kill em all was certainly not bad, but the sound too elementary, and a little too basic compounds are preferred me what he ride the lightning. on this second album, everything is seen in large, the sound of the disc, the songs (which are being scaled) and the group is expanding its horizon: metallica no longer limited to the basic speed metal in its music and lyrics performed on the fundamental kill'em all but exceeds its premise by injecting a Master welcome and arrangements that I qualify for loans to classical music. I rectify the shooting, when I speak of classic, this is not the harpsichord intro in the brutal fight fire with fire I have in mind, but the sensation of listening to this album wagner metal release! without being the most successful work of the four horsemen (low escape trapped under ice and are just dispensable ...), the fact remains that ride the lightning is to me the most sincere metallica album because ambitious without being too slick. six titles on which I have not médis are simply among the great classics of the group, fade to black, for whom the bell tolls and creeping death in mind! I would say that if we were to have only one album of Metallica, it would be this one! In any case, it is with ride the lightning that we must enter the world of metallica ...