Metallica Ride The Lightning
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FR33L0RD
January 28th 2022


6400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Agreed

Kusangii
February 11th 2022


8533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

There's some kind of magic in this guitar tone

DominionMM1
February 11th 2022


21560 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

marshall bruh

deathschool
February 11th 2022


29489 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

It’s all the lightning

bloc
February 11th 2022


70880 Comments


JCM800 is the key

FR33L0RD
February 11th 2022


6400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

haha, nice

sizeofanocean
March 10th 2022


3767 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Goated era. They could do no wrong up until AJFA (production issues aside)

Koris
Emeritus
March 10th 2022


22631 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Absolutely. No matter what came after, 80s Metallica will always be legendary

manosg
Emeritus
March 10th 2022


12715 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed. It sucks to see them becoming just a cash cow, but their '80s run is incredible. Even their '90s output is pretty good.

Casavir
March 10th 2022


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Fight Fire With Fire is easily their best opener. Borderline unprecedented and tight riffing for its time and it's propulsive in ways that Battery likely is not by comparison. Only Blackened quite compares.

Eakflanderyof
March 10th 2022


6687 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, hard for me to pick between fight fire with fire and blackened. Battery is the weakest of the 3 for me

kkarron
March 11th 2022


1846 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Metallica is all about that James' downpicking goodness. I mean, we all know about Lars and Cliff's bass playing was largely hyped up after his death... and let's be honest, Kirk is one boring as hell lead guitarist... but when James starts chugging along with his perfect tempo downpicking thrash riffage, it's marvellous.

FR33L0RD
March 11th 2022


6400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Hell yeah! Such a fantastic rhythm playing guitarist.

BigPleb
March 11th 2022


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Kirk is definitely a boring guitarist, very sloppy live as well.

James on the other hand is a monster, never misses a note.

Kusangii
March 11th 2022


8533 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Doing vocals on top of that too at higher bpm than studio version live is pretty nuts

DungeonBoy
March 11th 2022


10298 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

say what you want about Kirk, but his lead style is pretty iconic. Don't really know of any other lead guitarist that utilizes (abuses) that wah wah pedal to the same degree

bloc
March 11th 2022


70880 Comments


Because everyone who came after him knows it sucks

budgie
March 11th 2022


42375 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

abusing a wah wah pedal in leads is like dumping a1 sauce all over your steak to hide the fact that you cant cook it right

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
March 11th 2022


19075 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

wouldn't say he started seriously abusing the wah until he met bob rock, only really a handful of songs on the first four albums has it



noticed nowadays live he uses the wah on every single lead he plays... even on songs and parts where he didn't use it on the albums

Eakflanderyof
March 11th 2022


6687 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Kirk isn't the most technically proficient lead guitarist but there are so many thrash guitarists that have basically copied his soloing style



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