Ride The

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Fight Fire With Fire": That acoustic intro belongs on a power metal album, and definitely not the opening to this song. The rest of this song is pure thrash metal, and pretty much the only pure thrash metal song on this album. If the entire album sounded like this, that'd be great, but no. 5/5 Fight Fire With Fire": I like to call this song `how to write metal riffs 101,' and "how not to sing thrash metal." I really do not understand this, but apparently I am the only Metallica fan that thinks Hetfield's singing sounds absolutely worthless on this song, but I have tried and tried to get used to him, and I cannot. Hetfield. Sounds. Terrible. Those solos sequel rather than shred as well. 3/5 Trapped Under Ice": that riff is cool, and it is nice to have a solo at the beginning rather than the end, and an excellent thrash solo at that, and as good as this song is, the intensity starts to fade a great deal halfway through the song, like, a lot. 2/5 So, this version is the most brightness and cold out there. The guitars have good explosion and you feel the bass is not cover well the music. Is little thin and flat sometimes but difinitely this isn't bad. Many people said that, this sound suits very well with the album. Personal I prefer more warmer sound with more mass like the "Elektra 1st press reissue of 84". But is cool to listen the album and like that sometimes. I mean this is the truly original version of the album. This vinyl was very difficult to find, but I feel happy that I finally found it and included it in this list because it is a very important material. I had heard many good words about the "Banzai" pressings and I always wanted to know how their products really sound and especially that.

This specific version is bad in my opinion. Low quality material with muddy guitars. Also very low end sound. The versions it lags on top end. Especially the "For whom the bell tolls" it sound buried and dead. Suresly the worst song version i have listen in my life. I remember myself from a very young age to wanted this version of the album. This green cover has always fascinated me and I imagine many out there. and I tried to find it but unfortunately as a child I did not know and bought an unnoficial version of the record. Also this vinyl is very quiet without any surface noise and they cut it loud. The music come out with amazing power and explosion. The guitars they sound as heavy as ever with incredible dirtyness and guitar deformation. Combined with the big bass, this affecting the sound and you can listen some few noises but nothing serious. Matrix/Runout:SRC (logo) MASTERDISK HW STE-60396-A-3 1-1 / SRC (logo) STE-60396-B-3 MASTERDISK HW 1-1

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Not their best. Make no mistake, this is a great, highly ambitious album that certainly has its moments, but as the follow up to Kill Em All, it is rather underwhelming.

Overall i do not surpised if someone tell me that, this is his favorite album pressing. If you living in Europe, this is a must have material to have the album.Anyway after so many years i finded one copy and i'm very happy for that. But here we are talking about sound quality. All in all, this is an excellent material to have and listen the album. Is much better than any CD out there and can competing any good pressing in that list. Also is a great collective material because is the only one with the "Megaforce" original, that has the "Tom Coyne" mastering.

Anyway if you want to have the mass and the rich sound like has this version, go and get the "Elektra" 1st press that comes on a single LP and it's more cheap more natural/clean as a pressing and also has the better mastering in my opinion.

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So i suggest you to get the awesome and clean "European" version that was made from the same mastering plants at "Masterdisk" and ignore this one unless you are collector like me. The first thing that bothers me with this album is how very few moments of thrash metal are on here, and yeah, at the time this album was made, thrash metal barely existed as a term, let alone had a definition, but a few of the songs barely sound made by the same band that made Kill Em All. I'm convinced that (the songs) "Escape," and "Creeping Death," weren't made by Metallica, but by a symphonic metal band playing speed metal. This is what I mean when I say this album is disappointing compared to Kill Em All, which is an album that I love. Ride the Lightning is an ambitious metal album that tries to do a little too much, and I honestly think Metallica lost their way with this one. Anyway this version of the album is ok. And i speak for the sound quality. The sound is ultra rich and you can feel it your space very easily. The guitars are heavy with big deformation and the drums are very powerful and very natural. Also this version has big bass and you need to low your bass a little bit. It remind me a lot the "Elektra 1st press" on that part. "Elektra" was more natural and more atmospheric sound with more depth. I also want to say that i'm not big fan for this specific version. The sound does not remind you of the original sound you grew up with. The extra bass covers the guitars and the atmosphere of the album. This version sounds different and fine but also a bit weird and personally, I miss a lot of things from the original sound. This pressing isn't good at all. Over the years I see many people on the net to telling that "MFN" has decent pressings but I believe these people they never listened the album from some other serious pressings. Two months after its release, Elektra Records signed Metallica to a multi-year deal and reissued the album.

Overall this is a great and very rare collective material and nothing more. Here you can not find the best sounding version of the album. Better go and buy 3 - 4 "Elektra" versions of the album than this one. This pressing is the most dirty, atmospheric, dark version of the album i have listen to. The mass here is insane and the bass punch your face all the time. You can notice that when the "Ride the Lightning" song starts. The bass go straight in your face and try to destroy you. And the depth behind is incredible. The album was recorded in three weeks with producer Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The overall recording costs were paid by Metallica's European label Music for Nations because Megaforce was unable to cover it.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. This pressing seems much more noisy with more distortions here and there in the all songs. In some songs barely you can listen the music and if we compare it with the "European" version, this is much worst version to own. I have it in "NM" condition and i can heard many distortions on the songs. All in all, still this version it sound little colder and sharp as usual for a "Direct Metal Mastering" vinyl but they did great job here and i believe is a great pressing to own the album.