Editing Unleashed in the East (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Unleashed in the East
| type       = Live
| artist     = [[Judas Priest]]
| cover      = Jpunleashedintheeast.JPG
| alt        =
| released   = 21 September 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-09-22-S-OCR.pdf|title=Music Week|page=30}}</ref>
| recorded   = 10, 15 February 1979
| venue      = [[Tokyo Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan|Kosei Nenkin Hall]] and [[Nakano Sun Plaza]], Tokyo
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wagner|first=Jeff|date=30 January 2013|title=10 All-Time Greatest Metal Live Albums|url=https://noisecreep.com/best-live-albums-of-all-time/|access-date=10 October 2021|website=Noisecreep|language=en-US}}</ref>
| length     = 44:35
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer   = {{hlist|Judas Priest|[[Tom Allom]]}}
| prev_title = [[Killing Machine]]
| prev_year  = 1978
| next_title = [[British Steel (album)|British Steel]]
| next_year  = 1980
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Unleashed in the East
 | type        = Live
 | single1     = [[Diamonds & Rust (song)#Popular covers|Diamonds and Rust]]
 | single1date = December 1979 (US)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/446/mode/2up|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995|page=447 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press }}</ref>
}}
}}
'''''Unleashed in the East''''' is the first [[live album]] by the English [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Judas Priest]], released in September 1979 on [[Columbia Records]]. It was recorded live over two nights in Tokyo during their [[Hell Bent for Leather Tour]] in February 1979. Upon release ''Unleashed'' became the band's best-selling album up to that point, reaching the US Top 100<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/unleashed-in-the-east-r10662/charts-awards |title=Unleashed in the East – Charts & Awards |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721001540/http://www.allmusic.com/album/unleashed-in-the-east-mw0000194427/awards |archive-date=21 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the UK Top Ten,<ref name="kkdowning steel mill">{{cite web |url=http://www.kkdowning.net/specialreports/otherreports/uite.html |title=Unleashed in the East |author=Ville Krannila |publisher=K.K. Downing Steel Mill |access-date=11 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624070130/http://www.kkdowning.net/specialreports/otherreports/uite.html |archive-date=24 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> eventually the album became one of the five Judas Priest albums to gain a RIAA platinum certification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database |title=Gold & Platinum Searchable Database – May 18, 2014 |publisher=RIAA |access-date=2014-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830055854/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database |archive-date=30 August 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the first Priest album to be produced by [[Tom Allom]] who would remain at the helm for the next decade for the band, and the last release to feature drummer [[Les Binks]].

To what extent the album was really live remains a matter of contention, with the album being nicknamed ''Unleashed in the Studio'' by some listeners.<ref name="kkdowning steel mill"/> Years later, after he had left Priest, [[Rob Halford]] noted in various interviews that the music was indeed live, but that his vocals had been ruined in the original recording and were later dubbed in a concert-like studio setting.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bogdanov|first=Vladimir|title=All music guide to rock: the definitive guide to rock, pop, and soul|year=2002|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=978-0-87930-653-3|pages=606, 605|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bgn9SGmA4dkC&pg=PA605|author2=Chris Woodstra |author3=Stephen Thomas Erlewine }}</ref>