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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. The riffs and arrangements are more intricate, the lyrics are more intelligent and biting and James Hetfield's growl is meaner. The set starts out with two tunes that would have been right at home on KILL 'EM ALL, but the next two are slower and more involved. "Ride The Lightning" is a slow (by Metallica's standards) dirge about the futility of war. "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. It's also Hetfield's first attempt at singing in tune. 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.
Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark in Spring 1984.
Metallica: James Hetfield (vocals, guitar); Kirk Hammett (guitar); Cliff Burton (bass); Lars Ulrich (drums).
Q (Summer/01, p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Reaffirms their status as the pre-eminent metal band of the modern era....They broke with the conventions of thrash metal to record the genre's first power ballad in 'Fade To Black'..."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "[The album included] melody, maturity and musical intelligence. It was these traits which helped them broaden metal's scope..." Metallica Ride The Lightning Songs Ride The Lightning Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews An awesome album
When stood up against Metallica's other albums, I view this one as the weakling that sits in the corner that has great potential. In fact, this album is just purely amazing, and in my opinion, their second best. The acoustic intro seemed slightly childish when I first heard it, and holds nothing to the Battery intro, but it grew on me. Anyway, it just serves as a distraction for what's coming. Fight Fire With Fire is mad crazy with shredding guitars and deathly black lyrics. Not one of their greater first tracks, but still a favorite. Ride The Lightning's riff does not seem very impressive to me, but it is an absolutely amazing concept song that's up there almost near One (but still falls very short). For Whom The Bell Tolls is a great war commentary. Fade To Black is one of Metallica's most heartfelt songs, and one of their best. Trapped Under Ice is a sensational metaphorical headbanger. Escape doesn't have one of my favorite riffs but has some great anti-authority lyrics. Creeping Death is one of Metallica's greatest concept songs ever as well, written in the pint of view of Moses' last plague that kills the first born son...who else would write about that? The Call Of Ktulu is a beautiful instrumental. It gets a bit boring halfway through, but there's a really great solo, and ends the album very nicely.
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Landmark Thrash Release
Of course, "Kill Em All" was Metallica's debut, and an amazing one it was. However, this album is an improvement both in overall atmosphere and lyrically. While the song structures are noticeably more concise than the predecessor, Mustaine's solos are sometimes missed. However, this album offers a much smoother, more triumphant delivery. The songwriting, lyrics, and singing have shown tremendous growth, and will culminate on their masterpiece, "Master Of Puppets".
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Very electrifying, although "Kill 'Em All" is their best, this one definately rocks. Ask my neighbors, they hate it. HAHAHAHAHA!
Submitted by livemiasey (Texas)
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This album isn't bad, considering i'm a big metal freak. It starts with the crunching Fight fire with Fire and the title track. Then the best song on the album For Whom the Bell Tolls. And a signature song in their catalog in Fade to Black. Other than the 1st 4 songs the rest isn't so impressive. If they had a halfway decent singer (James is terrible) they would've been a much better band to listen to.
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Classic Metal
Better produced than "Kill'em All", and alot more melodic. A more epic sound than before with better lyrics. Definitely a Metal Masterpiece. These Metal pioneers are surely the Masters of Metal.
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UB40's first recordings arrived at the height of the DIY movement in postpunk England, when independent labels flourished. Many of the songs on this collection later appeared on their first album "Signing Off", but this unique disc compiles the tracks of the singles that lead to that release. Included is the single versions of "The Earth Dies Screaming", "Dream A Lie", "Tyler" and "King". Unlike Madness and the ska revivalists, UB40 not only represented integration of the members, but a commitment to a genuine reggae ethic, with a healthy dose o' dub thrown in for good measure.
Now this is what we want: most of UB40's debut album Signing Off, plus the 12" single that was included with initial copies of the set, coupled with their first three double A-sided singles. So far removed is the group's earliest work from their later sound that even the most culturally minded of reggae fans will want this record in their collection. UB40's later albums rarely equaled the strength of their singles, even as their later singles lost much of the bite and creativity of their predecessors. Thus, this set captures them at their most militant and experimental. The trio of singles -- "Food for Thought"/"King", "My Way of Thinking"/"I Think It's Going to Rain", and "The Earth Dies Screaming"/"Dream Is a Lie" -- reveal the inner workings of the group, as they play with styles, shifting back and forth from more Jamaica-fied sounds to almost breezy pop, winding into smokey jazz clubs, onto the dancefloor, and off into the dreamiest of milieus. On their full length, the band furthered their musical adventures with both ...
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