Painkiller Tour


The Painkiller Tour was a concert tour by British heavy metal band Judas Priest which was in support of the album Painkiller. It ran from 18 October 1990 until 15 April 1991.
This tour introduced new drummer Scott Travis from Racer X, who joined the band in 1989 after previous drummer Dave Holland's departure that same year. He would remain with the band ever since, surpassing Holland as the band's longest staying drummer.

Pre-tour

A one-off pre-tour show took place on 13 September 1990 in which the band performed at the third annual Foundations Forum in Los Angeles. It was recorded and put together along with the performance from Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson's solo band as a bootlegged split live album. The setlist for the event is as follows:
  1. "Riding on the Wind"
  2. "Grinder"
  3. "Heading Out to the Highway"
  4. "Between the Hammer and the Anvil"
  5. "Bloodstone"
  6. "Better By You, Better Than Me"
  7. "The Green Manalishi "
  8. "Leather Rebel"
  9. "Hell Bent for Leather"
  10. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"
Encore:
  1. "Living After Midnight"
Note
  1. "Blood Red Skies"
  2. "Hell Bent for Leather"
  3. "Grinder"
  4. "The Hellion"
  5. "Electric Eye"
  6. "All Guns Blazing"
  7. "Between The Hammer And The Anvil"
  8. "Metal Gods"
  9. "Bloodstone"
  10. "Night Crawler"
  11. "The Ripper"
  12. "Beyond the Realms of Death"
  13. "Metal Meltdown"
  14. Drum Solo
  15. "A Touch of Evil"
  16. "Victim of Changes"
  17. "Painkiller"
  18. "The Green Manalishi "
  19. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"
Encore:
  2. "Breaking the Law"
  3. "Living After Midnight"
"Heading Out To The Highway" was also played once.

Tour dates

The band would tour with Megadeth and Testament on the North American leg and with Pantera and Annihilator on the European and UK leg. Exodus and Death Angel were originally billed for the European leg, but were dropped for unknown reasons and replaced by Pantera. They also performed at the second annual Rock in Rio festival with Queensrÿche, Megadeth, Lobão and Sepultura on 23 January 1991.