Ride the Lightning (deluxe edition)

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Annotation

Limited deluxe edition (30,000 units):

3 LPs (remastered album, live, picture disc EP).
6 CDs (remastered album, interviews, demos, live).
DVD (live, interviews).
Lyric book.
3 posters.
72-page hardcover book.
Includes 3 cards for digital downloads of vinyl content.

Tracklist

1▶12" Vinyl: Ride the Lightning (remastered)

2▶12" Vinyl: Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - March 10th, 1985 (disc 1)

3▶12" Vinyl: Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - March 10th, 1985 (disc 2)

4▶12" Vinyl: Creeping Death EP

5▶CD: Ride the Lightning (remastered)

6▶CD: Metallica Interviews

7▼CD: Demos & Rough Mixes From Lars' Vault
#	Title	Length
1	Ride the Lightning (studio demo) bass: Cliff Burton (on 1983-10-29) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1983-10-29) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1983-10-29) and James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) recorded at: The Automatt in San Francisco, California, United States (on 1983-10-29) recording of: Ride the Lightning (on 1983-10-29) lyricist: James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music	6:48
2	When Hell Freezes Over ("The Call of Ktulu") (studio demo) bass: Cliff Burton (on 1983-10-29) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1983-10-29) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1983-10-29) and James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) recorded at: The Automatt in San Francisco, California, United States (on 1983-10-29) recording of: The Call of Ktulu (on 1983-10-29) composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music version of: When the Hell Freezes Over	8:42
3	Creeping Death (studio demo) bass: Cliff Burton (on 1983-10-29) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1983-10-29) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1983-10-29) and James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) recorded at: The Automatt in San Francisco, California, United States (on 1983-10-29) recording of: Creeping Death (on 1983-10-29) lyricist: Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music and Take Out Music Ltd. is based on: Die By His Hand	7:11
4	Fight Fire With Fire (studio demo) bass: Cliff Burton (on 1983-10-29) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1983-10-29) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1983-10-29) and James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1983-10-29) recorded at: The Automatt in San Francisco, California, United States (on 1983-10-29) recording of: Fight Fire With Fire (on 1983-10-29) lyricist: James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music	5:01
5	Ride the Lightning (garage demo) recorded in: El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) bass: Cliff Burton (in 1983) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (in 1983) guitar: Kirk Hammett (in 1983) and James Hetfield (in 1983) vocals: James Hetfield (in 1983) recorded at: The Carlson House in El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) recording of: Ride the Lightning (in 1983) lyricist: James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music	7:34
6	When Hell Freezes Over ("The Call of Ktulu") (garage demo) recorded in: El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) bass: Cliff Burton (in 1983) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (in 1983) guitar: Kirk Hammett (in 1983) and James Hetfield (in 1983) vocals: James Hetfield (in 1983) recorded at: The Carlson House in El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) recording of: The Call of Ktulu (in 1983) composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music version of: When the Hell Freezes Over	9:22
7	Fight Fire With Fire (garage demo) recorded in: El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) bass: Cliff Burton (in 1983) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (in 1983) guitar: Kirk Hammett (in 1983) and James Hetfield (in 1983) vocals: James Hetfield (in 1983) recorded at: The Carlson House in El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) recording of: Fight Fire With Fire (in 1983) lyricist: James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music	5:28
8	Ride the Lightning (boom box demo) recorded in: El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) bass: Cliff Burton (in 1983) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (in 1983) guitar: Kirk Hammett (in 1983) and James Hetfield (in 1983) vocals: James Hetfield (in 1983) recorded at: The Carlson House in El Cerrito, California, United States (in 1983) recording of: Ride the Lightning (in 1983) lyricist: James Hetfield composer: Cliff Burton, James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine and Lars Ulrich publisher: Creeping Death Music	7:44
9	Blitzkrieg (rhythm track rough mix) recorded in: Sausalito, California, United States (on 1984-10-24) engineer: Jeffrey "Nick" Norman producer: Metallica and Mark Whitaker bass: Cliff Burton (on 1984-10-24) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1984-10-24) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1984-10-24) and James Hetfield (on 1984-10-24) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1984-10-24) instrumental cover recording of: Blitzkrieg (on 1984-10-24) writer: Brian Smith, Ian Jones and Jim Sirotto publisher: Men From The North Ltd and Neat Music	3:38
10	Am I Evil? (rhythm track rough mix) recorded in: Sausalito, California, United States (on 1984-10-24) engineer: Jeffrey "Nick" Norman producer: Metallica and Mark Whitaker bass: Cliff Burton (on 1984-10-24) drums (drum set): Lars Ulrich (on 1984-10-24) guitar: Kirk Hammett (on 1984-10-24) and James Hetfield (on 1984-10-24) vocals: James Hetfield (on 1984-10-24) recording of: Am I Evil? (on 1984-10-24) writer: Sean Harris and Brian Tatler publisher: Happy Face Music Ltd., Universal Music–Z Tunes LLC and Zomba Music	8:06

8▶CD: Live at the Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco, CA - March 15th, 1985

9▶CD: Live at the Lyceum Theatre, London, UK - December 20th, 1984

10▶CD: Live at Castle Donington, UK - August 17th, 1985

11▶DVD: Live at Metal Hammer Festival in St. Goarshausen, Germany - September 14th, 1985 / Live at Day on the Green at Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA - August 31st, 1985 / MTV News Interview with Lars & James / Lars' First Television Interview - DR TV / Lars Interview Segment - DR TV

Credits

Release

art direction:	Marc Reiter Alex Tenta
legal representation:	Peter Paterno
liner notes:	"Big Mick" Hughes "Metal Joe" Chimienti Michael Alago Ken Anthony Sam Bernett Cliff Burnstein Dave Constable K.J. Doughton Kelv Hellrazer Gem Howard-Kemp Ken "3AM" Jacobsen Peter Paterno Flemming Rasmussen Dave Reynolds Ursula Limanets Rohr Mike Shannon Hank Shermann Alec von Tavel
miscellaneous support:	Lindsay Chase (task: mastering coordinator) Willie LaRose (task: business management) Dan Nykolayko (task: project coordinator) Eleni Psaltis (task: product management) Eric Wasserman (task: business management) Brant Weil (task: product management)
engineer:	Greg Fidelman (task: audio fixes) Kent Matcke (task: audio fixes)
executive producer:	Greg Fidelman
mastering:	Chris Bellman Reuben Cohen Vlado Meller Mark Santangelo
remastering:	Howie Weinberg
design:	Ad Artists (task: cover design) Metallica (task: cover concept)

manufactured by:	Blackened Recordings Inc.
copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by:	Blackened Recordings Inc. (from 1983 until 1985)

mastered at:	Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States Lurssen Mastering in Burbank, California, United States Masterdisk in New York, New York, United States The Mastering Palace in Harlem, New York, New York, United States Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina, United States
remastered at:	Howie Weinberg Mastering in Los Angeles, California, United States

part of:	Metallica - Remastered Deluxe Box Set series (order: 2)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/release/8438437 [info]
ASIN:	US: B01BUX7YPO [info]

Release group

artist & repertoire support:	Michael Alago Dave Henson, Jr.
creative direction:	Metallica

associated singles/EPs:	Creeping Death
covers:	Metallica: A Tribute to Ride the Lightning by Various Artists
live performances:	2012-06-23: Orion Music + More: Bader Field, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
included in:	Limited‐Edition Vinyl Box Set The Metallica Collection

part of:	Z-Trip’s Top Nine 80s Records (number: 9) (order: 9) Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time (number: 11) (order: 11)

Discogs:	https://www.discogs.com/master/6440 [info]
lyrics page:	https://genius.com/albums/Metallica/Ride-the-lightning [info]
other databases:	http://www.musik-sammler.de/album/1507 [info] https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/metallica/ride_the_lightning/ [info] https://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/metallica/ride-the-lightning [info] https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album-details-5985 [info] https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19918 [info] https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/album/Ride_the_Lightning/621 [info]
Allmusic:	https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000190995 [info]
Wikidata:	Q190989 [info]