Given that I grew up listening to Ride The Lightning, the record is deeply embedded in my mind and the title track’s lyrics “burning in my brain” sum up well how well I know the album.Īccordingly, I admit having a somewhat biased view of the record but when I listen to it now, I realize that a couple of songs are a bit weaker than the rest. Whatever the case, I still get goose bumps hearing it. While I would categorize “Fade To Black” as a “heavier” ballad these days, back then, I didn’t see it that way since the song was so heavy and does pick up quite a bit as it goes on. These days, “Fade To Black” is my favorite off Ride The Lightning. While “Trapped Under Ice” continues to be one of my favorites on Ride The Lightning, the cream did rise to the top and I’ve got to say that “For Whom The Bells Toll” and “Creeping Death” are some of the best heavy metal anthems out there. One of my friends even pinned photos on his bedroom’s ceiling but I (or perhaps my mother) thought that was a little excessive. Eventually, I ran out of room on my bedroom walls so I started evaluating if the potential incumbent photos were better than the ones currently pinned to my bedroom walls. I would play an album over and over while reading the latest magazines such as Circus and Hit Parader, and while cutting up the various photos to paste on my bedroom walls.
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It almost boggles my mind how much free time that I had when I was a youngster. In fact, I believe that I named “Trapped Under Ice” as my favorite song back when it seemed important to me to list out my favorite songs from each band on an almost daily basis.
Since I was not familiar with Metallica at all when I first listened to Ride The Lightning, the song that made the biggest impression on me was actually “Trapped Under Ice” with its furious guitar solos throughout the track. This would of course be a big mistake as Ride The Lightning is not a one dimensional thrash record and in fact, many of the songs on the record have more than stood the test of time with usually three out of the eight tracks (“For Whom The Bells Toll”, “Creeping Death” along with either “Fade To Black” or “Ride The Lightning”) still in Metallica‘s live set to this day. Back then, I think that I was a lot more open to any new sounds since if I was hearing Metallica‘s Ride The Lightning today and particularly the opening track “Fight Fire With Fire”, I would likely dismiss the entire record as some sort of basic thrash metal album with little to offer in terms of melodies. In fact, I knew nothing about Metallica when my former elementary schoolmate Brian provided me with the three aforementioned albums. In other words, I listened to the record with no preconceived notions of what a band or label had identified as the lead song or single for the record. I point this out because when I got my “taped” copy of Ride The Lightning, I was not aware of what were the singles for that album. Metallica are now a household name and likely now the most popular heavy metal band in the world but back in 1984, they were a stubborn bunch who refused to release any videos in support of their albums. However, I have already mentioned this in two prior concert reviews ( Metallica in 2017 and Armored Saint in 2018) so I will reminisce about something else. Funny enough, I was going to start this album review celebrating the 35th year anniversary of the release of Metallica‘s Ride The Lightning record with a tale of how that album along with Armored Saint‘s March of The Saint and W.A.S.P.‘s self-titled debut album were the first “taped” albums that I got in cassette format and records #4 to 7 of my very small hard rock and heavy metal collection back in September 1984.
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