What is Ride the Lightning?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox Album|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | name = Ride the Lightning | type = studio | artist = [[Metallica]] | cover = | alt = An electric chair with lightning striking on it, with more lightning, the lightning is also coming out of the metallica logo, as in blue | released = July 27, 1984<ref>[http://www.metallica.com/timeline.asp?page=events&n_categoryid=808&year=1984 Metallica.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> | recorded = February 20 - March 14, 1984 at Sweet Silence Studios in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]] | genre = [[Thrash metal]] | length = 47:26 | label = [[Megaforce Records|Megaforce]], [[Music for Nations]], [[Elektra Records|Elektra]], [[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]]| | producer = Metallica, [[Flemming Rasmussen]] | prev_title = [[Kill 'Em All]] | prev_year = 1983 | next_title = [[Master of Puppets]] | next_year = 1986 | misc = {{Singles | name =Ride The Lightning | type =studio | single1 =[[Fade to Black (song)|Fade To Black]] | single1date =1984 | single2 =[[Creeping Death]] | single2date =1984 | single3 =[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song)|For Whom The Bell Tolls]] | single3date =1985 }} }} '''''Ride the Lightning''''' is the second [[album]] released by American [[thrash metal]] band [[Metallica]]. It was released on July 27, 1984. It got good reviews. It has sold over six million copies in the US. ==Songs from the album== '''Side one''' {{tracklist |writing_credits =yes |title1 =Fight Fire with Fire |writer1 =[[James Hetfield]], [[Lars Ulrich]], [[Cliff Burton]] |length1 =4:44 |title2 =Ride the Lightning |writer2 =Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, [[Dave Mustaine]] |length2 =6:36 |title3 =[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica song)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]] |writer3 =Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton |length3 =5:09 |title4 =[[Fade to Black (song)|Fade to Black]] |writer4 =Hetfield, Ulrich, Burto