Jugulator

Jugulator
Studio album by Judas Priest
Publication (s)	October 28, 1997
Label (s)	SPV
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Heavy metal , thrash metal
Title (number)	8th
running time	58:08
occupation	Tim Owens - vocals KK Downing - Guitar Glenn Tipton - guitar Ian Hill - electric bass Scott Travis - drums
production	Glenn Tipton, KK Downing, Sean Lynch
Studio (s)	Silvermere Studios, Surrey (England)
chronology Painkiller (1990) Jugulator Demolition (2001)

Jugulator is the 13th studio album by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest . It was released in Japan on October 16, 1997, and in the rest of the world on October 28, 1997. It was the first of two Judas Priest studio albums with singer Tim Owens .

background

With the album, the band said goodbye to the previous style, and turned to influences from Thrash Metal , Neo-Thrash to Death Metal . The guitars were partly tuned down to C # (three semitones lower) or even dropped C tuning . The lyrics were also harder. "Cathedral Spiers" was about a mechanized monster. A music video was shot for the song Burn in Hell , but more than two minutes of the piece were cut off in the final cut. Bullet Train was for the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance nominated but lost to Better Than You by Metallica .

Track list

All titles were written by Glenn Tipton and KK Downing .

1. Jugulator - 5:50
2. Blood Stained - 5:26
3. Dead Meat - 4:44
4. Death Row - 5:04
5. Decapitate - 4:39
6. Burn In Hell - 6:42
7. Brain Dead - 5:24
8. Abductors - 5:51
9. Bullet Train - 5:13
10. Cathedral Spiers - 9:17 am

criticism

The expectations for the album were very high. The reactions were mixed to critical. Jeremy Ulrey described the album as a lukewarm infusion of Painkiller . The lyrics were also criticized as "childish".

Web links

• Official website
• Jugulator at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steve Huey on allmusic.com ; Retrieved October 6, 2011