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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Elektra / Wea
Salesrank: 689
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $9.90 |
| Used Price: $8.43 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Master of Puppets Track Listing:
1. Battery
2. Master of Puppets
3. Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion [Instrumental]
8. Damage, Inc.
Editorial Review:
2008 reissue of the 1986 album, Master of Puppets by Metallica which was ranked eighth on the list of the biggest selling groups in history, and one of the most influential bands in music. Metallica proved its metal with this groundbreaking album and it was 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 was the last album the band recorded with bass player Cliff Burton before his death later that year.
Description of Master of Puppets:
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
Master of Puppets Reviews:
metallica: "masters of speed metal". 
2009-12-07 - This was one of Metallica's best records, and for a good reason, it f***ing rocks.
PURCHASED MASTER OF PUPPETS 
2009-10-03 - AS EXPECTED THE CD WAS DELIVERED ON THE PREDICTED DAY WHICH WAS GREAT AND THE CD WAS NEW AND UNOPEND AS WAS PROMISED. OVER ALL I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THE OVERALL PURCHASE OF THE CD AND THE QUICK DESPATCH FROM WHERE I PURCHASED IT FROM. GREAT JOB!!!!
One of the best albums of all time
2009-09-19 - I started out reading the one-star reviews on this site first, and I have to tell you that I cannot understand them. First-off I've been a Metallica fan since I was roughly 9 years old (I am 30 now). So it's safe for me to say that they really really suck now. I mean seriously everything after And Justice For All, (when they switched producers from Flemming Rasmussen to Bob Rock) is just a downward spiral of suckiness. They are old and not doing anything good with their music and need to stop making music.
Now with that said I want to review the album. There is not one bad song on here - not one song that you could say was "filler". Some of the best musicianship ever! I am a guitar player for over 19 years now and I have to say that I grew up playing those riffs, and they are still fun to play, and they still sound amazing. This is one of the most influental albums of all time. Yes, I know there is better guitar work out there (I am an avid fan of players like: Satriani, Vai, E. Johnson, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Jeff Loomis, Yngwie, Petrucci, and other virtuosos, but this is when Kirk Hammett was at his best. The tightness of them all playing together, the imagery, just beautiful (albeit morbid), but you didn't just listen to the songs - you entered them and watched them unfold like dreams or stories. This is one of the albums that will always be a classic and will NEVER die. As for all the people who are saying things like "metal is poison and makes you suicidal" those people should not comment on albums like this. It would be the same if I commented on Gangsta Rap. Obviously these people have never heard of Norwegian Black Metal - that really is (mostly - admit it) Satanic. Master of Puppets = not Satanic - not poisonous. If they took the time to hear the intricacies of the music they would see that it is nothing short of great classical music not unlike Beethoven, Bach, or Paganini. In short - this album is a definitive masterpiece, and at the risk of sounding "poisoned & suicidal" I think that the naysayers should just go back to listening to Taylor Swift, Hannah Montana, and Jonas Brothers - we don't need you trying to join the Metal Militia. You will never understand, and we don't care - cause your music sucks - just like your pathetic, insignificant lives, and we don't care if you die. Go be suicidal to Miley Cyrus - in your unintelligent whorish Lady Gaga lives.
Metallica-Master Of Puppets- Best Metallica Album ever.Classic!
2009-09-15 - I remember this being my first experience with Metallica, After of Course Seeing the Music Video "ONE" as A Kid, Which was one of my Favorite if not Favorite Song ever. This was Metallica At it's Zenith, The Best Album. My First Album I Had of Them Back in 93/94/95' I had the Cassette Tape*Later my Brother got the Cd I Introduced him to it*, I would listen to Master OF Puppets, Songs are heavy hitting, Realizing now some had social type message that I might not like."Solider boy, made of Clay.."(anti-War?) Favorite Being Leper Messiah, a Great song. all songs on here are awesome. Before And Justice For all(which Had "One" Beautiful song) and last album with Cliff Burton(R.I.P.) Sadly. A good Start for Metallica, Although I am fond of "For Whom The Bells Toll".
Overrated 
2009-09-08 - This album fails when compared to the real Metallica and Kill Em All. This is where it all started to fall apart, compared to other albums like Fistful Of Metal, Bonded By Blood, Killing is my Business, Show No Mercy this album sucks.
