METALLICA "Ride The Lightning" /CD/

“Ride the Lightning” is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on July 27, 1984 through the independent record label Megaforce Records and was re-released on November 19, 1984 by Elektra Records. “Ride the Lightning” was certified gold by the RIAA on November 5, 1987 and was most recently certified 5x platinum on June 9, 2003. “Ride the Lightning” retains the speed of “Kill 'Em All” on songs like "Trapped Under Ice" and "Fight Fire with Fire", but also contains the first of Metallica's longer, more intricate tracks, such as "Fade to Black" and the nearly 9-minute closing instrumental "The Call of Ktulu". "Ride the Lightning" is the last Metallica album to credit former member, Dave Mustaine.
“Ride the Lightning” was listed at number 3 on a list compiled by metal-rules.com of the “Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time” and #5 by “IGN Music on the Top 25 Metal Albums”. “Q magazine”: (Summer/01, p. 127) - 5 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."
Re-release 1989. Made in Germany.
Metallica/Phonogram/Vertigo, 1984/1989 (838 140-2)