JUDAS PRIEST

JUDAS PRIEST
DEMOLITION (2001)
320 KBPS

Priest's second album with Owens proved to definitely be a lot stronger than "Jugulator" - taking back a bit of the usual trademarks in the form of a lot of melody and decent solo's coupled with a bit of experimentation.
While there still are a few weaker tracks ("Cyberface" & "Jekyll And Hide") it appears that the average quality of the songs is a lot higher than the ones to be found on "Jugulator". One problem though which also plagued that previous album is the production - instead of sounding dry and boring, Glenn opted for a spacey nu-metal sound for part of the tracks this time - having silly and crap effects and sounds inbetween what are basically quite decent songs - definitely something that Priest DOESN'T need to be succesfull...
It also seems that Ripper has even grown a little bit more in his role as singer / frontman and shows off an entirely new side of his voice - instead of constantly seeking higher registers - there's a lot of very powerfull midrange singing to be found on here - which fits him very well (although the odd shriek wouldn't have been bad either mind you)...
Sadly enough this is a very underrated and overlooked album.

1. Machine Man
2. One On One
3. Hell Is Home
4. Jekyll And Hyde
5. Close To You
6. Devil Digger
7. Bloodsuckers
8. In Between
9. Feed On Me
10. Subterfuge
11. Lost And Found
12. Cyberface
13. Metal Messiah