Now it’s not “Fight Fire with Fire” speed but it is still pretty fast.
The other speedy song on here is “Creeping Death”.
#Album or cover metallica ride the lightning full
“Trapped Under Ice” is another full speed thrasher from beginning to end that has some awesome gang vocals. “Ride the Lightning” is a pretty mid-paced song that turns into pure thrash during the solo. “Fight Fire with Fire” is arguably their fastest song. It’s not as fast as their debut but it still gets the job done. They are not as high as “Kill Em’ All” but still maintain that angry James Hetfield that I love.Īs far as speed goes, this album still delivers. I don’t see how anyone could not like his early vocals. The bass is audible but could be a bit louder. The drums sound pretty amazing except for the fact that the bass drum doesn’t exist except for when he hits a crash but it’s not a big deal. The production on RTL is still very raw but it is a step up. Starting with the produ ction, it’s probably a little better than the debut. While their debut is still my favorite, their second album is still godly among the beginnings of thrash metal. While the alcoholism was still there, “Ride the Lightning” shows more maturity in their writing styles. “Kill Em’ All” was pretty much straight alcoholic thrash metal. “Ride the Lightning” displays excellent song writing but doesn’t leave out the thrash Metallica was so good at making. Unfamiliar at the time when I was around 12 years old, I decided I would take a listen and I am forever changed because of it. And found out that, WOAH, Metallica was one of the founders of a genre called thrash metal. The Black Album was it for me until I decided to do some digging. Metallica will always have a special place in my heart as the band that got me into metal. 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. It's also Hetfield's first attempt at singing in tune. "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. "Ride The Lightning" is a slow (by Metallica's standards) dirge about the futility of war.
The set start s out with two tunes that would have been right at home on KILL 'EM ALL, but the next two are slower and more involved. The riffs and arrangements are more intricate, the lyrics are more intelligent and biting and James Hetfield's growl is meaner. 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. Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark in Spring 1984. This shift became the foundational element of almost every track of Ride the Lightning (save for band-hated track “Escape” more on that one later).Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals, guitar) Kirk Hammett (guitar) Cliff Burton (bass) Lars Ulrich (drums). Ride the Lightning tunes like “Fight Fire With Fire” and “Fade to Black” can be seen as evolutions of this stylistic dalliance, elaborating on the sense of atmospherics that were present in those earlier songs compared to the relatively straight-ahead thrashing heavy metal fare of songs like “Whiplash” and “Jump in the Fire”. This change would be inexplicable if not for Kill ‘Em All songs like “Four Horsemen”, “No Remorse”, and “Phantom Lord”, more programmatic tunes that sought to echo the epics-in-miniature of NWOBHM bands like Diamond Head and more obscure groups like Savage. Kill ‘Em All leaned heavily on elements of boogie beats nabbed from ’70s Judas Priest and the heavy swung feel to fast-paced riffs that Dave Mustaine would eventually take with him to Megadeth, but Ride the Lightning, released July 27th, 1984, almost wholly struck the swung-boogie vibe from its mostly slower-paced riffs, focusing instead on a near neo-classical sense of grandeur plucked more from the pages of groups like Rush, Rainbow, Blue Öyster Cult and even Priest’s more grandiloquent epics than bands like Sweet or even the more rock ‘n’ roll end of hardcore punk, a genre whom the members of the band were vocal fans. The first four Metallica albums are among the genre’s most powerful and enduring documents, and while the band’s debut LP, Kill ‘Em All, was a landmark for thrash metal, Ride the Lightning presented a quantum leap in terms of songwriting and structure.
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