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Acciaio. Metallo pesante allo stato puro forgiato nella fornace dell'inferno da Mastro Glenn Tipton: questo è Jugulator, primo album dei Preti di Giuda insieme a quel mostro dalle corde vocali sovrumane conosciuto come Tim "Ripper" Owens. Il risultato finale è un disco incredibilmente duro e incazzato, dalla potenza sonora trascendentale in grado di spazzare via in meno di nanosecondo tutti i vari gruppetti raw black o brutal death.
Il masterpiece si apre con l'omonima titletrack, l'inno all'infernale creatura in copertina, mezzo demone e mezza macchina, che dopo il groove metallico dell'intro esplode in una sfuriata devastante, condita da riffs al cardiopalma e falsetti schizoidi da far rizzare i capelli; e si chiude con "Cathedral Spires", un capolavoro dentro un capolavoro, con il suo arpeggio malinconico e i suoi voli melodici, che puntualmente vengono riassorbiti dalle sabbie mobili del riffing, evocativa di uno scenario industriale post-apocalittico, in cui un'umanità ormai sconfitta e rassegnata all'estinzione si vede costretta a rifugiarsi nelle guglie e nei meandri di una fantomatica cattedrale.
Tra questi due estremi ci stanno 37 splendidi minuti di riffs, non velocissimi ma granitici, una batteria sempre pulsante e una voce stupenda che passa con una facilità imbarazzante dal growl al sussurro al falsetto. I temi trattati spaziano dalla condanna della guerra (Blood Stained) all'eutanasia (Brain Dead) passando per la pena di morte (Death Row, Decapitate), il rifiuto del conformismo (Dead Meat) e le pene infernali (Burn In Hell), a dimostrazione di una band che, grazie soprattutto al predecessore "Painkiller" si è scrollata definitivamente di dosso il pessimo retrogusto caramelloso di "Turbo" e la mediocrità di "Ram It Down"
È una vera e propria missione impossibile resistere all'irresistibile crescendo perverso di "Burn In Hell", così come ai ritornelli al fulmicotone, pesanti ma orecchiabili di "Blood Stained", "Dead Meat", "Death Row" o "Bullet Train", canzoni spesso condite da arpeggi melodici ma carichi di tensione, che sono sempre preludio a successive e devastanti esplosioni.
Insomma, questo "Jugulator" è un album da avere e apprezzare sempre e comunque, figlio di un periodo storico del metal che ha dato origine ad altri capolavori misconosciuti come "Angry Machines" di RJ Dio (praticamente fratello gemello di "Jugulator" in quanto ad attitudine e tematiche) o il celeberrimo "The X Factor" degli Iron Maiden, dischi forse troppo avanti per quegli anni, ma che sono a mio parere imprescindibili per chi ama veramente il metal più sofferto e pesante.
"And while such predators, stalk this earth, disguised as saints, they kill our faith" - Blood Stained
"I will not obey, I will not betray, I will not give in, not while I'm living" - Dead Meat
"Death row, say a prayer, best beware, it's not very nice in the electric chair" - Death Row
"Say my name, I can hear you whisper, not to blame? You are going to blister" - Burn In Hell
"Let me pass, from this world, so I fade away in peace" - Brain Dead
"They send you back and disorientate you, a lesser race they discriminate you" - Abductors
"Breakdown close my eyes, voices talking many lies, stained glass bursting in, shattering my world again" - Bullet Train
"They have blown away the daylight hours we had, left a legacy, a deadly aftermath, we cannot exist in godforsaken lands, as we spiral down into oblivion, breathing the fumes of fires that they ignite, losing ground and we are all just losing sight, we shall never see another setting sun, time to rise up and ascend, the and has come" - Cathedral Spires
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01 Jugulator (05:51)
Now let's see what you're made of
He is coming, you can't run
Violators that get caught
Will wish that they'd never been born
Exterminator
You are dead
Mutilate
Sharpened razor
Takes your head
Jugulator
Predit hater
You are trapped
Decimate
Desecrator
Your neck snapped
Jugulator
Jugulator he is near
Attracted by the stench of fear
Part demonic part machine
Hungry and it's time to feed
Iron claws and fangs of steel
Dripping from his tasty meal
Now it's time to jugulate
Feel your skull disintegrate
Jugulator killing time now
Reaches in and rips your spine out
Violator
Big mistake
Mutilate
Vindicator
Rib cage break
Flesh and bones
Are massacred
Jugulator
Desecrator
Jugulator
05 Decapitate (04:39)
Your head
You will lose it
Severed
When executed
You always thought
You'd never get caught
Decapitate
Sealing your fate
Rebels
Futile efforts
Are quelled
With effective measures
The sentence is read
Word that you dread
Decapitate
Walk through hell's gate
You've lost your head sir
Well you will tomorrow - sleep well
This court's
Best deterrent
To set
New precendents
The verdict of course
Couldn't be worse
Decapitate
Example be made
Decapitate
Will seal your fate
07 Brain Dead (05:24)
Turn me off
Pull the plug
Leave me with some dignity
I am not
What I was
And I don't need the sympathy
Alive inside me
No one can hear me
Brain dead
I'm not
Brain dead
Sentenced
Forgot
Paralysed
In my shell
Enduring every
Endless day
Immobilized
On my back
Aware of everything
They say
Extricate me
Eliminate me
Brain dead
I'm not
Brain dead
Drip fed
Forgot
I can't blink my eye or cry
Or even speak
They crowd around my bed
Condescending words are said
Thinking I don't hear or know
What is going on - Hello!
Can't you suckers hear my cries
From inside I'm still alive
It's my decision to abort
Turn off the goddamn life support
Let me pass
From this world
So I fade away in peace
Comprehending
Unrelenting
Brain dead
I'm not
Brain dead
Sentenced
Forgot
Brain dead
I'm not
Brain dead
Drip fed
Forgot
08 Abductors (05:49)
They come at night and they infiltrate you
They paralyse and they mentally rape you
Expressionless they disintegrate you
The probe your soul and desecrate you
Abductors - will bleed your mind
Abductors - cutting inside
They come for you in the night
They strap you in-struments laid before you
And powerless begin to explore you
You scream in pain but they just ignore you
The bring machines and they drill and bore you
Abductors - cutting inside
Abductors - drinking your mind
No-one believes that you
Were chosen from few
Defiled and abused
By alien rituals
You wake in fright there in your room
You better hope your memory fails you
A lower form of life to them
Just one more blood experiment
Abductors - will bleed your mind
Abductors - cutting inside
They come for you in the night
You wake in fright there in your room
You better hope your memory fails you
A lower form of life to them
Just one more blood experiment
They send you back and disorientate you
A lesser race they discriminate you
Whatever said will incriminate you
No-one believes
The sceptics laugh an annihilate you
They dig you out and they excavate you
Authority and even God forsakes you
No-one believes
Hey maybe I am just a liar
09 Bullet Train (05:11)
Sunrise showing every flaw
Paying for the night before
Dark eyes, scanning every vein
Exploding - cannot stand the strain
With each new mile They death defy me
Standing on trial Scrutinize me
And questionize my
Strong denial
Bullet bullet bullet train
Piercing through my brain
Windows illuminating stains
Breakdown closing in again
Freefall as I close my eyes
Voices talking many lies
Changing my course Blurred and scorched
Breathing exhaust As we distort
By gravity
Of such G-force
Bullet bullet bullet train
Piercing through my brain
Breakdown close my eyes
Voices talking many lies
Stained glass bursting in
Shattering my world again
Freefall but never can
Ever reach the ground again
Dark eyes scanning in
Feel my mind explode within
Wanting much more I implore you
Near to death's door To ignore
The screams of all
Who fall before
Bullet bullet bullet train
Piercing through my brain
Bullet bullet bullet train
Piercing through my brain
Bullet
10 Cathedral Spires (09:17)
They have blown away the daylight hours we had
Left a legacy, a deadly aftermath
We cannot exist in godforsaken lands
As we spiral down into oblivion
Breathing the fumes of fires that they ignite
Losing ground and we are all just losing sight
We shall never see another setting sun
Time to rise up and ascend, the end has come
No more willpower
Choked by hell fire
Darkness above
Blackening out the sun
Gripped by steel claws
Corrosion eating us
So before we're all devoured
Time to rise up and retire
In cathedral spires
Watching as the world expires
From up amongst the clouds
In cathedral spires
No names
No graves
No prayers
Can save us
Ashes to dust
Doomsday's upon us now
It cannot be stopped
Genocide all is lost
Oh! We're so tired
Time to rise up and conspire
In cathedral spires
Watching as our world expires
From up above the clouds
In cathedral spires
Jaws of corruption
Swallow us as one
Consuming every nation
Evoke resistance getting none
Complete disintegration
No good to defend
There can be but one outcome
We are no more - ascend
Vaporized fury
Offers no sanctuary
Oh! We're so tired
Time to rise up and retire
In cathedral spires
Watching as the world expires
From up amongst the clouds
In cathedral
In cathedral spires
Oh! We're so tired
Watching the world expire
Time that we retire
Up in cathedral spires
Oh! We're so tired
Watching the world expire
Time that we retire
Up in cathedral spires
Oh! We're so tired
Watching the world expire
Time that we retire
Up in cathedral spires
Oh! We're so tired
Watching the world expire
Time that we retire
Up in cathedral spires
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Di ocram
Con questo non voglio dire che sia un brutto disco... dico solamente che, per il mio modo di vedere, questo è un disco 'usa e getta'.
Sembra quasi che i Judas Priest di fine millennio volessero ribadire il loro ruolo di prime donne nel Metal. Peccato però che non ci siano riusciti.
Di Rainbow Rising
Jugulator è il figlio bastardo di Painkiller, un ragazzone tutto muscoli e steroidi con la maglietta degli Slayer e il tatuaggio dei Pantera.
Il vero capolavoro del disco è Cathedral Spires, nove minuti di maratona tra atmosfere gotiche e decadenti.
