Demolition (Judas Priest album)

Demolition
Studio album by Judas Priest
Released 16 July 2001
Recorded 1999–2001, Silvermere Studios, Surrey, England
Genre Heavy metal, nu metal
Length 78:43
Label SPV/Steamhammer (Europe and Japan)
Atlantic Records (Americas/South Africa/Middle East/India/ANZ)
Producer Glenn Tipton
Judas Priest chronology
Jugulator
(1997)		 Demolition
(2001)		 Angel of Retribution
(2005)
Singles from Demolition
  1. "Machine Man"
    Released: June 1, 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone link

Demolition is the 14th studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, the first in the decade of the 2000s. It is the second and final studio album to feature Tim 'Ripper' Owens on vocals. It is the only Judas Priest studio album to feature a Parental Advisory label due to some songs featuring profanity: "Machine Man," "Hell Is Home" and "Metal Messiah" all carry explicit markings on the album's iTunes page.

Background and reception

Following the lukewarm-to-decent reception to Jugulator, the band scrambled to assess what exactly went wrong, and determined that fans preferred a sound more faithful to Priest's back catalog. The resulting album would be an amalgam of Jugulator-style riffs, references to '80s Priest, and sporadic nu-metal additions such as samples, downtuned guitars, rapping, and industrial-style beats. While the ostensible aim was to offer something for every possible fan, in the end, the album received a much poorer reception than Jugulator by most fans -- and would result in the eventual reunion of the "classic" line-up with Halford. Owens has stated that Demolition was his favorite album that he did with the group, claiming it had "better vocals and more melody" than Jugulator.

Songwriting and production

The album was produced by guitarist Glenn Tipton, who also took over as the primary songwriter. The band's main songwriting team had long consisted of Rob Halford, K. K. Downing, and Tipton. After Halford departed, however, Downing and Tipton wrote all the songs on Jugulator. On this album, many of the songs were written solely by Tipton, with contributions from Downing on several songs. Former producer Chris Tsangarides, who cowrote "A Touch of Evil" on Painkiller, also assisted in the writing of a few songs. Drummer Scott Travis cowrote "Cyberface" – his first and only contribution to writing in the band's history. (Les Binks was Priest's only other drummer to cowrite a song.) This was the first album since Painkiller to feature a guest appearance by keyboardist Don Airey, who had played on "A Touch of Evil."

"People will wonder if a new Priest album is as good as any of the fifteen that came before it," Tipton acknowledged. "I'm confident they'll think this one is. It has some manic, hooligan tracks, like 'Machine Man' and 'Bloodsuckers', as well as a typical 'Ripper' song in 'Jekyll and Hyde'.[2]

The songs "Machine Man" and "Feed on Me" were included in Judas Priest's box set Metalogy.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Machine Man"Glenn Tipton5:35
2."One on One"K. K. Downing, Tipton6:44
3."Hell Is Home"Downing, Tipton6:18
4."Jekyll and Hyde"Tipton3:19
5."Close to You"Downing, Tipton4:28
6."Devil Digger"Tipton4:45
7."Bloodsuckers"Downing, Tipton6:18
8."In Between"Tipton5:41
9."Feed on Me"Tipton5:28
10."Subterfuge"Tipton, Chris Tsangarides5:12
11."Lost and Found"Downing, Tipton4:57
12."Cyberface"Tipton, Scott Travis6:45
13."Metal Messiah"Tipton, Tsangarides5:14

Personnel

Judas Priest
Additional musician
Production
  • Produced and arranged by Glenn Tipton; co-produced by Sean Lynch
  • Mastered by Jon Astley
  • Front cover and booklet by L-Space Design
  • Back cover image by Benjamin Davies
  • Photography by Mick Hutson

Charts

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[3] 50
French Albums (SNEP)[4] 72
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[5] 16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[6] 55
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[7] 72
US Billboard 200[8] 165

References

  1. ↑ "Demolition review". AllMusic.
  2. ↑ "The big picture: Demolition derby". Classic Rock #28. June 2001. p. 13.
  3. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Judas Priest – Demolition" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Judas Priest – Demolition". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Officialcharts.de – Judas Priest – Demolition". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Judas Priest – Demolition". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Judas Priest – Demolition". Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Judas Priest Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

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