Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Fight Fire With Fire	4:45
2	Ride The Lightning Written-By – Mustaine*	6:36
3	For Whom The Bell Tolls	5:09
4	Fade To Black	6:57
5	Trapped Under Ice	4:04
6	Escape	4:23
7	Creeping Death	6:36
8	The Call Of Ktulu Bass [Lead Bass] – Cliff BurtonWritten-By – Mustaine*	8:53

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Warner Communications Inc.
• Record Company – Warner Communications
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Copyright (c) – Elektra/Asylum Records
• Copyright (c) – Creeping Death Music
• Published By – Creeping Death Music
• Manufactured By – WEA Manufacturing Inc.
• Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios
• Mixed At – Sweet Silence Studios
• Mastered At – Masterdisk
• Pressed By – Allied Record Company
• Glass Mastered At – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

• A&R [Coordinator] – Michael Alago
• Bass – Cliff Burton
• Booking [Agency Representation] – ATI , Ian Sales, Marsha Vlasic, Neil Warnock
• Cover [Design] – Ad Artists
• Drums – Lars Ulrich
• Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen
• Lead Guitar – Kirk Hammett
• Legal [Representation] – Peter Paterno
• Management – Q Prime Inc.
• Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
• Photography By [Back Cover, Cliff] – Harold O
• Photography By [Back Cover, James] – Rick Brackett
• Photography By [Back Cover, Kirk] – Rick Brackett
• Photography By [Back Cover, Lars] – Pete Cronin
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve, B&W Group] – Fin Costello
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve, Dressing Room] – Robert Hoetink
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve, Live Pix Group] – Anthony D. Sommella
• Producer [Assistant] – Flemming Rasmussen, Mark Whitaker
• Producer, Design Concept [Cover] – Metallica
• Vocals, Rhythm Guitar – James Hetfield
• Written-By – Burton* (tracks: 1 to 4, 7, 8), Hetfield*, Hammett* (tracks: 4 to 7), Ulrich*

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark, during spring 1984.

(P)©1984 Elektra/Asylum Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10019,
9229 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90069/A Division of Warner Communications.,Inc.,

Catalog number 9 60396-2 on spine.
Catalog number 60396-2 on back cover, booklet, and compact disc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7559 60396 2 8
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 1): ARC 2 60396-2 SRC=08 *M1 S5
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 2): 2 60396-2 SRC=07
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 3): 2 60396-2 SRC=08 M2S5
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 4): 2 60396-2 SRC=09 M4S1
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 5): 2 60396-2 SRC=09 M4S4
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 6): 60396-2 SRC-01
• Matrix / Runout (Variation 7): 2 60396-2 SRC=09 M1S11

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MRI 769	Metallica	Ride The Lightning ‎(LP, Album)	Megaforce Records	MRI 769	US	1984
T-169	Metallica	Ride The Lightning ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	Tango Music	T-169	Poland	Unknown
838 140-2	Metallica	Ride The Lightning ‎(CD, Album, RE, Unofficial)	Vertigo , Phonogram	838 140-2	Russia	Unknown
none	Metallica	Ride The Lightning ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	Not On Label (Metallica)	none	Bulgaria	Unknown
BLCKND004R-1	Metallica	Ride The Lightning ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM)	Blackened Recordings	BLCKND004R-1	US	2016

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