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3.5 great | Ossacip Olbap | October 5th 21 | jps first full metal album and their best, ascending the heavens and diving into the abyss, highlights in HEAVY METAL and the epic best jp track HARD IRONNNN
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2.0 poor | GamamJ | March 16th 20 | Judas Priest step it up after Turbo, but just barely. The album opens up with the blistering title-track leading me to think this might be another Priest classic after the misstep on Turbo. Unfortunately, after that track, it all goes back to Turbo-esque commercial hell, albeit with a little more heaviness. The still very symthetic and commercial production again makes it borderline unlistanable, especially the drums.
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3.5 great | Resident Metalhead Piranha | July 5th 17 | Ram it Down finds the group restoring a lot of the metal that was seemingly lost on Turbo, and they add even more speed metal than ever to the mix. Opening title track is a headbanging tune with a great chorus and impressive guitarwork. "Heavy Metal" is drenched in terrific guitar solos and some badass riffing and is a cheesy but awesome tune. "Love Zone" is also quite cheesy but the riffing, chorus, and vocals are a delight. "Come And Get it" and the marvelous "Hard as Iron" continue the guitar heavy trend with the latter being the closest to thrash metal they've reached up to that point. "Blood Red Skies" is a bit long but is a solid epic, and the "Johnny B. Goode" cover is a well done cover. Like Defenders of The Faith, the second half of the album is inconsistent, and the production (especially the drums) has a dated feel, but Ram it Down is a step up from Turbo with its more metallic tunes and some great tunes and paves the way for the band's third pinnacle (and their most metallic album to date).
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3.0 good | westerndragon | June 12th 16 | Pretty average speed metal, but this is Judas Priest, the masters of inconsistency. Even in their worst albums, they have astoundingly good songs. On Ram It Down there are only two tracks you need to listen to: Hard as Iron, and the epic Blood Red Skies.
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3.0 good | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | October 11th 15 | The opening title track may have been their fastest yet, and a song titled Love Zone on an 80s metal album is actually not half bad! Still carries some of Turbo's problems, worst of all general cheesiness and corny production, the Johnny B. Goode cover is, in Halford's own words, "silly", and it still pales in comparison to both their 70s material and the almighty upcoming Painkiller, but it's not horrible. Dare I say this could've been a 3.5 if the second half was as decent as the first, or possibly even a 4 if the second half were better, but unfortunately they couldn't quite get it together all the way.
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0.0 | mandan | December 5th 13 | Ram it Down is neither a terrible album nor a particularly fantastic one. It has some of the best songs of the band's 80's era, but also some of the blandest.rYou're pretty much better off nitpicking those 5 and forgetting the rest of the album. There's really not much of a point in jamming the whole thing, unless you're a diehard fan of this era, and of this album in particular. rPersonal Rating: 3.4
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3.5 great | AvantSeventier | December 29th 11 | It's a great album, with a great opener song (Ram It Down), altought Iy may sounds 'annoying' or 'cheesy' in the early. It turns out better at the end ("Blood Red Skies", "I'm A Rocker" and "Monsters Of Rock").
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4.5 superb | Fernando Alves STAFF | July 28th 11 | Extreme underrated! This record has is weak points sure but also has amazing songs like Ram It Down (probably the best solo duet ever made), Hard as Iron, Blood Red Skies or I'm a Rocker. One of my personal favourites.
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4.0 excellent | Vladek | May 3rd 10 | i have changed my mind
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3.0 good | Xenorazr | November 14th 09 | Merely a small step above Turbo overall, with the first half having the strong tracks while the second (save for "Blood Red Skies") hits below the mark.
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2.5 average | mooncrazy | September 23rd 08 | Best song: Ram It Down
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