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| | Daily Vault - March 23, 2005 |
 | | With the album Ram It Down, they unfortunately managed to serve up a platter that is utterly putrid from start to finish. |
 | | The group's two lead guitarists, Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing, are incapable of serving up a single measly memorable riff throughout the seemingly eternal 50 minute running time, and both are guilty of falling prey to the all-flash-and-no-substance soloing that had become standard issue in rock and metal in the '80s. |
 | | It's also essential to mention that even if the album were slightly less terrible than it is overall, there's simply no escaping how dramatically, colossally, and hugely wretched their cover is of Chuck Berry's classic anthem "Johnny B. Goode." Experience in amazement how your ears implode upon enduring the worst cover in recorded music history. |
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