METALLICA. "MASTER OF PUPPETS" MUSIC FOR NATIONS, UK 1986 LP. ORIG. EX COND.
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Metallica ?– Master Of Puppets
Label: Music For Nations ?– MFN 60 Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: UK Released: Mar 1986 Genre: Rock Style: Thrash, Heavy Metal
TracklistHide Credits
A1 Battery 5:10 A2 Master Of Puppets Soloist, Guitar [1st Solo] – Hetfield* 8:38 A3 The Thing That Should Not Be 6:32 A4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 6:28 B1 Disposable Heroes 8:14 B2 Leper Messiah 5:38 B3 Orion Soloist, Bass [4th Solo] – Burton*Soloist, Guitar [2nd Solo] – Hetfield* 8:12 B4 Damage, Inc. 5:08Companies etc
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Music For Nations
- Licensed From – Megaforce Records
- Published By – Creeping Death Music
- Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios
- Mixed At – Amigo Studios
- Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Credits
- Arranged By – Hetfield*, Ulrich*
- Bass, Backing Vocals – Cliff Burton
- Design Concept [Cover Concept] – Metallica, Peter Mensch
- Drums – Lars Ulrich
- Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen
- Illustration [Cover] – Don Brautigam
- Lead Guitar – Kirk Hammett
- Lyrics By – Hetfield*
- Management – Q-Prime, Inc.*
- Management [Agency Representation] – John Jackson (18), Marsha Vlasic
- Mastered By – George Marino
- Mixed By – Michael Wagener
- Mixed By [Assistant] – Mark Wilzcak*
- Photography By [Back Cover - Cliff] – Rich Likong
- Photography By [Back Cover - Lars] – Rob Ellis*
- Photography By [Inner Sleeve, Back Cover - Kirk & James] – Ross Halfin
- Producer – Flemming Rasmussen, Metallica
- Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – James Hetfield
- Written-By – Burton* (tracks: A2, B3, B4), Hetfield*, Hammett* (tracks: A2 to B1, B4), Ulrich*
Notes
Released with a printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos
review
[-]by Steve HueyEven though Master of Puppets didn't take as gigantic a leap forward as Ride the Lightning, it was the band's greatest achievement, hailed as a masterpiece by critics far outside heavy metal's core audience. It was also a substantial hit, reaching the Top 30 and selling three million copies despite absolutely nonexistent airplay. Instead of a radical reinvention, Master of Puppets is a refinement of past innovations. In fact, it's possible to compare Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets song for song and note striking similarities between corresponding track positions on each record (although Lightning's closing instrumental has been bumped up to next-to-last in Master's running order). That hint of conservatism is really the only conceivable flaw here. Though it isn't as startling as Ride the Lightning,Master of Puppets feels more unified, both thematically and musically. Everything about it feels blown up to epic proportions (indeed, the songs are much longer on average), and the band feels more in control of its direction. You'd never know it by the lyrics, though -- in one way or another, nearly every song on Master of Puppets deals with the fear of powerlessness. Sometimes they're about hypocritical authority (military and religious leaders), sometimes primal, uncontrollable human urges (drugs, insanity, rage), and, in true H.P. Lovecraft fashion, sometimes monsters. Yet by bookending the album with two slices of thrash mayhem ("Battery" and "Damage, Inc."), the band reigns triumphant through sheer force -- of sound, of will, of malice. The arrangements are thick and muscular, and the material varies enough in texture and tempo to hold interest through all its twists and turns. Some critics have called Master of Puppets the best heavy metal album ever recorded; if it isn't, it certainly comes close.
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