Metallica - Master of Puppets

Artist: Metallica
Album: Master of Puppets
Type: Full-length
Release date: February 21st, 1986
Catalog ID: 60439-1
Label: Elektra Records
Format: 12" vinyl (33⅓ RPM)
MP3 | 320Kbps | 54:45 | 125Mb

Tracklist:
1. Battery  05:13
2. Master of Puppets  08:36
3. The Thing That Should Not Be  06:37
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)  06:28
5. Disposable Heroes  08:17
6. Leper Messiah  05:41
7. Orion  08:28  instrumental
8. Damage, Inc.  05:30

The album's central themes are dishonesty and deception.

As a reaction to the PMRC language warning labels, Metallica put a sticker in the shape of a stop sign on early pressings of this album that read: "The only track you probably won't want to play is 'Damage, Inc.' due to the multiple uses of the infamous 'F' word. Otherwise, there aren't any 'shits', 'fucks', 'pisses', cunts', 'motherfuckers', or 'cocksuckers' anywhere on this record."

"The Thing That Should Not Be" is based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Shadow Over Innsmouth".

The swelling bass intro to "Damage, Inc." is based on a Johann Sebastian Bach piece, titled "Come, Sweet Death". Cliff Burton studied Bach as a teenager.

Recorded from September to December, 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed at Amigo Studios in North Hollywood, California.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.

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