JUDAS PRIEST — Turbo (review)

JUDAS PRIEST — Turbo album cover Album · 1986 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
666sharon666
The tenth Judas Priest album Turbo from 1986 was actually originally conceived as a double album that would have been called Twin Turbos. The idea was that one disc would focus on the hard rock side of Judas Priest and the other would be their usual heavy metal style. Because of record label resistance (or maybe that should be influence) Twin Turbos was scrapped and the result of that decision was Turbo, the next album Ram It Down and a bunch of tracks that ended up put out as the bonus material for the 2001 remasters of many of the first twelve Judas Priest records.

Turbo itself plays on the hard rock side of the Twin Turbos idea which stylistically puts this album closest to 1981's Point of Entry rather than any other Judas Priest album. It's a bit different too though, in fact I would call a good portion of Turbo glam rock/metal. So in that sense both it and Point of Entry can still both be considered oddballs of Judas Priest's largely traditional metal based discography despite some similarities. Turbo is not a bad record by any stretch of the imagination but as is the case with Point of Entry it's just not an album I personally wanted to hear from Judas Priest (especially not after them getting back on track after that album with Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith) which makes it a fans only release in my book.

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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Yep. Weak as water. Limp as lard

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