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Ride the Lightning
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Second of the twelve Metallica records held here. It came three years into a run that began in 1981. 1984 is a year into Bay Area thrash, which this tree dates from 1983. It is one of the four records Bay Area thrash is listed as starting from.
From Wikipedia
Ride the Lightning is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record label Megaforce Records. The album was recorded in three weeks with producer Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The artwork, based on a concept by the band, depicts an electric chair being struck by lightning flowing from the band logo. The title was taken from a passage in Stephen King's novel The Stand, in which a character uses the phrase to refer to execution by electric chair.
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