MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Ride the Lightning Turns Thirty-One

"Wait for the sign to flick the switch of death, it's the beginning of the end." Ride the Lightning was released 31 years ago today. @haraldoimoen 's classic shot of Cliff from the back of the album has a pretty cool story, we blogged about it last year: bit.ly/ridethelightning31 Eventually the photo ended up in MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW, alongside 400 other high-caliber shots from the Bay Area thrash metal epicenter www.murderinthefrontrow.com #Metallica #cliffburton #ridethelightning #mu...