Metallica - Master of Puppets – Speed Thrash Metal-Original Pressing-Rare
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Description
BAND: Metallica
ITEM: Master of Puppets LP
YEAR: 1986
LABEL: Vertigo
CONDITION (see legend below):
COVER GRADE: VERY GOOD +++
VINYL GRADE: NEAR MINT
Review
by Steve Huey
Even though Master of Puppets didn't take as gigantic a leap forward as Ride the Lightning, it was the band's greatest achievement, hailed as a masterpiece by critics far outside heavy metal's core audience. It was also a substantial hit, reaching the Top 30 and selling three million copies despite absolutely nonexistent airplay. Instead of a radical reinvention, Master of Puppets is a refinement of past innovations. In fact, it's possible to compare Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets song for song and note striking similarities between corresponding track positions on each record (although Lightning's closing instrumental has been bumped up to next-to-last in Master's running order). That hint of conservatism is really the only conceivable flaw here. Though it isn't as startling as Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets feels more unified, both thematically and musically. Everything about it feels blown up to epic proportions (indeed, the songs are much longer on average), and the band feels more in control of its direction. You'd never know it by the lyrics, though -- in one way or another, nearly every song on Master of Puppets deals with the fear of powerlessness. Sometimes they're about hypocritical authority (military and religious leaders), sometimes primal, uncontrollable human urges (drugs, insanity, rage), and, in true H.P. Lovecraft fashion, sometimes monsters. Yet by bookending the album with two slices of thrash mayhem ("Battery" and "Damage, Inc."), the band reigns triumphant through sheer force -- of sound, of will, of malice. The arrangements are thick and muscular, and the material varies enough in texture and tempo to hold interest through all its twists and turns. Some critics have called Master of Puppets the best heavy metal album ever recorded; if it isn't, it certainly comes close.
Title
Composer
Time
1
Battery
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
2
Master of Puppets
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
3
The Thing That Should Not Be
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
4
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
5
Disposable Heroes
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
8:38
6
Leper Messiah
Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
6:28
7
Orion
Hetfield, Ulrich
5:38
8
Damage, Inc.
Burton, Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich
5:08
Cover Grade Legend
Very Good+++ (VG+++) - Very little wear, nice finish
Very Good++ (VG++) - Very light wear including small amount of edge wear and/or surface/ring wear
Very Good+ (VG+) - Light to normal wear including some edge and/or surface/ring wear
Very Good (VG) - Normal to heavy wear including one or more rough or partially split edges
Very Good- (VG-) - One or more rough or partially split edges, affected by moisture or dampness.
Good (G) - Badly worn or damaged and/or including one or more completely split edges, barely usable
Vinyl Grade Legend
Sealed/Mint - Record is in original shrink wrap and has never been opened nor played
NM (Near Mint) - No visible flaws to vinyl
NM- (Near Mint-) - Well cared for, may have a very small number of very minor visible flaws such as very light paper scuffs
VG++ (Very Good++) - Still great condition, a few light scattered marks or scuffs
VG+ (Very Good+) - Normal wear with a small number of scattered scuffs or light scratches, still a nice record
VG (Very Good) - Mishandled, lots of light scratches or scuffs or maybe a few larger ones, surface noise when played
G (Good) - Trashed, might play decent, but heavily scratched (I probably wouldn't try to sell something in this condition)
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