Metallica weren’t just expanding their musical boundaries on their gamechanging second album. Lyrically they were rising above the juvenile concerns of engaging with political and literary topics. They tackled the destructive potential of the arms race on and capital punishment on itself; wore thetook its title and subject matter from Ernest Hemingway’s 1940 Spanish Civil War novel of the same name. it wasn’t.
METALLICA RIDE THE LIGHTNING
Feb 02, 2024
2 minutes
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