Jugulator<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is the 13th studio album by British\u00a0heavy metal\u00a0band\u00a0Judas Priest. It was released in Japan on 16 October 1997 and the rest of the world on 28 October 1997. It was their first studio album since\u00a0Painkiller<\/i>\u00a0in 1990 and the first of two studio albums the band recorded without\u00a0Rob Halford\u00a0and with vocalist\u00a0Tim “Ripper” Owens.<\/p>\n
Reaction to the album was divided among those who enjoyed it on its own terms, those who liked the music but would prefer Halford had sung it, and those who disliked it on all counts. Glenn Tipton defended the musical changes: “You must remember that two albums went missing between 1990 and\u00a0Jugulator<\/i>. To us, it’s not the huge leap some people see it as.”\u00a0Despite the mixed reception, “Bullet Train” and “Cathedral Spires” are regarded as classics even by critics who disliked the rest of the album. In a 2011 interview, “Ripper” Owens opined that\u00a0Jugulator<\/i>\u00a0is better than 2008’s\u00a0Nostradamus<\/i>.<\/p>\n
“Some people felt there wasn’t enough melody on\u00a0Jugulator<\/i>,” remarked Tipton, “but we just weren’t feeling very melodic at the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jugulator\u00a0is the 13th studio album by British\u00a0heavy metal\u00a0band\u00a0Judas Priest. It was released in Japan on 16 October 1997 and the rest of the world on 28 October 1997. It was their first studio album since\u00a0Painkiller\u00a0in 1990 and the first of two studio albums the band recorded without\u00a0Rob Halford\u00a0and with vocalist\u00a0Tim “Ripper” Owens. Reaction to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":9320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[14,1],"class_list":["post-9319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judas-priest","tag-heavy-metal","tag-international-rock"],"yoast_head":"\n