Judas Priest – Ram It Down

it's a really heavy metal baby...
I recommend purchasing the English press of this album
https://discogs.sitiosdesbloqueados.info/ru/release/1929117-Judas-Priest-Ram-It-Down

Can anyone comment on the sound quality of this pressing please?

I have a sealed 2010 ltd edition copy. How can I know which version I have? (blu, gre, red)? Even the barcodes are the same.

One of the heaviest, fastest and somewhat polished albums in a stil approachable way (unless you dislike heavy metal). Its overall sound is as a raft of brand new, melodically buzzing kinda cacophony bunch of countless vehicles racing at a varying speed like thunderwind's tide.
The recording sound is sharper than ever without risking overexcitement of any Judas Priest fan. The eponymous first track sounds stunningly fast and flashy without loss of any melody with a terribly surprising break, all as one in a million. The album's electric guitars are amazingly amplified by smooth synthesizers without any loss of rawness, contrary to the previously released Turbo album.
Only the tracks 'Hard as Iron', 'Blood Red Skies' and 'Love You To Death' conspicuously lack those merged elements. In spite of that, those three sound like suddenly turning in a new direction without doing harm to the album's theme. They sound like three extremely different breaks which never completely dull a moment.

An astounding highlight of this album is Johnny B. Goode which is a cover of Chuck Berry from the fifties. Compared to the typically fifties rock & roll sounding original, this cover sounds timelessly modern, raw and whimsical so that the original version is only recognizable far behind Judas Priest's hellishly bright horizon on the superfast dawn of the equator. The downside of this album that it lacks both any intangible, eerie aggression and dark mysticism compared to most of their albums from the seventies. However, this album's final track's intro 'Monsters of Rock' does have those three elements like being slightly blown through a cave's entrance!

Quite honestly from my personal perception, this album still has not lost its magic after having heard it more than a hundred times in 25 years: it still sounds superfast, extremely energetic, exciting in an intangible way without evoking harmful agression.

turbo and painkiller are incredibly different sounding albums and this is the extremely heavy 80s connective tissue. the title track features some of the best guitar soloing ever recorded by the rock gods. there is a bit of the synthesized pulsating that gave turbo its flavor but applied to a sound that is super raw and heavy. they decided to go in a direction that is more extreme than ever, this was a pivotal moment in the trajectory of judas priest

This album is considered one of the leaders in the list of "undeservedly forgotten". In 1986, was released controversial album "Turbo" , and in 1990 Judas Priest released their greatest masterpiece - "Painkiller". Thus, "Ram It Down" was between the two most discussed albums of Judas Priest and the period "between Turbo and Painkiller" was not very noticeable. But "Ram it Down" along with most of the records of the band is a real masterpiece of metal music. Judas Priest, as promised, had returned to the roots. This album sounds much heavier and more metal than previous, although a certain legacy from the last album is remained.

The album as a whole is a bit lackluster, but "Blood Red Skies" is among Priest's best ever compositions.