Listen to metallica ride the lightning portable#

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Listen to metallica ride the lightning portable#

Ride The Lightning is the second album by thrash metal band Metallica. Released in 1984, Ride The Lightning would go on to sell over 5 million copies and become beloved amongst fans myself included Ride The Lightning has always been one of my favourite Metallica albums and in the 90s the 1996 reissue on Vertigo/Mercury - Cat: 838 140-2 CD went everywhere with me as I was fortunate enough to own a portable CD player. Now it has been suggested, based on the final pre-chorus, that this narrative is actually a dream the singer is having. But that theory is debatable. What is definitely the case is that the singer is trying to imagine what it would feel like to be electrocuted as a death row inmate.Īnd in some regards yes, you can say he’s being critical of the criminal justice system the process. But if that is the intended point, such displeasure obviously did not prevent the song’s writers from sparing its main character in the least. So perhaps the main way they are critiquing the system is via the quite-graphic description of this person’s execution, as in presenting it as being inhuman. Listen free to Metallica Ride the Lightning (Fight Fire With Fire, Ride the Lightning and more). Owing to this, he is begging “God” to miraculously intervene to save his life. But at the end of the day he is in fact electrocuted. So basically what is going on is that the listener is being treated to this inmate’s thought processes leading up to and during his execution. Thus the term “Ride the Lightning”, which Kirk Hammett derived from Stephen King’s 1978 novel “The Stand”, actually alludes to the idea of such a person being electrocuted (as it did in the book). And directly prior to the occasion, he definitely wants to “get it over with”. But at the same time, as illustrated by the bridge, he does “not want to die”.