Metallica - Master of Puppets
(CD)
ORIGINAL ELEKTRA
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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.
Track
listing
1. Battery
2. Master of
Puppets
3. Thing That Should Not Be, The
4. Welcome
Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper
Messiah
7. Orion
8. Damage Inc.
Product Details
- Audio CD (1986)
- Original Release Date: 1986
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format AAD
- UPC: 07559604392
- Label ELEKTRA / WEA
Metallica Biography
Metallica began on October 28, 1981, when drummer Lars Ulrich and
singer/guitarist James Hetfield met in LA and agreed to form a band. It
would go on to be a legendary heavy metal band and one of the best
selling and longest lasting musical acts in history.
After
drafting two additional members, bassist Ron McGovney and lead guitarist
Dave Mustaine, they worked toward the release of their first album.
Even before the release of Kill 'em All in 1983, McGovney had
left and Mustaine was fired for disruptive behavior (he went on to form
Megadeth). The two were replaced and Kill 'em All grew the
band's popularity in the metal scene. By 1986, Master of Puppets,
their third release and called "the best heavy metal album ever" by
some, took them into the limelight. However, that success proved
bittersweet when McGovney's replacement, bassist Cliff Burton, was
killed in a bus accident in Sweden.
Eventually finding another
bassist, Jason Newsted, the band released ...And Justice for All
in 1988. It reached No.6 on the Billboard 200, their first in the Top
10, and was also responsible for the band's first Grammy nomination in
1989. Not until 1992 would they win for their next album, the
self-titled Metallica -- also known as The Black Album
-- which featured tracks such as "Enter Sandman" and "Sad But True".
Infighting within the band drew out its production, yet in spite of that
it quickly hit No.1 on the charts and remains the 26th best-selling
album of all time in America.
If The Black Album's softer
touch (relatively speaking) initiated cries that Metallica had sold
out, those cries were turned up to 11 with 1996's Load. The
band cut their hair, changed their image, and had another smashing No.1
success. They released ReLoad (1997) and Garage, Inc.
(1998), before the controversy that has been their most infamous: the
battle with Napster. In 2000, having discovered their entire catalogue
free to be downloaded on the rapidly growing file-sharing network,
Metallica brought legal action against Napster and three major
universities who had not blocked it from their campuses. Their crusade
had mixed success: 300,000 users were expelled from Napster for illegal
downloading, yet the public backlash gave them an image as selfish,
greedy rock stars that they have never quite lived down. The band would
not allow legal downloading until finally reaching an agreement with
Apple's iTunes in 2006.
Hetfield entered rehab and Newsted left
the band in 2001, and for a while it looked like Metallica was finished.
However, Hetfield returned and St. Anger was released in
2003. It debuted at No.1 and claimed another Grammy in 2004 for the
group, despite criticism that it was unpolished. Its production was
recorded in the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, which
also exposed the tense and explosive relationships inside one of the
most famous bands in history.
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