Metallica "Ride the Lightning"

A year after their first effort, "Kill 'em all" 4 Bay Area returned to the charge with their second delivery, "Ride the Lightning". And the surprise was going to be size. If "Kill 'em all" was the creation of pure thrash and hard, speedés riffs and non-stop aggression, changes in one short year and the group would be hallucinating ... so much so that the fringe The most extreme of the group's fans cry golds already treason. And for good reason ... here Metallica have chosen to slow down the tempo, work harmonies and ho height of deceit, include a power ballad. Difficult to say that this is indeed the same band playing as the post-adolescent rage so metal warrior has been replaced by a compositional talent all there is more adult. Hetfield has almost learned to sing, his lyrics often became cared for, the catchy choruses (that of "Escape" recall almost Maiden), serious themes (death penalty on "Ride the Lightning" war on "For whom the bell tolls "suicide on" Fade to black ", ...), the band's music takes an almost epic scale, including the magisterial closing instrumental album," The call of ktulu "etc., etc. ... to believe that fresh air from Denmark where the group was then exiled for recording gave him wings. Once again, the result would be better than in ...