Ride the Lightning (Remastered) [2016 Remastered Version]

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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!

This is my fav Metallica album it’s a must buy