Turbo felt much relief two years later when the back-to-basics record Ram It Down was released on May 17, 1988. Some of the music was leftover from sessions for Turbo, which originally was a planned double-LP project called Twin Turbos, envisioned to be an even mix of pop and metal. “We were at a place where a lot of bands get when there’s suddenly an incredible outpouring of creativity and material,” frontman Rob Halfordrecalled years later. “We had a tremendous amount of songs that we wanted to try and put out together. It was intended at the time to be a