Judas Priest to be first Rock Band album

MTV Games have announced that Judas Priest’s 1982 album, Screaming for Vengeance, will be the first fully downloadable album to be available for Rock Band. The album will be available on April 24th for PS3. An Xbox Live date remains vauge, but it will be coming sometime “next week.”

“That album was an important, seminal heavy-metal album in the early ’80s,” Alex Rigopulos, co-founder of MTV-owned development studio Harmonix commented “It was on the short list of albums that had to be available on the platform.”

The company also revealed that The Cars self titled 1978 album The Cars will be the next available for the game, with it been available sometime in May. Pixies’ 1989 album Doolittle will then follow that in June.

All albums will be offered as $15 downloads on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Individual tracks however can be bought for $1.99 if wanted.

It’s expected that all of these tracks will also be available for the game come it’s late May release in Europe. So if you are willing to pay the steep asking price for the game and instrument peripherals you wont feel left out for too long.