Did the highest selling album of Judas Priest release before or after the one produced by Roy Z?
Redeemer of Souls Redeemer of Souls is the seventeenth studio album by the English heavy metal band Judas Priest, which was released on 8 July 2014. It is their first album without founding guitarist K. K. Downing, who quit the band in 2011 and was replaced by new guitarist Richie Faulkner. The album sold around 32,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart, the band's highest charting position in the US after the group's previous album "Nostradamus" debuted at No. 11. This marks the band's first top-10 album debut in the US. It has sold 110,000 copies in the US as of February 2016.
Tom Werman Tom Werman (born in Boston, MA) was an A&R man and record producer for Epic Records from 1970 into 1982. He has produced 23 gold and platinum albums by acts including Mother's Finest, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, Molly Hatchet, Blue Öyster Cult, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Stryper, Hawks, Kix, L.A. Guns, and Poison. While in A&R at Epic Records, he signed REO Speedwagon, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Molly Hatchet and Boston to the label. Werman became an independent producer in 1982 and continued to work until 2001, when he produced the music and soundtrack for the film "Rock Star", starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. Werman's producing credits also include key recordings by The Producers, Mother's Finest, Gary Myrick & The Figures, Jason & The Scorchers, Krokus, Lita Ford, Kix, LA Guns and Dokken.