean "things"", your undeserving begging of "altruistic patriotism play" activates with some "delicate desperation" act♡♡
[Social Cleaning required Right After the comment above] so after my comment, did your begging 'algorithm' less than a bug order you to switch your acting from "avoidance as if just" to "parasite asking for sympathy pretending human agony?"
What a guitar solo and what a song!!
That's 80s...
Absolutely!!!
The Flag Of Heavy Metal! The Best Metal Song Of All Time, from the Best Album Of All Time! Perfection!
Best song on one of the very best Judas Priest albums.
Life is just better when there is music like this
You said some real shit right there , the 80s stomped ass didn't they...
Yeaahhhhhhh Friend!!!!!
Top 3 Best Judas Priest albums ever in my opinion! Countless memories listening to this one!!
Grande!!!Judas Priest!!!El primer álbum que escuché y me cautivó!!!Mi inicio con la banda!!Desde entonces fiel seguidor, de una de las bandas que en mí opinión marcó una época,siguen en su línea a pesar de los cambios musicales actuales!!!😊
The solo is amazing
Rock Hard Ride Free has got to be one of the best lines ever!
They got rid of fight for your life, fight for your money. It was a great upgrade.
That classic Priest sound never gets old 👍👍👍
Masterpiece!!!
It's good to realized I was not alone and actually I'm not alone by liking this song . Es bueno saber que no estaba solo y actualmente no estoy solo por gustarme esta canción . Judas Priest forever .
Who doesn't like it?
This is an awesome song, you are certainly not alone
@@thediesel387 Good question my friend, congratulations!!🌸🌸🌸👍👍👍👊👊👊
Was in high school when this album came out, living outside Toronto which was a metal haven at the time. Friends and I would play this album constantly. Still love going back to it.
Hearing this live was a high I'm gonna be chasing for the rest of my life.
La mejor banda de metal del mundo!!! Este es un discazo!!! Un tema mejor que el otro!!!!Majestuosas las violas y los agudos de Halford de otro planeta!!!!
Totalmente! Mi papá me hizo escuchar Judas priest y ni hablar! Son los mejores!
Con 6 añitos ya escuchaba yo el the defender para mí el mejor lp de judas, todavía se me ponen los pelos de punta escuchandolo, es una obra maestra este disco, heavy metal en su puro estado. Para mi el mejor grupo y disco de heavy metal de la historia
Escucho esto 10 veces por día. los solos y partes de guitarras son de los mejores de la historia del metal/rock .ya no se existe música así . Es poco conocida y poco valorada , debería tener al menos 100 millones de vistas .
I've been listening to this one for around 18 years now, and it amazes me how underrated it is. This should be one of the top hits of Judas Priest, alongside Ram It Down and Breaking The Law.
It kinda is tho. Absolute staple on every club night here.
@@s1nnocense Yes, but every song on earth is called "underrated" by somebody on TH-cam if it's been ten minutes or more since they heard someone mention it.
Oh man !!! It was so good to be a metal head back in the '80's , ..I shit you not ....
These vocals and all the rest are excellent !! The arrangement of this song is incredible !! Salute to the Metal Gods !!
Saw this tour at Madison Square Garden. 4th of July weekend. Words can't explain the mayhem. Best concert I've ever seen yet. It was completely insane. 200k in damages. Great times.
Lyrics:
Get a grip on the action
Movin' heaven and earth
You gotta get a reaction
Push for all that you're worth
No denying, we're going against the grain
So defiant, but they'll never put us down
Rock hard, ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard, ride free
All your life
Tough as steel, stop at nothing
Look at fate in the face
Don't take no for an answer, yeah
Grab the lead in the race
No denying, we're going against the grain
So defiant, but they'll never put us down
Spit it out
Rock hard, ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard, ride free
All your life
Rock hard with a purpose
Got a mind that won't bend
Die hard resolution
That is true to the end
No denying, we're going against the grain
Because it's so defiant
Everybody scream it again
Rock hard, ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard, ride free
All your life
Rock hard, ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard, ride free
All your life
Rock hard, ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard, ride free
All your life
Rob wants it from you,bad
Thousand (00:35)?
Tears in my eyes. Such a powerful song.
Great melodic solo from KK Downing
KK n Glen best twin guitar
I met Downey once.
Best Heavy Metal Anthem
Rock and roll is a HUGE part of my life I love it!!!!!
This whole album. Every song in this album is a HIT not one misses GotDamn.. 🤟🏽🤟🏽
my favourite Judas song
timeless masterpiece!!!
Любимый альбом, шедевр за шедевром, никогда не надоест его слушать!
Why does this have dislikes?
This is frickin awsome🤟
Ahh the amazing '80's ..think I'm stuck there
@@mitch5699 Judas Priest outlasted Grunge by a long way.
Yeah Nevermind was excellent, but Priest never went away. Grunge tried to kill Metal.
And failed miserably.
@@lonestar6709 oh yeah , what I meant is, when "Nevermind " hit the scene major rock acts like "Motley Crue " for example felt the impact of grunge 'ticket sales' in the US anyway, one day playing 20,000 seat arena , the next playin in a bar , if you weren't Iron Maiden , Judas Priest , or the Scorpions for example, it was back to the bar , I saw it happen, was part of it ...
@Armando Olvera that sucking yer talkin about , thats yer knowledge of how and where metal was first created and who it was first created by , sucks ! ..that'd be you bud...now go on , there's plenty of content on yt more yer speed ....boy George has a channel
@Armando Olvera oh shit dude !! Forgive me bro ,I take back that shit I said, careful how you word stuff bro , had me all upset lol.
That intro solo man wow.... very few solo hit me like that
A Heavy Metal anthem!!🤘🤘
This, to me, is Judas Priest in essence. Everything great about them on show in one track. All my life... And I have been a fan since 1975. Rock hard, ride free - all my life.
The title describes the ideal lifestyle of any rocker. We continue with Rockin' in the Free World and the circle is complete. Let's rock !
In my view.. It s their best album I've ever heard.. Don't you agree?. 😊💯💪🎤🎼🥁🎸👌
Grande Judas
Впервые услышал эту тему в 1992 - с тех пор не отпускает!! Шедевр.
I am on a Judas Priest kick revisiting all of my old favorite Priest songs. I've come to the conclusion that this is my favorite song out of all of them. It's so symmetrical with the versus, bridge, and chorus it's #1.
Now that's a song I wouldn't mind being stuck in my head when I'm going for a long run on my HARLEY !!!! LOL 😆
Long love te highway
This song contains I love about metal. A perfect entry song for anybody that hasn't tried metal yet.🤘
Rob Halford: the best voice of hard rock and heavy metal!
Rock Hard, Ride Free forever!🖤🤘🏿🖤
Best song on the album. It was always perplexing to me as to why they didn't market this song more. Get it on radio. All I heard on the radio back then was Some Heads & Freewheel
for real. this was clearly a hit song
Stupid management probably.
Their career seems littered with odd desicions. According to Downing, SFV has sold 2.5 million copies.
That's a joke....
Pure rock, pure heavy!!!
Rock hard ride free
All day, all night
Rock hard ride free
All your life 🤘🤘🤘
And Priest....Lives on...
Great opening solo, then the twin guitars!
THIS WILL BE ON MY TOMESTONE!!!
This is some great metal music. I love this band btw.
Happy Birthday Ian Hill,bass player of Judas Priest,born January 20th 1951,West Bromwich,UK,fonder of the great Judas Priest
kk downing is the founder of judas priest. It was him, then ian, then tipton then halford.
Heavy metal in its finest
Piece of art directly from the metal gods for us, simple humans!
Wiecie co, aż boję się opisać. To mój album nr#1 metal wszechczasów. Mnie kojarzy nie z zimą. Pamiętam, to było chyba w 1985, stojąc z kaseciakiem na maleńkim oczku wodnym, zamarzniętym, zaczęło pękać i wpadłem po kolana do wody . Był mróz, ale muza grała, bo magnetofon był w górze. Piękne czasy, wtedy każda płyta miała klimat, smak, barwę. Kocham Judasa, a tą płytę kocham najbardziej. No, jeszcze Unleashed....echh, czasy piękne. Dzisiaj mam 53 lata, i właśnie leci Defenders .... . Mam takiego znajomego na giełdzie, sprzedaję cd. Powiedział mi, wiesz wielu kolesi przestało przychodzić, muza już ich nie obchodzi, a ty przychodzisz, jako jeden a niewielu. Dlaczego? Bo kocham muzykę, a metal to moja kochanka.
This song will echo in eternity..
Judas Priest a legendary group with songs like this will live forever and ever
Long live to heavy metal
Great song by the metal technicians. Let’s not forget legends too!
The Greatest Heavy Metal Hymn Ever!
Simplemente los DIOSES DEL METAL!! No hay palabras para decir lo grande que es JUDAS PRIEST
Así es hermano
Got this totally stucked in my head. What a tune.
One of their best Songs ever.
Я никогда не слушал ни рок, ни металл, но однажды услышал эту тему в машине у напарника по работе ,металлиста, я сразу обратил внимание на только эту тему, и снова скачал спустя 2 года, надоедает одна песня быстро, в сборник добавлю снова) шедевр
If every country were to come together to vote for a heavy metal ANTHEM, this song would be the lone delegate...and, the winner!
I love many kinds of music,but when it comes to Heavy Metalbands Judas Priest is my absolute Number One🔝🔝This is such a brilliant song🤘
I saw this tour in July at the Cow Palace(Daly City), 1984 was an awesome year!!!! Also saw Rush, Grace under Pressure Tour, in May. Also at theCow Palace. Also in May of 1984 was Scorpions Love at First Sting, at the Cow Palace.Then there was Iron Maiden, for the Power Slave Tour(World Slavery Tour )in March of '85. Also, at the Cow Palace. Those were the greatest days of my youth!!!! I yearn to go back in time and see these GIFTED MUSICIANS again. Who wants to go with me?
I’m 312 years old and I love this song.
Solo lindo pra caramba... essa é uma das músicas que mais ouvi na vida... minha preferida do Judas!
Cara, esse disco embalou minha adolescência no finalzinho dos anos 80 início anos 90 e foi a porta de abertura pra eu buscar mais desta incrível banda, naquela época não tinhamos a facilidade da internet como hoje, tinhamos que ir em galerias de Rock, ou conseguir emprestado com amigo!
J. Zander esse solo é demais.
@@Santiago-qm6di pura verdade!
Yeaahhhhhhh
The sparkomatic speaker commercial had them in it doing this song too! I remember when that showed up on tv and flipping out like no way!! Then trying to catch it when it came on again to tape it on VHS so I could have a copy of it when I was 14/15. Great album and solid track!
Excellent track so fricking good. 🤘😎🤘
this is song is the only one. top of the metal. top of the rock. top of the insanity.
The best music from Defenders of the Faith in my opinion 🤘
Dude, this album has one of the most epic intros of Priest, Love You Priest for upload this, Keep on Rocking!!!,
PD: The day you will put Run of the Mill official Audio here I'll jump of happiness like I never did!!
Judas Priest to solidni rzemieślnicy,jeśli chodzi o metal.
This is an ANTHEM for us METAL HEADS!!!
Words to live by🤘
Siempre escucha buena música amiga
one of my absolute fav Priest songs. When we were making up a set list I said we have to do Rock Hard Ride Free. It's such an awesome song.
🖤🖤💥💥I love this majestic song, it says it all for those of us who love rock and heavy🔊🔊🔊🔊🎶🎶🎶🎶
Najlepszy zespół heavy metalowy świata.
True.
The bass player❤
Still listening to this since 84, Rob Halford is my rock hero
Amazing song by JP. One of my fave!
I went in 84' for this tour & Halford was at his best. JP today should be called '"Halford & Friends" I'm following KK with his band. I love KK & HAVE since 83"
Toujours des riffs exceptionnels, jamais le même solo. Le PRIEST écrasé TOUT
Judas Priest to solidni rzemieślnicy.Jeśli chodzi o granie muzyki heavy metalowej.
Buenos tiempos para el rockandroll ❤🎉😮😅😊
THE best rhythm guitar breakdown ever. ❤️🔥😤
CLASSIC
Best album 👍👍👍👍👍
Está música simboliza a luta pela vida do homem livre, com a confiança de fazer o que deseja e não deseja, e do amor genuíno que rompe os grilhões de homem incapacitado de lutar pelos seus sonhos. Homem livre ..
You babies the metal of this genre is the best