Judas Priest - Ram It Down
| Release date: | 17 May 1988 |
| Style: | Heavy metal |
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01. Ram It Down
02. Heavy Metal
03. Love Zone
04. Come And Get It
05. Hard As Iron
06. Blood Red Skies
07. I'm A Rocker
08. Johnny B. Goode [Chuck Berry cover]
09. Love You To Death
10. Monsters Of Rock
11. Night Comes Down [Live at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, USA in May 5, 1984] [2001 Re-Release bonus]
12. Bloodstone [Live at Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA in December 12, 1982] [2001 Re-Release bonus]
02. Heavy Metal
03. Love Zone
04. Come And Get It
05. Hard As Iron
06. Blood Red Skies
07. I'm A Rocker
08. Johnny B. Goode [Chuck Berry cover]
09. Love You To Death
10. Monsters Of Rock
11. Night Comes Down [Live at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, USA in May 5, 1984] [2001 Re-Release bonus]
12. Bloodstone [Live at Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA in December 12, 1982] [2001 Re-Release bonus]
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Lyrics Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford - vocals
Kenneth "K.K." Downing - guitar
Glenn Raymond Tipton - guitar
Dave Holland - drums
Ian Frank Hill - bass
Additional info
Produced by Tom Allom. Co-produced by Glenn Tipton, Rob Halford and K.K. Downing.
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As Painkiller is possibly Priest's most popular album, Judas Priest must have had an era which lasted for at least three albums in a row, and had quite a same style. Taking a listen through Judas Priest's whole discography is a very interesting experience when you notice how the style, sound and melodies have changed during the years. Ram it Down was the album before Painkiller and these two do really have same kind of sound in them, Painkiller gained a lot more publicity and the band just succeeded better on that one. Read more ›› |
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Judas Priest has always been a band that have changed their style a lot - from the early rock albums to harder stuff, then more or less inventing heavy metal before putting out some quite cheesy stuff in the eighties. This resulted, at least in my opinion, that Judas Priest put out many albums that only feel like a transport to the next classic album. 'Ram It Down' is such an album, and I imagine Judas Priest didn't really know where they wanted to go when they wrote the songs for this album. Still - there is no Priest album without good songs and 'Ram It Down' is not an exception. Read more ›› |
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 MetalexPosts: 75 From: Canada  |
I like this albulm much more than painkiller but boths are fucking goods!
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| Vasil de Shumen tolerant Posts: 301 From: Bulgaria  |
Blood Red Skies ... awesome gem - dark, expressive, epic 
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| Ellrohir Heaven Knight Posts: 8322 From: Czech Republic  |
I always loved "Johnny B. Goode"
---- So behold the flight of the sapphire dragon soaring through the skies once again 
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 Angelic StormMelodious Posts: 6675 From: UK  |
This album sits between "Turbo" and "Painkiller", and it does sound very much like a mixture of both those albums. It sounds like a heavier version of "Turbo", and at the same time, it sounds like a lighter version of "Painkiller". It has elements of both albums, but isn't a carbon copy of either. Even the faster paced tracks like "Hard As Iron" and the title track contain traces of the glam metal from it's predecessor, whereas in contrast, mid-paced tracks like "Love You To Death" and "Heavy Metal" have a harder, and rougher edge to them than anything on "Turbo". I don't like the album as much as "Painkiller", and a couple of fillers let the album down a bit, but it is an underrated album, with some genuinely great songs and memorable riffs contained within it.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10017 From: Belgium  |
"Blood Red Skies" always does it for me. I remember the epicness of it all when they played it for one of the first ever times in concert when I saw them in Bucharest. Definitely one of my top 5 Priest tracks ever.
---- Sing me a song, you're a singer Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil.
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| Jaeryd Nihil's Maw Posts: 1028 From: USA  |
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| ManiacBlasphemer Black Knight Posts: 862 From: Romania  |
I do not know what you guys think, but I dig this one. Ram it Down, I'm A Rocker, Heavy Metal, Monster of Rock, Blood Red Skies... these are stuff that I have not removed from my playlist for years! And I just can't get enough. Not equal with with Painkiller, way better than Turbo, but an amazing Judas Priest album... and very underrated!
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| Ruchesko Posts: 389 From: UK  |
Title track and "Blood Red Skies" are vintage Priest, but the first half veers deep into Spinal Tap territory. I for one shall never be setting foot in Rob Halford's "Love Zone".
---- "Making a death threat is too easy these days. If every tweet cost a stamp, people would have a whole lot less opinions." -Andrew Maxwell
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| Jagermeister Posts: 19 From: Georgia  |
Criminally underrated!
---- But don't you ever get lost in Necropolis?
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| Metalheart39 Posts: 28 From: Germany  |
Much underrated. I really like this one, it has some excellent songs. Rami It Down, Hard As Iron & Blood Red Skies are awesome. And the other songs are very good too, in whole thing an very good album.
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Underrated? Wtf guys 
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| Bad English Masterchief Posts: 45694 From: Sweden  |
Well after lates commercial slow album, pop metal, they put somehow heavy peace out and maybe tittle is like a cleansing, cool it down, we are metal band, last was some experiment. I like it, decdendt peace IMO
---- Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!! Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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 Marcel HubregtseGrumpy Old Fuck Posts: 39520 From: The Netherlands  |
Written by Bad English on 15.09.2017 at 15:56 And this one is just as crap as Turbo.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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