Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed

Brutal Planet was succeeded by the sonically similar and acclaimed sequel Dragontown (2001), which saw Bob Ezrin back as producer. The album has been described as leading the listener down “a nightmarish path into the mind of rock’s original conceptual storyteller” and by Cooper himself as being “the worst town on Brutal Planet”. Like The Last Temptation , both Brutal Planet and Dragontown are albums which explore Cooper’s born-again Christianity. It is often cited in the music media that Dragontown forms the third chapter in a trilogy begun with The Last Temptation ; however, Cooper has indicated that this in fact is not the case.