Oh. No. Nonononono.
Judas Priest – Jugulator – 1997 (Not Available)
What the fuck were they thinking?
Okay. Let’s get this out of the way. This is the record with “Ripper” Owens, you know, the guy that the movie Rock Star was (“NOT”) based on? Halford is gone. And somehow he took all songwriting abilities with him.
There are no songs here. There are just a series of aggro-neu-metal riffing and slamming with an angry, screaming guy declaring that you are meat, or something.
This non stop attempt to be current fails on so many levels that its sad. Painful. Owens sounds like he’s been directed to sound as much like Halford meets Hetfield as possible and sing some of the stupidest lyrics ever committed to plastic.
This is a terrible record. Not available on itunes OR Amazon. Even the import link is Out of Stock.
Consider yourself lucky.
Grade F
A Side:—–
BlindSide:
DownSide: Everything. This is a mess.
