The Epitaph World Tour was a concert Social_event tour Traveling by English heavy metal band , Judas Priest , at the time intended to be the band 's farewell tour .

hawke delivered Expressing_publicly his farewell address at parliament house a day earlier .

We firmly believe Protest that it is our most complete and satisfying Change_sentiment album and ca n't think Coming_to_believe of a better way to farewell our fans than with music that we all believe in and also with , hopefully , our best tour to date . ''

The band officially announced Expressing_publicly their break-up in August 2011 and also announced Expressing_publicly plans Arranging of doing one last farewell tour before officially disbanding Response .

The farewell tour was officially announced Expressing_publicly on August 9 , 2012 , when the band revealed Reveal_secret the tour dates to take place Process_start in December 2012 .

The farewell tour Traveling consisted Cause_to_be_included of 8 dates in China and 33 in the UK and Ireland culminating in 2 nights at Croke Park in June .