Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Tracklist
01. Fight Fire With Fire02. 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
Line-up
James Hetfield - guitars, vocals
Kirk Hammett - guitars, backing vocals
Lars Ulrich - drums
Cliff Burton - bass
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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9.2
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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 ›› |
Rating:
9.5
9.5
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' [inspired by the theft of band's equipment]. Other tracks are inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the movie 'The Ten Commandments' like 'Creeping Death'. Read more ›› |
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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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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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I remember being 16 and going to the record store and seeing one single copy of Ride the Lightning sitting on the shelf. They will still on the Megaforce label. I would go to the record store week after week and see this album still waiting for me to add it to my collection. After hearing some Metallica on local college radio station ( mostly Kill Em All) I finally decided I had to have it. I knew that there was something special about it. I knew Metallica were destined for greatness. Before they became the huge band they are today. Ride the Lightning is the template for how to make a heavy metal album. Many have tried to duplicate and imitate. But not to many bands can master it like Metallica did with Ride the Lightning. This album is ,was ,and ever shall be a 10 in my book  
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Apart from one weak track (*cough* Escape *cough*) this album is flawless.
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Posts: 5644 Written by gckator on 01.08.2025 at 07:55 If it's got a weak song, then it's not a perfect 10.  Third place for me if i was to rank their albums, i enjoy Master... and Justice more. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Posts: 99 Written by John_Doe on 01.08.2025 at 10:14 I would give Escape a 7/10 and every other track a 10. That averages to a 9.625 (77 divided by 8). That 9.6 rounds up 
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The only reason why I give it a 9/10 is two instrumentals. I think they are well done but I am just not a fan of songs without vocals. The rest...I mean, wow, what a wealth of masterpieces. For me, it's still the best Metallica album! Faves: All including Escape but without the instrumentals.
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Posts: 5644 Written by InfernalOverkill on 08.09.2025 at 18:36 There's only one instrumental on this album. 
---- I thought the two primary purposes for the internet were cat memes and overreactions.
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Posts: 786 Written by John_Doe on 08.09.2025 at 18:50 True... why did I wrote this. 
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My personal Top 3 songs from the album: For Whom The Bell Tolls Creeping Death Fade To Black
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