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* NewSoundAlbum: The band noticeably slowed down their sound, but became much more technical as compared to Music/KillEmAll, which had much faster but simpler riffs. This would continue through Music/MasterOfPuppets and Music/AndJusticeForAll, before their next NewSoundAlbum Music/{{Metallica}} (The Black Album).

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* NewSoundAlbum: The band noticeably slowed down their sound, but became much more technical as compared to Music/KillEmAll, which had much faster but simpler riffs. This would continue through Music/MasterOfPuppets and Music/AndJusticeForAll, Music/AndJusticeForAll1988, before their next NewSoundAlbum Music/{{Metallica}} (The Black Album).
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* NewSoundAlbum: The band noticeably slowed down their sound, but became much more technical as compared to Kill 'Em All, which had much faster but simpler riffs. This would continue through Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All, before their next NewSoundAlbum Metallica (The Black Album).

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* NewSoundAlbum: The band noticeably slowed down their sound, but became much more technical as compared to Kill 'Em All, Music/KillEmAll, which had much faster but simpler riffs. This would continue through Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All, Music/MasterOfPuppets and Music/AndJusticeForAll, before their next NewSoundAlbum Metallica Music/{{Metallica}} (The Black Album).

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''Ride the Lightning'' is the second studio album by Music/{{Metallica}}, released in 1984. It has sold 6 million copies circa 2012.

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''Ride the Lightning'' is the second studio album by Music/{{Metallica}}, released in 1984.1984 through Megaforce Records and reissued two months later through Creator/ElektraRecords as the band's first release on the latter label. It has sold 6 million copies circa 2012.










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* Music/JasonNewsted - bass, vocals [[note]] On the live bonus tracks only [[/note]]


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* Music/JasonNewsted - bass, vocals
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Fan favourites include "Fight Fire with Fire", the TitleTrack, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Fade to Black" and "Creeping Death".

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Fan favourites include "Fight Fire with With Fire", the TitleTrack, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Fade to Black" and "Creeping Death".



* ApocalypseHow: "Fight Fire with Fire" is about this via nuclear annihilation.

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* ApocalypseHow: "Fight Fire with With Fire" is about this via nuclear annihilation.



* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Fight Fire with Fire", where it is implied to violence to end violence will eventually lead everybody to their doom.

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* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Fight Fire with With Fire", where it is implied to violence to end violence will eventually lead everybody to their doom.



* {{Revenge}}: "Fight Fire with Fire" is about how this would backfire in the context of nuclear warfare.

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* {{Revenge}}: "Fight Fire with With Fire" is about how this would backfire in the context of nuclear warfare.
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# "Fight Fire with Fire" (4:45)

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# "Fight Fire with With Fire" (4:45)
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* AndIMustScream: "Trapped Under Ice" is sung from the perspective of a HumanPopsicle who is still conscious.

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* AndIMustScream: "Trapped Under Ice" is sung from the perspective of a HumanPopsicle who is still conscious. The title track also incorporates this.
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* FilkSong: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (Creator/ErnestHemingway).
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Creeping Death", about the ten plagues of Egypt. Though it was inspired by the band watching ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', and got its title from Cliff saying "Whoa, it's like creeping death!" during the newborn slaughter scene.

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* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Creeping Death", about the ten plagues of Egypt. Though it was inspired by the band watching ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', and got its title from Cliff saying "Whoa, it's like creeping death!" during the newborn slaughter scene.
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* PowerBallad: "Fade to Black", Metallica's first one.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Ride the Lightning''.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Ride ''"Die! By my Hand! I creep across the Lightning''.]]
land! Killing first born man!"'']]
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly an 8, with "Fade to Black" being a 6, and "Escape" being a 7. "Fight Fire with Fire" reaches a 9.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The album's title track is about a prisoner sitting in the electric chair, and the unbearable anxiety of waiting for the executioner to finally throw the switch. The final lines (before a final repetition of the chorus), however, raise the possibility that it was AllJustADream and that the protagonist wakes up safe and sound from his nightmare; alternatively, they can be read as the chair finally being powered on, with the protagonist screaming in pain as he's electrocuted.
--> Wakened by horrid scream\\
Freed from this frightening dream
* AndIMustScream: "Trapped Under Ice" is sung from the perspective of a HumanPopsicle who is still conscious.
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As per "Is this an example?" thread, the song's dark and doomy tone fits the lyrics.


* LyricalDissonance: "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Although it's about [[WarIsHell the futility of war]], it's a kick ass song that gets one's adrenaline pumping.
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--> ''The final curtain all I see\\

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--> ''The final curtain all call I see\\
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* EpicIntstrumentalOpener: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has a two minute long intro.

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* EpicIntstrumentalOpener: EpicInstrumentalOpener: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has a two minute long intro.

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