Ride the Lightning (Remastered) [2016 Remastered Version]

Now I believe that up to Load, and Garage Inc, and you can say St.Anger is there last true Metallica album before they started to take the turn for the worst, but out of the 4 albums from the 80’s we got from them, this is my favorite album. The opening song states the hold tone of this album, the calm melodies of the harp, to straight up yelling about nuking the planet, it kick, I love the tempo and rhythm of the whole album. Now for Fade to Black, Creeping Death, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, they all have some kicking riffs like the 3:30 second mark of Fade to Black, it build up case tention to go with what sounds like a chain saw, FWBT and it opening, and the same for Ride the Lightning. Now my favorite songs goes out to Escape, at first I could care less, it I like what the opening does and the whole image and mindset I get from it. Now I feel like some of the riffs are wrote by Dave Mustang, and that they were wrote before he got kicked out, and I’m not to huge into Megadeath, but there is a very unique sound of the guitars, that ain’t hers in any other album. Now Master of Puppets is also good, and And Justice for All, but every song on this goes hard with the tones of death, treason , drunk, and giving up hope. I have nothing more to say other than, this is one heck of a album, and if you want to buy a album for $10.00 then I think that your search has ended as soon as I type the period… now.

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There is heavy metal before Ride the Lightning, and there is metal after Ride the Lightning. Kill ‘Em All alerted everyone in the metal scene that the innovations of Judas Priest and Motörhead along with other NWOBHM bands were about to be outdone by an Bay Area thrash outfit that combined those innovations with hardcore punk. On RTL, that alert became a full on storm. Still using Dave Mustaine’s contributions, Metallica carved out a new path for heavy metal music that stood in direct contrast with the glam metal scene and opened up the doors for a new level of extremity that would not even take ten years to develop. From Fight Fire With Fire onwards, the listener even today gets pulverized. It still holds up though it sounds old, and Fade to Black remains Metallica’s greatest ballad with its gut wrenching emotion. Creeping Death is self explanatory, For Whom the Bell Tolls instantly recognizable, and Escape being underrated. However no track is as underrated as Trapped Under Ice, which pushed so many limits in technicality and speed back in 1984. Everybody says Master of Puppets is the best Metallica album, but I personally prefer Ride the Lightning because without it, MOP wouldn’t matter or exist. Plus it broke far more ground than MOP, and changed metal forever. And the crazy thing is, so did MOP. RTL and MOP are the two best Metallica albums you’ll ever hear, and hugely influential on everything else that came after in extreme metal.

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When you first start the album it puts you through a calming acoustic riff followed by bells? And then it fades and Lars gets nuts on the symbols and James punches you in the face with a unexpected frikin fast riff then it’s fast and frikin fun. I love the guitar imitation of a falling atomic bomb at the end. Defines all my expectations of a thrash metal album. I still never get why call of ktulu was just an instrumental tho. Definitely on my top five favorite Metallica albums ever. 1: Master Of Puppets 2: Black Album 3: ride the lightning 4: Kill Em All 5: …And Justice For All

This, And master of puppets are the best metallica albums in my opinion.

This is one of the best metal albums in the world, and Metallica is the best band IN THE WORLD.

Perfect album

This album has a couple really good songs but it gets blown out of the water from the mindless Metallica drones! The best song on here is Fade To Black!