Judas Priest-Jugulator
First off, the obvious-it's the first album they did with their new lead singer, Tim Owens. His voice is spectacular, and while you can't replace Rob Halford, Owens does a very good job at coming as close as possible to the original sound of Halford. Owens gets a bad rap because he's been in 57 different bands, but his voice is great.
The overall sound of this album is a bit complicated. Some critics say that Priest shifted from traditional metal to a thrash sound and they were disappointed in the change. I can understand how they feel about this, but to me I think the transition worked pretty well. The songs "Burn in Hell", "Bullet Train" and "Brain Dead" are great songs, no matter what genre they are in. In fact, if Halford sang on this album I think it would be regarded in a much better light.
That asks an interesting question-when a singer is replaced will people automatically think that the music is bad strictly because it's not the original singer preforming it? I think Halford is among the best voices in metal history. He's in my top 5, probably top three. No, Tim Owens is not as good as Halford. This album however, deserves a much better reputation than what it has.
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