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| Master of Puppets | 
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Sales Rank: 45394
Category: Music
Artist: Metallica
Publisher: WEA/Reprise
Studio: WEA/Reprise
Brand: Big Decibel
Label: WEA/Reprise
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 12.1 x 0.2
MPN: 470844
UPC: 093624986881
EAN: 0093624986881
ASIN: B0017WCERM
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Battery (5:10) | | • | Master Of Puppets (8:38) | | • | The Thing That Should Not Be 6:32 | | • | Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (6:28) | | • | Disposable Heroes (8:14) | | • | Leper Messiah (5:38) | | • | Orion (Instrumental) (8:12) | | • | Damage, Inc. (5:08) |
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Product Description
Standard vinyl package 1-470844 is a regular
weight 33-1/3 rpm vinyl disc in single pocket
Stoughton jacket with insert.
Hailed as a masterpiece
by critics far outside heavy metal s core audience, Master
Of Puppets sold over half a million copies at its time of
release without any major video/radio airplay, making it
the band s first record to be certified Gold by the RIAA. It
has since sold over six million copies in the U.S. alone. It
was the last album the band recorded with bass player
Cliff Burton before his death later that year. The album
has also frequently been tagged by critics as one of the
most influential heavy metal albums of all time.
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. (All Music Guide)
Amazon.com essential recording
One of the defining albums of thrash metal, Master of Puppets is arguably Metallica's best album (as well as their last with bassist Cliff Burton). Focusing on the concept of power and abuses thereof, this is a collection of complex, intelligent music, played at about a hundred miles an hour. Not that these are short songs; this eight-song album clocks in at over an hour, which makes it all the more impressive that not one moment on this recording is boring. In tackling various approaches to their subject, Metallica is insightful lyrically as well as musically: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is from the point of view of an institutionalized inmate and "Disposable Heroes" is the perspective of a soldier. If all you've heard of Metallica is what's been on the radio recently, check this one out. You're in for a surprise. --Genevieve Williams
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 Hard and powerfull October 22, 2008
Very much like most of the old 80's metallica's cd's Are good. I gave this cd a 5 star. Excellent bass all the way. Brutal vocals and machine gun gutiar sounds. Like battery the best. Other great songs on here like master of the puppets leper massiah. Trash at it's best.
Yep definently one of my tops!!! October 16, 2008
I love the metal in this album!!! I just gotta say that this is just one of the best Metallica albums ive ever listen to.
Greatest Heavy Metal Album Of All Time October 10, 2008
This is easily the best album Metallica has ever come out with and will ever come out with. There is not one bad song on this album. From Battery to Damage Inc., it is headbanging heaven. If you do not have the album, buy it. Buy it now. Thank me later.
Amazing Album!!!!! October 9, 2008
This is the album that I first listened to, and I have to say that all eight songs are classic, and worth the listen of anybody. from he thrashing supersonic riffs of Battery, to the soft intro of Welcome Home (Sanitarium), to the heavy riffs of The Thing That Should Not Be, this album is the BEST when it comes to Heavy Metal. You must get this album!!!!!
Metallica's magnum opus October 2, 2008
Simply put, this is metal at its finest by arguably the greatest metal band in their heyday.
Besides playing host to the ubiquitous "Battery" and the titular track "Master of Puppets," the album contains "Sanitarium" and "The Thing That Should Not Be," two other great tracks. The rest of the album is solid, including the instrumental track "Orion."
This album is great but not for the faint of heart; you have been warned.
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