Product Description No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: METALLICA Title: MASTER OF PUPPETS Street Release Date: 07/07/1987 Domestic Genre: HEAVY METAL
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
Customer Reviews:
Hard and powerfullOctober 22, 2008 Rock 27 !!!!!!!!!(Ohio) 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 Rey Diaz(Montgomery, IL) 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 TimeOctober 10, 2008 CM(Los Angeles, CA) 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 John Micheals 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 opusOctober 2, 2008 Jonathan Mettin(Philadelphia, PA USA) 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.
