"I remember thinking, 'Wow, what a great song title.' I told James, and it ended up being a song and the album title."ģ. "There was this one passage where this guy was on death row said he was waiting to 'ride the lightning,'" the guitarist recalled to Rolling Stone. As the story goes, Hammett was reading the horror master's book The Stand, when inspiration struck. Lovecraft ("Call of Ktulu"), as well as, more obliquely, Stephen King. Metallica have drawn on literary sources throughout their career - just on Ride the Lightning alone, they reference Ernest Hemingway ("For Whom the Bell Tolls") and H.P. Kirk Hammett came up with the title "Ride the Lightning" while reading Stephen King's The Stand We knew that was going to be the opening track. We heard it and stuck it onto 'Fight,' and it worked fantastic. He had a really good grasp of playing the guitar, and a good grasp of classical modulations. "Cliff wrote that on down-tuned acoustic guitar. "That acoustic piece was Cliff's!" Kirk Hammett revealed to Guitar World in 2016, referring to Metallica's groundbreaking, multi-talented bass player. Cliff Burton wrote the acoustic intro to "Fight Fire With Fire" In that spirit, we revisited Ride track by track and bashed out the following bits of trivia and insight.ġ. "Just bashing it out always led to a more natural sounding performance to me." Indeed, sometimes "bashing it out" is the way to go. "By the time we recorded Master of Puppets, the days of just bashing it out were much fewer than in the Ride the Lightning days," guitarist Kirk Hammett told Rolling Stone in 2014, looking back on the album.
The band would one-up things once again with Master of Puppets, but Ride has its special charm and historical place. They shat all over the concept of the " sophomore jinx" with Ride the Lightning, a sophisticated, diverse piece of art that gave the world timeless cuts including "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Creeping Death," "Fade to Black" and the title track. Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All was a bruising battle-cry of a mission statement and set the bar high for its follow-up, but Metallica were undaunted.
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