OE06196

UPC: 4788522
Release Date: 2016-04-15

Ride the Lightningis the second album by the Americanheavy metalbandMetallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record labelMegaforce Records. The album was recorded in three weeks with producerFlemming RasmussenatSweet Silence StudiosinCopenhagen, Denmark. The artwork, based on a concept by the band, depicts anelectric chairbeing struck by lightning flowing from the band logo. The title was taken from a passage inStephen King’s novelThe Stand, in which a character uses the phrase to refer to execution by electric chair.