Imagine an alternate 1991 where James Hetfield and Bob Rock decided to give the Ride the Lightning classic the "Snake" treatment. If had been recorded during The Black Album sessions, the transformation would have been legendary. Here is what that version sounds like in another timeline: 🎸 The Sonic Overhaul

Would you have preferred the of '84 or the crushing precision of '91 for this track?

It loses some of its thrashy, "forbidden" mystique but gains an immovable, tectonic weight. It becomes less of a war story and more of a funeral march for a stadium of 100,000 people.