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Judas Priest - Jugulator Ahh, the Ripper Owens era, the albums all most priest fans love to hate, except if you are a big Priest fan, and you hate it, you're not being a very kind friendly fan like you should be are you? They hardly gave Ripper a chance, and that's one of the main reasons that Jugulator wasn't a HUGE success. The First Song is The title Track "JUG-U-LAY-TORRR!" Great Intro, loving the Industrial feel, you can tell when the song starts, that this, is the heaviest Priest album EVER, absolutely Thundering riffs and a Awesome Death Metal/Thrash feel, And Tim does a great job on vocals, he may not be Rob, but he has his own voice you know! he doesn't have to sound exactly like him! Second Song is Blood Stained, not much to say about this track except that it's AWESOME! oh and heavy aswell, of course. "You Cannot Wash, The Blood.. Stains.. OFFFFFF!" Next is the Obliterating 'Dead Meat' probably The 2nd Heaviest song on the Album, and one of the best on the album, the chorus rules! And the lyrics are pretty cool aswell. Now for my favourite song on the album! "OH NO! I WON'T GO! you'll never get me down to... DEATH ROW!" Possibly the best intro, the best chorus, and riff in the same song, although almost every song on this album has a brilliant riff this one is probably the best. The Guitar solos are AMAZING! If you don't like this song, your on a one way ticket to.. DEATH ROW!!! And now, get ready for, DECAPITATIOOOOOOON! This song has got to be the most heavy, and Death Metally song on the album, the lyrics are great, Decapitate, Walk Through Hells Gate! *Chopping Sound of Posers losing their heads*. Burn In Hell is an Fantastic Song song, Ripper's Vocals are extremely Awesomely Great on this track also. they even had a cool music vid for this one! 8E-tCigMeD0 And now we get to the 2 slightly yawny songs on the album, although Brain Dead is actually alright abductors has to be my least favourite, they don't really have the energy of the other songs, and never interested me as much. Hello everybody, and welcome to the Bullet Train, we hope you enjoy your journey, IF YOU SURVIVE THAT IS! HAHAHAA! This track is absolutely brilliant, the lyrics are some of the best on this album, and the vocals are fandabbydosey. the the yell at the start is just awesome, "Bullet, bullet, Bullet Train! Piercing through, through MY BRAIN!!!" And that's it for this albu.. what? whats that? THERE'S ANOTHER SONG! OH BOY! Cathedral Spires is the EPIC of the album, what lochness should've been maybe,(from angel of retribution) It has a nice ballad at the start, to make you feel safe, and then the guitar comes in like a bloody chainsaw! rips straight in your ear, Fantastic, This song has the best structure of any song on the album, its my fav along with Death Row, I really can't explain how good it is, except that it is amazing, and that Ripper is an amazing vocalist, go on, find out for yourself! 6g4yhSjyc3M "Oooooh i'm sooo tired, time to rise up and retire" (in my bed!) (Cathedral Spires Lyrics quote)

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Congrats for your review!. I bought this cd in its very release date, I remember it even achieved a good position at spanish charts. After a long time since "Painkiller" it was just like "hey man, the Priest is back!!". And the new recording was no disapointment to me. Tipton was highly influenced by Machine Head's sound back then and it is reflected on the overall sound. It showed that Judas Priest was not a band just living from the past. I agree with u, "Death Row" is awesome and "Cathedral Spires" was such an epic ending!! Sadly it's an underrated album by some die-hard Halford fans. Later, some years ago I met Ripper Owens after a Beyond Fear concert and I got this album signed, we were talking mainly about Jugulator.

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Sorry, Priest is my favorite band of all time, but this album is absolute garbage. However, this is not the fault of Owens who didn't have a lot to do with the songwriting, which is where they fail. Between this and the other Ripper album, it shows that neither Tipton or Downing can write on their own. While Painkiller was also a heavy album, it had the traditional Priest sound. This was heavy for the sake of being heavy with nothing memorable. The only decent track is Funeral Spires.

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