Author Topic: Metallica Survivor 2012 - Ride the Lightning Round 1 (Read 3460 times)

Onno · « **on:** October 07, 2012, 10:21:03 AM »

With 20 votes, Whiplash is eliminated, which makes The Four Horsemen and Seek & Destroy the winners of Kill 'Em All. Up next: Ride the Lightning. My vote goes to Escape.

Zydar · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:21:45 AM »

Escape

It's still a great song though IMHO.

Mladen · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:22:55 AM »

Escape is the only good song on the album.

The rest is absolutely incredible.

Onno · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:24:05 AM »

You are both absolutely correct

Rattlehead · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:43:45 AM »

Fight Fire With Fire

Unlegit · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:44:19 AM »

Escape.

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:24:29 AM »

Escape

Zook · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:31:02 AM »

Ktulu

Ruba · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:32:04 AM »

For Whom the Bell Tolls. It has totally worn me out. My band played it too much when I was 13.

Adami · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:34:41 AM »

Escape.

jammindude · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2012, 12:08:44 PM »

Quote from: Mladen on October 07, 2012, 10:22:55 AM

Escape is the only good song on the album.

The rest is absolutely incredible.

Destiny Of Chaos · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2012, 12:09:42 PM »

Agree about Escape being good, but the least best of them.

Scorpion · « **Reply #12 on:** October 07, 2012, 12:39:47 PM »

Trapped Under Ice

Dimitrius · « **Reply #13 on:** October 07, 2012, 01:06:01 PM »

Bye Escape

LyterTheDestroyer · « **Reply #14 on:** October 07, 2012, 01:08:29 PM »

I like Escape.

Fight Fire With Fire is kinda lame.

Jaffa · « **Reply #15 on:** October 07, 2012, 01:53:06 PM »

I like Escape, but it is also the only correct answer for round 1.

Also, who the hell voted for Ride The Lightning?

krands85 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 07, 2012, 02:04:38 PM »

Escape. It and Trapped Under Ice are the only 2 songs on this album I'd consider a bit weak.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 07, 2012, 02:14:37 PM »

Escape

Lolzeez · « **Reply #18 on:** October 07, 2012, 02:39:58 PM »

trapped under ice

Nekov · « **Reply #19 on:** October 07, 2012, 02:55:26 PM »

Quote from: Lolzeez on October 07, 2012, 02:39:58 PM

trapped under ice

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #20 on:** October 07, 2012, 03:49:30 PM »

Quote from: Rattlehead on October 07, 2012, 10:43:45 AM

Fight Fire With Fire

WAT

Escape

Nekov · « **Reply #21 on:** October 07, 2012, 03:55:28 PM »

Either scorp or loleez didn't vote. There's only 2 votes for under the ice

Scorpion · « **Reply #22 on:** October 07, 2012, 03:57:13 PM »

I voted.

Elite · « **Reply #23 on:** October 07, 2012, 05:30:44 PM »

Voting has rarely been easier; Escape.

Rattlehead · « **Reply #24 on:** October 07, 2012, 06:14:56 PM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 07, 2012, 03:49:30 PM

Quote from: Rattlehead on October 07, 2012, 10:43:45 AM
Fight Fire With Fire

WAT

Escape

Sorry, just never really cared for it

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #25 on:** October 07, 2012, 06:31:59 PM »

Eh, it's your taste dude - I happen to think that song kicks 10 tons of wombat ass, but that's just me.

El Barto · « **Reply #26 on:** October 07, 2012, 08:12:01 PM »

Easily Trapped Under Ice.

jammindude · « **Reply #27 on:** October 07, 2012, 08:24:36 PM »

Never imagined all the hate for Trapped Under Ice. I would easily vote out Call of Kthulu, Fight Fire With Fire, heck...even Fade To Black before I voted out Trapped Under Ice.

I mean, after Escape is gone, they are all so amazing that it's tough to pick ANYTHING but...

El Barto · « **Reply #28 on:** October 07, 2012, 08:34:03 PM »

Trapped has always seemed like mindless speed with little else to offer.

Obviously Kthulu won't make the cut, but Metallica's always done instrumentals well. I'd like to see it last longer than it will.

jammindude · « **Reply #29 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:04:57 PM »

Quote from: El Barto on October 07, 2012, 08:34:03 PM

Trapped has always seemed like mindless speed with little else to offer.

I could say that about most of the Metallica "speed" songs. But the riff is incredible, and when Metallica was getting their legs, it was the speed that set them apart from everyone else out there.

I know the debate rages on....but Metallica was really the birth of "thrash"...as much as I hear whippersnappers try to say that "Metallica isn't thrash, they're just a metal band"...

El Barto · « **Reply #30 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:35:38 PM »

Quote from: jammindude on October 07, 2012, 09:04:57 PM

Quote from: El Barto on October 07, 2012, 08:34:03 PM
Trapped has always seemed like mindless speed with little else to offer.

I could say that about most of the Metallica "speed" songs. But the riff is incredible, and when Metallica was getting their legs, it was the speed that set them apart from everyone else out there.

Yeah, it really wasn't. RTL came out at a time when there were tons of bands all trying to play faster than anybody else. What separated Metallica from Exodus, Kreator, Exciter, and dozens of other nearly identical metal bands was that Metallica was more than just speed. They were also melodic, intelligent and fairly creative for their time. Trapped could have been on any of those bands' albums. FtB or Creeping Death, not so much. That's why we're not currently having an Exhorder survivor.

jammindude · « **Reply #31 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:50:51 PM »

Ok...*in the states*...

Because, as far as I know (indeed, as far as I'm concerned) no one paid attention to any of those bands (and really, Venom was probably the first) until KEA and RTL started making waves. Then suddenly, everyone was checking out the whole scene.

Heck, I had been a metal head for 4 years, and I was getting sick of how Hollywood-ized everything was already starting to become. I saw RtL on the "New Release" rack at my local record store, and it wasn't until then that I began hearing about Slayer, Anthrax, Venom, Kreator....etc..etc..etc. And at my entire high school, I was one of two people that had even heard of Metallica...much less the others.

I guess I'm digressing. But my point was that they were part of a scene where (to the typical 14 yr old boy like myself) the heaviness and speed was what set them apart from the mainstream metal bands of the time (i.e. Ozzy, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and the "just starting to rise" glam scene)

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #32 on:** October 08, 2012, 01:36:13 AM »

wolfking · « **Reply #33 on:** October 08, 2012, 05:24:10 AM »

Quote from: Zydar on October 07, 2012, 10:21:45 AM

Escape

It's still a great song though IMHO.

Rattlehead · « **Reply #34 on:** October 08, 2012, 09:49:46 AM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on October 07, 2012, 06:31:59 PM

Eh, it's your taste dude - I happen to think that song kicks 10 tons of wombat ass, but that's just me.

It's a cool song, I just think it's the "worst" song on this classic album.

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