Judas Priest - Ram It Down

I like this albulm much more than painkiller but boths are fucking goods!

Blood Red Skies ... awesome gem - dark, expressive, epic

I always loved "Johnny B. Goode"

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.

"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.

Blood Red Skies is definitely the best track on the CD.

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!

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".

Criminally underrated!

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.

Underrated? Wtf guys

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

Written by Bad English on 15.09.2017 at 15:56

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

And this one is just as crap as Turbo.

I like it, I'm fan so I might be biased but damn I am liking those songs I ignored in the past like "Love Zone" and "Come And Get It".

Written by Mountain King on 11.01.2020 at 15:08

I like it, I'm fan so I might be biased but damn I am liking those songs I ignored in the past like "Love Zone" and "Come And Get It".

Just so I don't get a reply "listen to Blood Red Skies". Of course I know it, first time listened to it in 2005 and it has been one of my fav JP songs and the best on Ram It Down ever since.

Weaker than Turbo. The songs feels some what incomplete and the drum machine doesn't work at all (except in Blood Red Skies, it gives a nice mechanical touch to the song). Aside from Blood Red Skies I only like Ram it Down, I'm a Rocker and Monsters of Rock (though none of those songs are any favourites). The rest of the songs are in the bottom end of their career.

A better follow-up from Turbo imo, but mostly contains mediocre tracks, which were made up though by a few really good tracks being "Ram It Down", "Hard As Iron, and the best being "Blood Red Skies".

I don't think this one's that good either. After the backlash they got from pop-oriented Turbo they probably just went back to more metal style to save their careers, but I don't think this one's focused and consistent enough to be that enjoyable. There's good bits and pieces here and there like Blood Red Skies, but I've just never really felt this one. I've probably listened to Turbo more than Ram It Down.

Quite a lot of skippable songs. Ram It Down, Hard as Iron and Blood Red Skies are indeed waaay better than the rest -- Hard as Iron actually sounds like it could be on Painkiller, really similar sound to its songs Overall pretty average album, wouldn't listen to it as whole.

7 for the album, 10 for Blood Red Skies.

In these times of rating everything a 6 or a 7 in exchange of a mild musical entertaintment, it's great to come back to such things, maybe my least favorite Priest when I heard it. Then you rediscover the incredible production, vocal performances, catchy riffs and jaw dropping solos. The only complaints I can think of now are the constant sexual innuendo and the Johnny B Good cover. But yeah, this used to be a not so terrible album. Still better than most of new stuff nowadays, way much work put into it

Well, Ram It Down is IMHO JP's weakest album since Rocka Rolla. Yes, I actually think it's weaker than Turbo Lover. Of course, there are a few great songs on it. The title track, "Hard as Iron" and "Blood Red Skies." But that's pretty much it. The rest is okay but no killers.