Artist: Judas Priest
Title: The Essential
Label: Sony Music
Cat #: SM_88875075322
Release Year: 2015
Duration: Album
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

The Essential Judas Priest is a 2006 2-disc compilation album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest. It contains 34 songs from throughout their career right up to their then-most recent album Angel of Retribution, but excludes the Tim "Ripper" Owens era and material from their debut album Rocka Rolla.

Recommended if you like: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Dio, Saxon, Accept, Halford, King Diamond, Helloween, W.A.S.P., Motorhead

Track Listing:
CD 1
1. Victim Of Changes
2. The Ripper
3. Sinner
4. Diamonds And Rust
5. Exciter
6. Beyond The Realms Of Death
7. Hell Bent For Leather
8. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)
9. Delivering The Goods
10. Before The Dawn
11. Breaking The Law
12. Metal Gods
13. Living After Midnight
14. Heading Out To The Nighway
15. The Hellion
16. Electric Eye
17. You've Got Another Thing Coming
18. Screaming For Vengeance
19. Love Bites

CD 2
1. Freewheel Burning
2. Jawbreaker
3. The Sentinel
4. Turbo Lover
5. Blood Red Skies
6. Ram It Down
7. Painkiller
8. A Touch Of Evil
9. Night Crawler
10. Hell Patrol
11. Judas Rising
12. Revolution
13. Nostradamus
14. Dragonaut
15. Redeemer Of Souls