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List Price: $13.99 | | Salesrank: 176766
Released: August 19, 2008 |
| Our Price: $89.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Jugulator Track Listing:
1. Jugulator
2. Blood Stained
3. Dead Meat
4. Death Row
5. Decapitate
6. Burn in Hell
7. Brain Dead
8. Abductors
9. Bullet Train
10. Cathedral Spires
Editorial Review:
Ori Release '97. 13th studio album by the British heavy metal band. It is the first of two studio albums featuring vocalist Tim 'Ripper' Owens. 10 trax.
Description of Jugulator:
Oh, how the masses laughed when they heard the once mighty Judas Priest had hired a singer from a Priest cover band to replace indomitable original vocalist Rob Halford. But on 1997's Jugulator, the band's first new album in seven years, it's Priest who get the last laugh. Admittedly, it's kind of strange to hear Tim "Ripper" Owens screeching like the ghost of concerts past, but the band's rhythmic assault is fiercer than ever, mixing aggressive death metal riffs with the group's tried and true melodic grind. Vengeance is theirs. --Jon Wiederhorn
Jugulator Reviews:
Take this album at face value. It rocks, no matter who the singer is 
2009-09-07 - Jugulator. This 1997 Judas Priest release features a new lead singer, Ripper Owens. After Rob Halford left the band in the early 1990s, the band was idle for a while. They hired Owens to take the place of the extremely popular and talented Rob Halford. Owens is a good singer and an adequate substitute for Halford. I think his voice is a cross between Rob Halford and James Hetfield of Metallica. In fact, some of the songs on this album and also the follow up album Demolition sound very much like Metallica songs, with Owens sounding very much like James Hetfield. Whether this was done deliberately or not doesn't matter. This album plain rocks. Take it at face value. Judas Priest altered their sound and style quite a bit for this album and the Demolition album. This stuff is extremely heavy. Owens screams, groans, and hits very high notes as well. Very versatile. He's a little different than Halford, but a good replacement. This is a solid metal album. If you're biased and prefer Rob Halford and the old musical style of Judas Priest, fine. But if you open your mind and just listen to the music and take it at face value, this album will quench your thirst for some good old heavy metal. Top tracks on this album are...all of them. There really isn't a bad song on the whole album. My personal favorite is Burn In Hell.
Give this album a chance if you've stayed 500 yards away from it in the past. I think you'll like it. The songs aren't quite as melodic as the older Priest material, but if you like this style of less melodic music, then this album is for you.
I have not heard this cd
2009-08-13 -
But I bought a used copy of the live 2 CD Meltdown and he's a good singer with some of the songs on it but I can understand why the fans did not like the way the band looked and why Halford returned because thier album sales dropped off dramatically because of Ripper and they just weren't convincing enough trying out a new singer I noticed on one of the live DVD's (Rising in the East) that Halford almost appeared to pass out from the pressure of screaming so loud on the DVD but comparing it to Ripper there is quite a bit of difference. And Ripper isn't as popular now as he once was with his new band Beyond Fear.
This is why I only gave it 4 stars.
Under Rated
2009-05-31 - This is a really under rated album by metal veterans Priest with new singer Tim Owens. Undeniably their heaviest album, it is very heavy and stereotypical. Came at a time when metal was out of fashion. If this was released in the 80s, it would've been a bigger seller. Some see it a further decline, that the band is still trying to recover from Turno. If you like heavy metal, this is a very stereotypical thrash album.
ripper proves he is the updated,perfected rob....
2009-03-11 - this is a great addition to the hundreds of killer recordings,it is fresh an has a vocalist who takes you one on one....ya love him or you like him alot.rob's voice has lost too much to compete with a younger harder rocking substitute......buy this and then the live in london dvd,and you too will be a believer......
Keep an Open Mind.... 
2009-01-23 - When listening to Jugulator and Demolition you have to remember to keep and open mind. We all love Judas Priest and we all love Rob Halford. No one can do the things that Halford does better than him. However on this particular album everyone has to remember that Halford was not in the band at this point so it's not fair to bash the album for the mere fact that Halford is not in the band.
Jugulator is a fine metal album based on its own merits. It has killer riffs, great solos, and pulse pounding drums. As for the vocals sure Ripper is not Halford but that doesn't mean he is a bad singer. Ripper has an amazing voice with unbelievable range. He very admirably fills the gap caused by Halford leaving the band. I read one review critisizing Ripper as a bad lyricist, my response to this is for anyone who thinks this to take out the cd booklet and look at the end of the lyrics to Cathedral Spires and note that it says all lyrics were written by Glenn Tipton not Ripper Owens. To me that is just people looking for any reason they can to find to not like this album simply because Rob Halford is not in the band.
So my recomendation is to listen to this album with open ears and even more so and open mind. You might be suprised at what you hear!
