The Hall of Judgement: Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Rexorcist has requested that this release be submitted into the Hall of Judgement. If you agree with the below change request, vote YES. If you don't, vote NO.

Request: Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" album should be added to The Guardians while remaining in The Pit.

This change will see the Heavy Metal genre added to the release on top of its existing Thrash Metal tag.

Member comment: "The title track and "Escape" have their typical heavy metal moments and are not limited to pure thrash like "Fight Fire With Fire" or "Creeping Death; they switch from thrash to heavy metal a couple times, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and the two longest tracks "Fade to Black" and "The Call of Ktulu" are almost either pure heavy metal or lightly prog metal. I mean, "Fade to Black" is a freakin' ballad that's only really considered a thrash metal song because it gets a little heavier in the end and it's on a thrash album. There's some thrashing on "Fade to Black," but not a lot. It's really just heaviness in general. I wouldn't put this under anything besides thrash and heavy, though. The speed and prog influences aren't strong enough for that."

NOTE: Only members of The Guardians &/or The Pit can vote on this judgement. Once 15 votes of Yes or No have been entered, the Hall will make its judgement.