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' ...  Read the complete review

By the time Master of Puppets hit the shelves in 1986 Metallica had already established themselves as the world's foremost purveyors of straight-up Thrash Metal. The band were relatively young at this stage in their careers, having only released two studio albums prior and still exhibiting the pockmarked faces of their recent teenage years. Regardless of their wet ears they chugged along steadily, carving a neat trough right through the centre of the showy glitz of their glam metal counterparts, and in 1986 they completely destroyed any doubt that they were anything but the best. Master of Puppets blew out the speakers worldwide and is still cited as the band's ...  Read the complete review

Master of Puppets is, in my opinion, not quite as good as The Black Album (Metallica's self-titled album), but it's still an absolute classic of the genre, and certainly one of the best metal albums ever written. In many ways the clout they established from this album allowed them to graduate to greater pastures, such as the aforementioned Black Album - it is a definite sign of progress, of a band working towards their magnum opus, and it is utterly fantastic. The first song on the album is Battery, in what has now become a classic for the band and something of a live staple song (as I realised when I saw Metallica at Sonisphere and everyone went NUTS when it ...  Read the complete review

Master of Puppets by Metallica is in my opinion the best album that they have released. I bought this album for £10 from Virgin and thought it was a resonable price but now you can get it for £6 from Amazon which really is a very good deal. The album contains just 8 tracks but you must not forget that these songs are 5 minutes and longer so I felt it was justifiably so. The album was released in March 1986 and has now become 6x Platinum, proving its success and popularity! The album itself is very much heavy metal and if you have not heard of Metallica before they are a very famous heavy metal band. Within the album there are some great hits such as ...  Read the complete review

The standing point in metallica's career. What most metallers would call a lbum that defined a generation. This came to be one of the finest metal pieces ever released. Each track designates itself from different walks of life. Here are the tracks to certain set up. 1. Battery - This song starts the album with the suspenseful acoustic guitar sounds. Dueling together to a mighty crash of drums and distorted guitar. But with a sudden thud of drums in comes the thrashing guitars, shredding to what still is my favorite riff. At 1:29 the vocals break into speeding frenzy with such powerful lines like SMASHING THROUGH THE BOUNDARIES/ LUNACY HAS FOUND ME/ CANNOT ...  Read the complete review