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30+ Years of Metallica
1984 Ride the Lightning
This was produced by Flemming Rassmussen in Copenhagen at Sweet Silence Studios during the summer of 1984. Songs like “For Whom The Bell Tolls” and “Fade To Black” sat proudly with the aggression of “Fight Fire With Fire” and “Creeping Death.”
Ride the Lightning peaked at number 100 on the Billboard 200 with no radio exposure. Although 75,000 copies were initially pressed for the American market, the album sold half a million by November 1987. It was certified 6× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2012 for shipping six million copies in the United States.