“Cliff played For Whom The Bell Tolls all the time. The rest of us would stiffen up and go, ‘What the heck was that?’” The stories behind every song on Ride The Lightning, in Metallica’s own words

Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett break down their band’s landmark second album, released on this day in 1984

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