Amazing Album!!!!!
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!!!!!
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Metallica's magnum opus
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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"Listen, dammit, we will win!"
Despite my decidedly non-metal oriented tastes, I'm a pretty big fan of Metallica. Especially this album, a pure masterpiece, Metallica's greatest album ever. Ride the Lightning is also an excellent album, but I'm not a big fan of "Escape." By contrast, I can think of NOTHING to complain about here. Wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor, every song is very close to perfect.
Choosing highlights on this album is hard, but one that especially stands out to me is "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)." I've always loved Metallica's power ballads, and this is arguably the best of them. It's my favorite Metallica song after "Fade to Black," a haunting song undercut with strong emotions of anger and confusion.
Also great on this album (I mean, besides everything) are the three extended epics on this thing. The title track and "Disposable Heroes" both speed through piles of brilliant riffs with surprisingly great melodies. The title track is a just classic, one of Metallica's greatest songs ever, but for some reason "Disposable Heroes" gets something of a bad rap. But it's amazing as the title track, with just as many spectacular riffs. And the instrumental "Orion" is even better than the previous album's "Call of Ktulu," which was a classic to begin with. Not bad!
Ah, and those other four songs score big points, too. "Battery," "Damage Inc.," and "Leper Messiah" all really work as fast, angry thrashers - I especially enjoy "Leper Messiah's" anti-Televangelist lyrics. And the Lovecraft-inspired "Thing That Should Not Be" is quite an eerie song, between its lyrics and the sound effects.
Some have complained that Master of Puppets borrows the sequencing from Ride the Lightning, and I can see that. Both albums open with a deceptive acoustic introduction that gives way to a powerful thrasher, move into a complex title track, which becomes a doomy, sound-effect laden song and, lastly, a power ballad. The second side contains three thrashers and one epic instrumental, though the instrumental here is second-to-last rather than last. But I think they PERFECT that formula here, so no complaints!
Another fantastic thing about this album is its lyrics. This is REAL stuff, not the D&D fantasies of Black Sabbath or the sex god decadence of Led Zeppelin (though I like both the Zep and Sab, don't get me wrong there). The lyrics are about drug addiction, insanity, child abandonment, religious hypocrisy, and other very real issues. Really down-to-Earth band, Metallica. Great one, too!
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Classic Thrash Metal Album
True classic thrash metal album and one of Metallica's best albums too date. Every song on here is from 5-9 minutes long each with heavy guitar pounding beats and heavy stellar beats that make this CD a must have. Some key tracks on here are, battery, master of puppets, damage inc, and the thing that should not be. I love all the songs on here and its great album too listen too if your bored one day pull this cd out or buy it and than blast it. Great Metallica album one of the best Metallica albums there is buy today!
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