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}} ''Jugulator'' is the thirteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was released in Japan on 16 October 1997 and the rest of the world on 28 October 1997. It is the first album of brand new material since 1990's "Painkiller" and the first of two studio albums the band recorded without Rob Halford, featuring replacement vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens. ==Lyrical content== The lyrics dealt with harsher themes than previous releases, including the eponymous mechanized beast which disembowels its prey, and the end of the world in the song "Cathedral Spires." The guitars were also tuned down as low as C# and C, making a shift from the speed metal and traditional heavy metal elements of ''Painkiller'' to a more thrash/groove metal-oriented sound.〔 The entire album seems to describe the ending of the world, from the coming of the Jugulator ("Jugulator"), to the actual ending of it ("Cathedral Spires"). Songs like "Dead Meat," "Decapitate" and "Burn in Hell" all describe the evils that humans do. In the end, the evil deeds are so great in number that it consumes and destroys the world. "Brain Dead" is written from the perspective of a man who, after a tragedy, has lost the ability to move and speak and is therefore trapped in his mind, having been placed on life support. The footnote in the CD booklet for this song reads "''We all have sympathy for those left to care and despair for victims of tragedy but what of the victim himself—trapped inside his body a coffin—unable to move a muscle or blink an eye but aware of the living hell he's enduring and unable to bring it to an end—a man not even a shadow of his former self—a man who wants to be remembered for what he was—not forgotten because of what he has become.''" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jugulator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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