Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Artist: Metallica
Album: Ride the Lightning
Type: Full-length
Release date: July 27th, 1984
Catalog ID: MRI 769
Label: Megaforce Records
Format: 12" vinyl (33⅓ RPM)
MP3 | 320Kbps | 47:27 | 108Mb

Tracklist:
1. Fight Fire with Fire  04:45
2. Ride the Lightning  06:36
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls  05:10
4. Fade to Black  06:57
5. Trapped Under Ice  04:04
6. Escape  04:24
7. Creeping Death  06:35
8. The Call of Ktulu  08:53  instrumental

The first 10,000 copies include a "Metal Militia" insert.

Dave Mustaine gets a co-songwriting credit for "Ride the Lightning" and "The Call of Ktulu."

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is titled after the book by Ernest Hemingway, and borrows its subject matter from one passage.

"Creeping Death" is lyrically about the biblical story of the plagues of Egypt.

"The Call of Ktulu" is titled after a H.P. Lovecraft story, although the original spelling is "Cthulhu".

Recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark during the spring of 1984.
Mastered at Frankford Wayne in New York City, New York.

 

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