Tim Owens

Also, of course, he was the original lead guitarist for Metallica.

Ripper Owens was born in 1967.

He rose from being a tribute band singer to becoming the lead vocalist to replace Rob Halford in Judas Priest, at least in the late 1990s.

Vinny Appice was born in 1957, the drummer who anchored the rhythm sections for both Black Sabbath and also for Dio.

And this is Charred Walls of the Damned, which is a progressive death metal album from Richard Christie, formerly of Death and the Howard Stern Show.

and Iced Earth and things like that, featuring Tim Ripper Owens on vocals, Jason Sukoff, the producer on guitars, and Steve DiGiorgio of Death, Status, and Testament on bass.

And this came in a frosty ocean blue vinyl, but what color do you think this is,

Nick? That is refreshing ocean spray cranberry.

Original Halford era? Yeah.

Tim Ripper Owens era and then returning Halford is at the bottom.

And I didn't do this on purpose.

Like I literally was putting them together as I was going through and I was like, wow, that's really fascinating that that's how they ended up.

Yeah.

But something I like as well is that even though, you know...

Tim Ripper Owens, he can do the Rob Halford thing.

He doesn't lean on it as a crutch.

Keep it locked on The Monster.

Tim Owens on The Monster, VB 99.5.

This is Bib Dal from Dominic Fike right there.

All right, we're just about to close the Gimmicks radio show.

Yeah.

So I played with Ripper Owens from Judas Priest.

Okay.

Hell yes.

Living After Midnight hinted at Point of Entry, Hard As Iron hinted at Painkiller, Loch Ness hinted at Nostradamus, and Love Bites hinted at Turbo.

golly, this dude is too smart, you know? The only abrupt shift they ever made was probably Jugulator, which is one of the Ripper Owens albums.

Anyway, for me personally, this album is the ultimate blend of their 70s sound and early 80s metal sound, and the Sentinel is the absolute perfection of that vision.

I will give them that.

So getting back to good metal.

And of course, Angel of Retribution coming back from Ripper Owens era with Jugulator and Demolition.

But there's no comparison in productivity or quality between Priest and Halford during those 15 years.

Rob Halford kicked some serious ass with Fight and Halford.

And Judas Priest put out two... very flawed and uninspired records, uh, with Tim Ripper Owens, um, jugulator and both fight records were definitely a sign of the times, uh, with the groove metal explosion, especially, you know, Pantera and all them.

Um, I think fight did it a lot better with war of words and small deadly space than, than priest did with jugulator and demolition, my opinion.

And I, I think everyone would agree.

It was phenomenal.

I was seeing Tim Ripper Owens with KK's Priest that year.

And

I mean, it was