Metallica - Ride the Lightning
NME.COM feature on Metallica - Ride the Lightning album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 21 December 2009
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- Fight Fire With Fire
- Ride the Lightning
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Fade to Black
- Trapped Under Ice
- Escape
- Creeping Death
- The Call of Ktulu
- For Whom The Bell Tolls (Live Version)
- Creeping Death (Live)
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Metallica - Ride the Lightning: Wikipedia Album Entry
Ride The Lightning is the second album by thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on July 27, 1984 by Megaforce Records. It was re-released in the same year on November 19 by Elektra records. In the United States alone Ride The Lightning has sold over 5 million copies.
Ride the Lightning is often hailed by fans as a classic of the thrash metal genre and a vital bridge between the band's albums Kill 'Em All and Master of Puppets, pushing the thrash metal of the debut into progressive territory more fully-realized on "Master of Puppets" and "...And Justice for All."
Ride the Lightning retains the speed of Kill 'Em All on songs like "Trapped Under Ice" and "Fight Fire with Fire", but also contains the first of Metallica's longer, more intricate tracks, such as "Fade to Black" and the nearly 9-minute closing instrumental "The Call of Ktulu". "Ride the Lightning" is the last Metallica album to credit Dave Mustaine.
Ride the Lightning was listed at #3 on a list compiled by metal-rules.com of the Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time and #5 by IGN Music on the Top 25 Metal Albums.
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Metallica - Ride the Lightning Lyrics
Metallica - Creeping Death Lyrics
Slaves, Hebrews born to serve
To the Pharaoh
Heed to his every word
Live in fear
Metallica - Escape Lyrics
Feel no pain but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
Metallica - Fade To Black Lyrics
Life it seems will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire Lyrics
Do unto others
As they've done to you
But what the hell is
This world coming to?
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls Lyrics
Make his fight on the hills in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun on they run through the endless gray
On they fight for their right, yes, but who's to say?
Metallica - Ride The Lightning Lyrics
Guilty as charged but damn it, it ain't right
There's someone else controlling me
Death in the air, strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Metallica - Trapped Under Ice Lyrics
I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore
