Ride the Lightning

Concept

As is the case with Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All, Ride the Lightning is partly conceptual; the tracks don't follow a story but they all deal with the same theme, in this case death. For example, "Fight Fire With Fire" is a commentary on nuclear warfare, "Ride the Lightning" is about the electric chair and "Creeping Death" details the plagues of the Bible. Though the theme of death is widely seen as cliché in the genre, it was executed more professionally here than on almost all contemporaries, with an actual understanding of death and suffering, especially on the suicide lament "Fade to Black".

Related Topics:
Nuclear war - Electric chair - Plague - Bible - Suicide

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