JUDAS PRIEST — Ram It Down (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Ram It Down album cover Album · 1988 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Stephen
After the commercial success of "Turbo" but swarmed with negative critics of their loyal fans, Judas Priest tried a balance approach by returning to their primal sound yet still maintaining a friendly sound, and the result is somewhat quite confusing, like they're in the middle of a bridge, can't decide whether to back down or move forward. In this album, Judas Priest played the classic heavy metal and occasionally thrown some glam harmonic elements in their songs which some worked out fine while some didn't.

I remember buying an old tape of "Ram It Down" when I was around 14 and I first thought "damn, this is so loud", and later I found out that "Painkiller" is way beyond this. I still love couple of tracks such as "Ram It Down", "Heavy Metal", "Hard As Iron", and the Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Goode", but I can't stand the godawful cheesy "Love Zone", "Blood Red Skies", or bored-me-to-death "Monsters of Rock". While Downing/Tipton still delivered a lethal twin solos and Halford still got a great range, the uneven songwriting is the weak point of the whole album. Overall, this is an average album some of you might enjoy.
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