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This is their second album after the excellent Kill 'Em All, is their second step towards the dominance of a metal scene who do not know anything yet but already abuzz echo that stands there to within the birth thrash scene, a group of the potential extraordinary: Metallica.
Indeed, Ride the Lightning has everything a trial run before masterstroke Master of Puppets with his foot to the floor opening (Fight Fire with Fire), his epic compositions since become undeniable classics (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Creeping Death), its perfect power ballad (Fade to Black) and prog-thrash instrumental (The Call of Ktulu) as many steps we find a successor while just a little bit better this second long game already ruffling. Yes, mégoterons hair-splitters, there are two compositions a little behind, two that do not equal the level of excellence of a wafer if not perfect. True Trapped Under Ice and Escape, no bad songs basically do not cling so the ear, not as irremediably cause the heads of secouages ​​outburst caused by their six gilt-edged neighbors. This is the only negative with the correct production without more Flemming Rasmussen, a aeuvre otherwise flawless.
You will agree willingly, it is not enough to deprive Ride the Lightning earned its status as classic metal (what are the top five albums of Hetfield, Ulrich & Co.), an album that is generation to pass such a witness with a metal orthodoxy forever sustainable. A monument, what.

James Hetfield - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, harmony guitar solo in "Fight Fire with Fire"
Kirk Hammett - lead guitar
Cliff Burton - bass guitar, backing vocals
Lars Ulrich - drums