Ride the Lightning (deluxe edition)
~ Release by Metallica (see all versions of this release, 60 available)
Annotation
Limited deluxe edition (30,000 units):
- 3 LPs (remastered album, live, picture disc EP).
- 6 CDs (remastered album, interviews, demos, live).
- DVD (live, interviews).
- Lyric book.
- 3 posters.
- 72-page hardcover book.
- Includes 3 cards for digital downloads of vinyl content.
Annotation last modified on 2025-11-30 10:53 UTC.
Tracklist
| 112" Vinyl: Ride the Lightning (remastered) |
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| 212" Vinyl: Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - March 10th, 1985 (disc 1) |
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| 312" Vinyl: Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - March 10th, 1985 (disc 2) |
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| 412" Vinyl: Creeping Death EP |
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| 5CD: Ride the Lightning (remastered) |
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| 6CD: Metallica Interviews |
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| 7CD: Demos & Rough Mixes From Lars' Vault |
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| 8CD: Live at the Kabuki Theatre, San Francisco, CA - March 15th, 1985 |
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| 9CD: Live at the Lyceum Theatre, London, UK - December 20th, 1984 |
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Credits
Release
| art direction: | Marc Reiter (art director, product manager, manager, executive-producer & interviewer) Alex Tenta |
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| legal representation: | Peter Paterno |
| liner notes: | "Big Mick" Hughes (Metallica live audio engineer) "Metal Joe" Chimienti (Old Bridge Militia Foundation) Michael Alago (music produer) Ken Anthony (childhood friend of Lars Ulrich) Sam Bernett Cliff Burnstein (Q Prime Inc.) Dave Constable (Shades Records and Metal Forces) K.J. Doughton (author) Kelv Hellrazer (Shades Records) Gem Howard-Kemp (formerly of Music for Nations) Ken "3AM" Jacobsen (film, TV, videogame composer; guitarist for Unleashed Power) Peter Paterno Flemming Rasmussen Dave Reynolds (journalist) Ursula Limanets Rohr (Disctrade) Mike Shannon (owner of Shades Records) Hank Shermann Alec von Tavel (Disctrade) |
| miscellaneous support: | Lindsay Chase (task: mastering coordinator) Willie LaRose (task: business management) Dan Nykolayko (task: project coordinator) Eleni Psaltis (task: product management) Eric Wasserman (Managing partner and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based office business management firm of WG&S, LLP.) (task: business management) Brant Weil (task: product management) |
| engineer: | Greg Fidelman (Greg Fields, US producer, engineer, mixer and songwriter) (task: audio fixes) Kent Matcke (task: audio fixes) |
| executive producer: | Greg Fidelman (Greg Fields, US producer, engineer, mixer and songwriter) |
| mastering: | Chris Bellman (mastering engineer) Reuben Cohen Vlado Meller (mastering engineer) Mark Santangelo |
| remastering: | Howie Weinberg (mastering engineer) |
| design: | Ad Artists (task: cover design) Metallica (task: cover concept) |
| manufactured by: | Blackened Recordings Inc. (copyrights holder, do not use as label!) |
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| copyrighted (©) by and phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Blackened Recordings Inc. (copyrights holder, do not use as label!) (from 1983 until 1985) |
| mastered at: | Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States Lurssen Mastering in Burbank, California, United States Masterdisk (American mastering studio located in Peekskill, New York, operating under this name since 1973. Previously known as Mercury Records Mastering.) in New York, New York, United States The Mastering Palace in Harlem, New York, New York, United States Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina, United States |
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| remastered at: | Howie Weinberg Mastering in Los Angeles, California, United States |
| part of: | Metallica - Remastered Deluxe Box Set series (order: 2) |
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| Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/release/8438437 [info] |
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| ASIN: | US: B01BUX7YPO [info] |
Release group
| artist & repertoire support: | Michael Alago (music produer) Dave Henson, Jr. |
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| creative direction: | Metallica |
| associated singles/EPs: | Creeping Death |
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| covers: | Metallica: A Tribute to Ride the Lightning by Various Artists (add compilations to this artist) |
| live performances: | 2012-06-23: Orion Music + More: Bader Field, Atlantic City, NJ, USA |
| included in: | Limited‐Edition Vinyl Box Set The Metallica Collection |
| part of: | Z-Trip’s Top Nine 80s Records (number: 9) (order: 9) Rolling Stone: The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time (number: 11) (order: 11) Loudwire: Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s (number: 13) (order: 13) Consequence of Sound: 75 Best Metal Albums of All Time (2025) (number: 14) (order: 14) Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s (number: 69) (order: 69) |
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