Albums similar to Ride the Lightning
These are the albums most often named alongside Metallica - Ride the Lightning by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Metallica, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.
- Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Megadeth - Rust in Peace
- Dream Theater - Images and Words
- Megadeth - So Far, So Good… So What!
- Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
- Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
- Testament - The Ritual
- Megadeth - Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?
- Testament - Low
- Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
- Sepultura - Arise
- Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
- Slayer - South of Heaven
- Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
- Metallica - …And Justice for All
- Korn - Korn
- Alice in Chains - Dirt
- Van Halen - Van Halen
- Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
- Metallica - Kill ’Em All
- Slayer - Reign in Blood
- Metallica - Metallica
- Testament - Practice What You Preach
- Rush - Hemispheres
- Pearl Jam - Ten
- Melvins - Houdini
- Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock N Roll
- Dio - Holy Diver
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