Ultimately those would be just excuses because there is only one thing that keeps this album from receiving its deserved praise and there is no reason to avoid addressing it any further. Maybe its criticisms are just unlucky by this being the bands 13th studio album, or no metal band being successful in the ‘90s not named Metallica or Pantera, or maybe it was a monumentally heavy and depressing collection of songs for a band that somehow always found a way to make even heavy material engrossing. Since they has always been a leading description of what it means to be ‘metal’, if there was ever an album that defined what they mean by ‘Defenders of the Faith’, it is the thoughtlessly criticized Jugulator. No metal band better exemplifies this mindset than Judas Priest. The only sure way to remain relevant and respected by the general public is to evolve as the landscape does, take bold chances and subvert all expectations. The mentality and chemistry within the musical institution that is Judas Priest was to forego this career path, to jeopardize their ‘consistent’ record sales by remaining a chameleon. Other bands struggle to find themselves as nostalgia acts because they paint themselves firmly into a time and space, their fortunes coming with the hindrance of predetermined expectation. But how exactly did this dinosaur of a band manage to avoid this catastrophic mass extinction? So while the bands that led metal throughout its most prolific and profitable decade were made to be obsolete by early 1992, it should be no surprise that Judas Priest - the band most responsible for creating and leading that ‘80s metal charge - would find a way to fit in perfectly with the no fun ‘90s.
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Whereas the ‘80s art was full of thrilling youthful opportunity under sunny skies, the cultural zeitgeist of the ‘90s was full of slit wrist youthful angst under gloomy overcast.
Now while the over indulgent ‘80s did not end with the stock of every conceivable commodity plummeting faster than a pop singers self respect, it did spawn the rather grim and depressing ‘90s. The roaring decade saw that reproach come with the worst worldwide downturn in modern human history. When everyone felt the free-spirited lifestyle would last forever and no reproach for the reckless! abandon a decade known for its music being defined by energy and innovation but that shortsightedness to reality always leads to payment when the piper returns to restore proper focus away from this over sanitized theater. That description of the mid ‘80s has interesting parallels to more than a half century prior, the roaring mid ‘20s. Beach blonde bombshells and heroes, marvels of newly digital advancements and a freewheel burning lifestyle binging on all indulgences.
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Music is like all other art mediums, a reflection of the era it originates from and the music of the era reflected vibrant energy declarations of vanity and free spirited passion. The cultural zeitgeist was that of endless youth and rolling in prairies of money as plentiful as dandelions. Lots of parties along beach shores, cruising along glamorous city strips, indulgence on the finest caviar and meths, pink lasers glowing off the chemically rendered big hair. Being an adult in 1986 there were certainly lots of wild nights along with the hot and crazy days.
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