Metallica

Master Of Puppets

(1986)

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“MASTER Of Puppets was not only ahead of its time, but it was a foreshadowing of things to come – thanks to Metallica forging the blueprint.

“It had all the elements of what they had shown across their earlier albums yet it was also an indication of where they could and would go in the future. It utilised fast and slow speeds, complex parts and simple musical passages, melodic hooks but also intense hooks – where it’s not formally a chorus so much as a great shouted tagline.

“Songs like Master Of Puppets itself and Welcome Home (Sanitarium) are polar opposites from each other stylistically, but they exist in perfect harmony with each other on the same album. Those two songs are certainly the blueprints upon which most metal bands have built their versions of those songs.

“You can still to this day see what impact Master Of Puppets has had on the metal scene. From rhythm guitar, to bass, to leads, to clean guitars, to vocals and drums – you can trace every contemporary band back to this groundbreaking record.”