Album:
Ride The Lightning

The inspiration:
The lyrics of the song "For Whom The Bell Tolls" are based on the same titled Ernest Hemmingway novel, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" which is about an American who is given the job of taking out a bridge held by the Fasist army in the Spanish Civil War - the precurser to the World War II. He fell in love and then found out very disturbing things about life and death.

The sample:
DJ Spooky sampled "For Whom The Bell Tolls" for the soundtrack of the movie "Spawn". The Blood Hound Gang uses (among others) a sample of "For Whom The Bell Tolls" for a song called "Mope".

The subject matter:
The song "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is about a scene of the Ernest Hemmingway novel where - one morning - five soldiers were taking a position on a hill and they get killed by an airstrike.