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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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9162  |
Maybe it's the nostalgia of this album, but it really showcases how good Metallica can (and used to) be. Fight Fire With Fire is an amazing opener.
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| Majesty1911 Posts: 194  |
Metallica's best album, head over all other in band catalog. "Trapped Under Ice" and "Escape" just meh, everything else - excellent songs!
---- Glory to the Nation!
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