Every Judas Priest Albums Ranked Worst To Best
15. Ram It Down
Released in 1988 Ram It Down was a return to the band’s heavier roots and was originally supposed to be part of a double album (unfortunately this aspect of the project never came to fruition).
This was one of the albums at the band’s most commercially successful stages and famously was the last Priest record to have Dave Holland on drumming duty. Holland ended up leaving the band the following year citing “creative differences”.
Dramatic departures aside, Ram It Down managed to mostly satisfy Priest-heads nearly a decade and a half after the band’s debut effort. This is no small feat; how many of your favourite bands from fifteen years ago are still making satisfactory music?
Whilst one of the stronger Priest albums of its era, the work lacked an overall cohesiveness listeners came to expect from a group this popular. That being said, the album contains a crackers cover version of Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode that is well worth a listen.