Metallica - Ride The Lightning
| Release date: | 27 July 1984 |
| Style: | Bay Area thrash metal |
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01. Fight Fire With Fire
02. Ride The Lightning
03. For Whom The Bell Tolls
04. Fade To Black
05. Trapped Under Ice
06. Escape
07. Creeping Death
08. The Call Of Ktulu
Top 20 albums of 1984: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 6
02. Ride The Lightning
03. For Whom The Bell Tolls
04. Fade To Black
05. Trapped Under Ice
06. Escape
07. Creeping Death
08. The Call Of Ktulu
Top 20 albums of 1984: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 6
Reviews 
Lyrics James Hetfield - guitars, vocals
Kirk Hammett - guitars, backing vocals
Lars Ulrich - drums
Cliff Burton - bass
Additional info
Produced by Metallica.
Assisted by Flemming Rasmussen and Mark Whitaker.
Engineered by Flemming Rasmussen.
Recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark, during spring 1984.
Mastered at Masterdisk by Bob Ludwig.
Cover concept: Metallica
Cover design: AD Artists
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1984. Talk about a band and an album being so far ahead of their time that they would be hallmarks in the history of metal... Ride the Lightning was nothing less than a nuclear bomb dropped in American metal laps. We'd heard Judas Priest and Sabbath, but nothing could have prepared anyone for what was coming full force out of San Francisco in '84. Since Kill 'em All had limited success in the underground, most people still hadn't heard of the Bay area thrashers who were busy forging a new metal scene stateside. With the launch of Ride the Lightning and heavy touring, Metallica were set to take stage as one of the more brutal premier metal acts. Read more ›› |
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Metallica's second effort, called Ride The Lightning, was released in 1984. The American band verged it in an international scale, projecting that the real brutality is not merely limited through fast tempos, and other musical procedures can be tested. Ride The Lightning widely presents musical and lyrical progress, with more mature songs than Kill 'Em All. Metallica consciously developed more political and social lyrics; the songs are not about metal music itself, demonic contents or violence anymore. Solos are better-shaped and riffs are impeccable, and most importantly bass lines won't leave any space for critics. Read more ›› |
Guest review by
Iced Iñigo
Iced Iñigo
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With this album Metallica confirm their total control on Thrash Metal and their consolidation like an international band. In this album the band members were fully adapted to each other and make a more mature and considerably better musical album. The lyrics of this album are also better than in the last one, they do not speak now about headbanging, blood, and those things, in "Ride The Lightning" they speak about personal problems like in 'Fade To Black' . Other tracks are inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the movie 'The Ten Commandments' like 'Creeping Death'. Read more ›› |
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4100  |
Written by [user id=135634] on 11.10.2012 at 04:35 I just pretend it never existed 
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Account deleted Written by LeKiwi on 08.12.2014 at 08:38 You fucking kidding? The ending seriously doesn't do anything for you? "Life's for my own to live my own way." Truthfully, the one track I'd label as weak is Trapped Under Ice. Even if the only memorable part of Escape is the end, it's still better than Trapped Under Ice. Nothing at all memorable about that song.
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Written by [user id=101272] on 08.12.2014 at 17:24 I have never understood the hatred Escape's been getting. I thought it was a great track when I first got RtL in 1984 and still think it is a great track nowadays. Indeed Trapped Under Ice I have Always regarded as the weakest track of the album.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Account deleted Written by LeKiwi on 08.12.2014 at 08:38 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2014 at 17:27 I don't hate Escape, that song is just weak and uninteresting, just a filler. And the ending isn't really memorable. James sings like he's tired of it. I like all the energy and aggression of Trapped Under Ice, especially the speed metal riffing. It makes me feel more alive.
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| Ace Frawley The Spaceman Posts: 1459  |
I'm the same as Marcel - I've always thought "Trapped Under Ice" was the weakest song on the album. And in relation to the lyrics - I always thought it was an improbable scenario, and even more so now, what with global warming.
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| LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4100 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 08.12.2014 at 17:27 Personally, the cheesy chorus does it for me. I can't stand it. The rest of the song is great, but that one section put me off so much. It just doesn't fit with the vibe of the album imo.
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| Toxik Posts: 133  |
Written by [user id=101272] on 08.12.2014 at 17:24 For some reason always liked that chorus
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| Maco Pvt Funderground Posts: 3593  |
6 years ago. When I didn't know that blackened post-hardcore existed, decided to listen this album in its entirety. I was totally amazed, and since that moment my search for extreme music started. Every song was totally brilliant and memorable. I still think that nowadays. I don't care how many albums I will listen in the future. There will always be a time for this masterpiece.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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| JOPE OF STEELE Steelemeister Posts: 3333  |
An another strong album. The debut wins this slightly, though I cannot say this one is worse an album in rating, because these songs are mostly classic thrash material. It's the speed, rawness and straightforwardness that make the debut my favorite Metallica album. I WOULDN'T recommend this album to pussies either (same for the debut), but I'm sure that this album works better for that than the debut.
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 5120  |
Written by [user id=191231] on 21.10.2018 at 23:48 what is anti-semitic about Creeping Death? it's a retelling of a bible story. As to what you say about Fade to Black it's ridiculous. It's a song about depression. It does not promote anything.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by JoHn Doe on 22.10.2018 at 10:18 I was just about to say the exact same thing.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 5120 |
Written by [user id=191231] on 23.10.2018 at 03:40 It was my mistake to try and open a conversation with you. It seems to me you are just a troll, you have not joined the forum with the best intentions (to put it gently). Or is it possible that your reading comprehension is so low, the meaning of the songs you bash in the Metallica albums you posted on, is just lost on you.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Written by [user id=191231] on 23.10.2018 at 21:37 again, I do not know if you are serious or just trolling. I hope you're a troll because otherwise you look like an ignorant religious fanatic.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Written by [user id=191231] on 23.10.2018 at 21:48
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Account deleted Written by JoHn Doe on 23.10.2018 at 21:50 I like a good comedy as much as you do, but eternal damnation is no laughing matter.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
STOP THE FUCKING QUOTE TRAIN
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 5120 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 24.10.2018 at 00:06 you gotta witness the whole train wreck.
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7574  |
Written by [user id=191231] on 24.10.2018 at 01:24 Swearing is rabbi where you engaged in healings, taught in parables, and achieve Om Shanti. Don't you dare to tag "swearing" in negative form.
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| Maasai Mara Posts: 159  |
Truly comedic that this is what Metallica was once capable of.
---- You are not metal enough until you visit Kenya. The cradle of mankind, where man learnt first to work with stones and first enjoyed the sounds produced by banging stones which later influenced metal in all its sounds and genres.
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