Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Master of Puppets is a landmark metal album, and not one that's particularly accessible to the general public. Their 1991 hit "Metallica," also known as the Black Album, managed to reach this more accessible level leading to its number one spot and successful single releases, while their later albums had their success largely based on the Black Album. Puppets has many elements of fast, heavy thrash metal, but it's the interesting diversity of styles incorporated into songs that makes the album so appealing to me. Whether it's an acoustic introduction, a slow and lengthy solo section or a deep instrumental I find it has much more longevity than some of the ...

This album is THE classic metal album from the 80s. At a time when bands such as Kiss, Poison, Van Halen and other limp wristed rockers were dominating the metal charts, along came Metallica with this, their third album...and blasted the competition away with a display of such strength and power that the world of heavy metal would never be the same again. Many have tried to immitate, but none have found the sheer class which is Metallica and none have even come close to matching this album for power. Master Of Puppets opens, perhaps surprisingly, with an accoustic number, but on 38 seconds we are introduced to what the album is really about. 'Battery' ...

First of all let me tell you that this is an album I hold very close to my heart. Metallica (and Megadeth) were exceptions in the eighties. The decade of hair spray and make-up metal was fake... Kinda like all this nu-metal stuff.. And then I heard Battery on my local radio one day, and there was hope. Metallica have been around for two decades and while disappointing many people in the later half of the nineties, I still love them (yes, even after the 'What a LOAD of cr@p ALBUMS!' I think they're back on the right track with S+M. Anyway here's my rundown of the tracks and some memories of the first time I heard it. --BATTERY-- The ...