Master of Puppets is Metallica's third album, released February 21, 1986, by Elektra Records. It is considered by many to be the greatest heavy metal album of all time. The album reached No. 29 on "The Billboard magazine 200" chart. It was the last album the band recorded with Cliff Burton
| [[Image:Metallica-MasterOfPuppets.jpg|It's cover shows a cemetery, attached by puppet strings to a pair of controlling hands above. ]] |
| Table of contents |
|
2 Track listing 3 Personnel |
The album is almost a concept album, in that the topic of people as puppets runs through most of the songs on the album; lead by anger in "Battery", addiction in "Master of Puppets", madness in "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", religion in "Leper Messiah", soldiers as cannon fodder in "Disposable Heroes"; to stretch the point somewhat, even the reference to the Cthulhu Mythos in "The Thing That Should Not Be" brings to mind the followers of a cult, and "Orion", the hunter of Greek myth, was killed by Artemis after he became her follower. "Damage Inc.", the album's final track, is a call of non-conformity, to cut the strings of the puppet master.
The album's cover gives hint to some of the threads of the album. The cover shows a veteran's cemetery, with crosses as grave stones; which draws to mind both the dead soldiers of "Disposable Heroes", and the followers of the corrupt preacher of "Leper Messiah"; attached by puppet strings to a pair of controlling hands above.
Interpretation
Track listing
Personnel
