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Ride The Lightning (CD)

By: Metallica (Artist)
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Track Listing
DISC 1 for Ride The Lightning (CD) Album By Metallica (Artist)
1   Fight Fire With Fire
2   Ride The Lightning
3   For Whom The Bell Tolls
4   Fade To Black
5   Trapped Under Ice
6   Escape
7   Creeping Death
8   Call Of Ktulu, The
 
Review

Q (Summer/01, p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Reaffirms their status as the pre-eminent metal band of the modern era....They broke with the conventions of thrash metal to record the genre's first power ballad in 'Fade To Black'..."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "[The album included] melody, maturity and musical intelligence. It was these traits which helped them broaden metal's scope..."

Title Note

Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals, guitar); Kirk Hammett (guitar); Cliff Burton (bass); Lars Ulrich (drums).

Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark in Spring 1984.

Metallica turned the metal world on its ear with their debut album, KILL 'EM ALL and then blew its mind with the follow-up, RIDE THE LIGHTNING. The riffs and arrangements are more intricate, the lyrics are more intelligent and biting and James Hetfield's growl is meaner. The set starts out with two tunes that would have been right at home on KILL 'EM ALL, but the next two are slower and more involved. "Ride The Lightning" is a slow (by Metallica's standards) dirge about the futility of war. "Fade To Black" is a ballad (!) that builds to an instrumental coda featuring the guitar melodies that the band would later base their sound around. It's also Hetfield's first attempt at singing in tune. The most ambitious song is a dense instrumental, "The Call Of Ktulu," that starts with a single arpeggiated guitar and slowly adds layer upon layer, building in intensity until it all comes crashing down nine minutes later.

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5 out of 5 stars Ride The Lightning, April 3, 2008
By Faust
Ride The Lightning is the most classic of Metallica albums...If you dont own this album and youre going to buy one Metallica record...this is it!!!

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