Ride The

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The sound is very brutal with great mass and bass and remind you a little bit the 1st "Elektra pressing of 1984". But the difference are the guitars and the depth of the album. The "Elektra pressing" has more natural sound and more guitar deformation. Here the guitar deformation is little buried somehow. And the very big bass cover little the rest instruments. Also i want to say that i'm not big fan for the remastered version of the album. In this remastered they put higher the drums and overtime that tires you. The tom snare bit your ears overtime and cover the other instruments. In the CD is much worse that but still you can hear it and on the LP. This specific version is bad in my opinion. Low quality material with muddy guitars. Also very low end sound. The versions it lags on top end. Especially the "For whom the bell tolls" it sound buried and dead. Suresly the worst song version i have listen in my life. This vinyl was very difficult to find, but I feel happy that I finally found it and included it in this list because it is a very important material. I had heard many good words about the "Banzai" pressings and I always wanted to know how their products really sound and especially that. Anyway this pressing is really incredible and i know many die-hard collectors believe that is the best version of the album. And yes i can understand that. The version it sound so brutal and so powerful that you can't imagine. When i put it for the first time in my system, i feel my house get destroyed from the power of music. Also you can listen so much details that you never listen before.

Overall this is one collective and beautiful material to have in your collection but is not my first choice to listen the album from here. Overall this is a great and very rare collective material and nothing more. Here you can not find the best sounding version of the album. Better go and buy 3 - 4 "Elektra" versions of the album than this one. But if you want my opinion, despite the power and the brutal power, i believe this is not the best version of the album and i can tell the reason. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The album was recorded in three weeks with producer Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The overall recording costs were paid by Metallica's European label Music for Nations because Megaforce was unable to cover it.

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Anyway after so many years i finded one copy and i'm very happy for that. But here we are talking about sound quality. But in fact, that attitude seemed silly even by 1984, when Metallica released Ride the Lightning and pretty much left its youthful naivete behind for good. Yes, Hammett and late bassist Cliff Burton's fascination with comic books and Dungeons and Dragons-style fantasy rears its head on "The Call of Ktulu," but on Ride the Lightning the band no longer comes across like a street gang but like a group of frightened young men using their hellacious sound as a shield against life's unsettling realities. The thuggish lyrics on Kill 'Em All updated Motörhead's roaming-pirate vibe for a younger generation of brash American kids, as reflected in lines like "The show is through, the metal's gone / It's time to hit the road / Another town, another gig / Again we will explode" from the headbanging anthem "Whiplash." Fueled by hatred for L.A. hair metal and a pop mainstream that the band never could have dreamed would embrace it eight years later, Kill 'Em All raised a middle finger in the air while sounding a trumpet of unity for metalheads everywhere with its us-against-the-world mentality. Now, of course, its youthful persecution complex seems silly and sophomoric. All in all, you can still listen the album from here but I definitely prefer to listen the album from some CD than this pressing and that is the bigger problem. In my opinion "MFN" has the worst original "Metallica" pressings. Specially in the "Master of Puppets" case. For me stay away from this version and "Master of Puppets" original pressings. The MFN 45 RPM editions is a different story.

All in all, if you want to listen to most heavier, darker, atmospheric and dirty version of the album with the most natural sound, this is the pressing for you. Here you can not find the brightness of "Megaforce Pressing" but only the dark atmosphere of the album. And i believe that it suits well with the album music.

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Few have this box set and few can really know how these vinyl sound. This box set was released in 5.000 limited copies and for that you can not see many comments for it on the internet. But after 16 years i got my box and i'm ready to described how it sound to me. Also this vinyl is very quiet without any surface noise and they cut it loud. The music come out with amazing power and explosion. The guitars they sound as heavy as ever with incredible dirtyness and guitar deformation. Combined with the big bass, this affecting the sound and you can listen some few noises but nothing serious. This pressing is the most dirty, atmospheric, dark version of the album i have listen to. The mass here is insane and the bass punch your face all the time. You can notice that when the "Ride the Lightning" song starts. The bass go straight in your face and try to destroy you. And the depth behind is incredible. Fight Fire With Fire": That acoustic intro belongs on a power metal album, and definitely not the opening to this song. The rest of this song is pure thrash metal, and pretty much the only pure thrash metal song on this album. If the entire album sounded like this, that'd be great, but no. 5/5