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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to "Fight Fire with Fire" fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ("Fight Fire with Fire"), execution by electric chair (the title track), and drowning ("Trapped Under Ice"). Interestingly, the album's best track is "Fade to Black," a slower, introspective song about suicide. There's also "Creeping Death," which remains a concert favorite. An excellent mix of rapid-fire guitar riffs, rip-roaring solos, and singer James Hetfield's trademark growl, this is thrash metal at its finest. -- Genevieve Williams | | | | Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to "Fight Fire with Fire" fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ("Fight Fire with Fire"), electric-chair execution (the title track), and drowning ("Trapped Under Ice"). Interestingly, the best track on this album is probably "Fade to Black," a slower, more introspective song about suicide. There's also "Creeping Death," which remains a concert favorite. An excellent mix of rapid-fire guitar riffs, rip-roaring solos, and singer James Hetfield's trademark growl, this is thrash metal at its finest. Very highly recommended. --Genevieve Williams | |
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| RIDE THE LIGHTNING ROCKS. ONE OF THE BEST METAL ALBUMS AROUND!! | |
| | Ride the Lightning has to be considered one of the best metal albums of all-time. Fade to BLack, For WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and Creeping death are the best songs on the album and one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all-time. Metallica produced a great album.
This is classic heavy metal and Metallica is the #1 heavy metal band of all-time and For whom the bell tolls is the best heavy metal song of all-time.
RIDE THE LIGHTNING IS A METAL MASTERPIECE.
FORGET LED ZEPPLIN AND BLACK SABBATH. METALLICA IS THE BEST METAL BAND OF ALL-TIME.
| | | | Greatest metal album ever recorded. Hammett's solo in the title track has to be faster than the speed of light itself.
| | | FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE- a great opener, suberb riffs from james 9.5/10
RIDE THE LIGHTNING- all around awesome song, drags on a little long 9.3/10
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS- a great track, awesome lyrics and riffs 9.9/10
FADE TO BLACK- the best track on the cd by far. 10/10
TRAPPED UNDER ICE- a good song, just not their best 8.8/10
ESCAPE- another well done song, not a great hit with me 7.9/10
CREEPING DEATH- awesome song, lyrics/riffs all good 9.1/10
THE CALL OF KTULU- very well done, nice closer 9.4/10
| | This albums rockssss !!!!!!!!! | |
| | Well, I have no words to say how I like this album..! I can't stop listening to it, it makes me feel so good! All the songs have really deep lyrics and James' voice has improved a lot! I think that it's not a surprise, but Fade to black was, still, and will always be my favorite song ever. I can listen to it all day on repeat lol :) Although, the lyrics are touching me so much that sometimes it makes me cry like a baby! Anyway, here are my rates:
Fight fire with fire: 9.9/10 (Nice intro!)
Ride the lightning: 10/10 (Great lyrics that fit entirely with the music)
For whom the bell tolls: 11/10 (Sooo nice this song!! I'm in ecstasy when I hear the bells tolling at the begining)
Fade to black: Oh my god, I don't have any rate for that song because it would be too high! *Death greets me warm*
Trapped under ice: 9.9/10 (We can really imagine that we're trapped under ice)
Escape: 9.9/10 (I love the lyrics, they're like an exit for some people)
Creeping death: 11/10 (Wooooww that song litteraly kicks ass! I could have died the first time I listened to it)
The call of Ktulu: 9.5/10 (Nice instrumental but it is a bit long... I rather like Pulling teeth, don't ask me why)
| | | | I am 100% convinced that this is the greatest metal album ever made. If your new to Metallica, this is the one to get. here's why RTL is better than all of metallica's other CD's Let's face it. Metallica's 1983 debut album Kill Em All had absolutely crapass vocals by Hetfeld and the songs like Seek&Destroy get repetitive after a few listens. Good album nonetheless. Master of Puppets is hailed by many as metallica's masterpiece and rightfully so. Everything on it from tracks 1-8 is excellent. Ride the lightning is just pure perfection. And Justice for all is another excellent album but is the ultimate endurance test. Come on we're talking an average of over 7 minutes per song. Not to mention horrible production. You just feel so much more passion on RTL. The Black Album...Metallica's commercial turn. Well at least the world finally noticed them. Good place to start if your new to them but no killer solos like Ride. Load is where metallica's sound changed drastically. Tough to compare this to Ride The Lightning. All I can say is that they were better at their old stuff. Reload is pretty much the same thing as Load. Therefore I could care less. I think we all know the story with St. Anger. CRAP If metallica were graded on this album they'd probably be lucky to get an F. Ride The Lightning destroys this CD. Finally, Ride The Lightning has it all. Speed metal, ballads, mid paced songs, instrumentals,(even a pop-like song with escape), killer riffs, and mindblowing solos. Only Metallica could play like this and like every other band, they'll never surpass this landmark effort.
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