Gone is the studded leather jacket Rob Halford used to wear as the frontman for Judas Priest. On the cover of “Voyeurs,” the debut album from his new project, Two, he looks disturbingly similar to the sinister strangers in “Dark City,” with his bald head and fuzzy-collared coat.Halford has also traded in his heavy metal for the typical industrial sound, complete with slap-and-pick bass lines, lyrics full of self-loathing and that unexplainable obsession with swine, as Pig, Pigface and Nine Inch Nails’ “Piggy” and “March of the Pigs” prove. Two’s first single is called – surprise! – “I am a Pig.”While “Voyeurs” isn’t painful to listen to, it’s full of industrial cliches. Almost everything on the album has been done before and has been done better. Because Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails produced the album, the Nine Inch Nails influence is pretty obvious.For example, Halford borrows Reznor’s vocal style for “Stutter Kiss,” half-speaking the lyrics until he erupts into a display of fury for the chorus. The song then becomes Tool’s “Sober” with drum machines until the end, when Halford proclaims, “I don’t hear/I don’t see/I don’t feel/I don’t care.” So many bands have used lyrics like these that it gives you an eerie feeling of deja vu.In fact, Nine Inch Nails could have taken a cue from Metallica and released Two’s “Bed of Rust” as “Piggy II.” Although the very beginning of the song could be mistaken for Marilyn Manson’s “Tourniquet,” the rhythm section sounds like a sped-up version of the Nine Inch Nails’ song. The short dance-type sample, as well as Halford’s unique nasal sneer, lends the track some originality.However, it’s impossible to listen to Two without thinking of other bands. “Gimp” features the trademark guitar sound of Stabbing Westward, and “Water’s Leaking” includes some acoustic guitar reminiscent of Prick.Even though it seems as if Halford followed some industrial formula to create Two’s music, “Voyeurs” does have some redeeming moments. Despite the musical similarities between Two and countless other bands, the release is more guitar-heavy than the typical industrial record.For example, Halford sounds as if he’s in his element in “Leave Me Alone,” the most aggressive track. Perhaps he should have stuck to making metal music.”Hey, Sha La La” is also more metal-sounding, even down to the chorus of “Hey, Sha La La/All I want is you.” Halford is at his best when he’s sounding evil and intimidating, especially when accompanied by the spooky bass and keyboards.”Wake Up” is probably the most original song on the album, mixing techno, industrial, metal and pop. Halford sings the chorus with surprisingly upbeat, pop-type vocals, which is interesting in light of the heavy guitars in the background. The guitars then give way to a techno, spacey dance interval.Although Two is lacking in originality, Halford manages to blend different genres without being a sorry failure like Jimmy Ray, and to update his sound without seeming as pitiful as Van Halen. It’s as if Halford is always a trend behind, missing the industrial bandwagon in 1994 and jumping on now just as everyone else is trying to become techno artists.But at least he finally got rid of the leather jacket.