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 hrash 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.
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More troops going to Iraq...You know I look into his eye's and I can't be him! No fucking way! Ya I know People say power corrupt's but some motherfukers are just fduching born dammed evil! Deceptive Straight from Fucking HeLL!!! No Fucking Concience!!! No Barganing with these white CoLLer KunT PuNKs!!! ThErE Is OnLy ! WaY Too DeaL With TheM!!! They Don't Care Their Action Speak they are their ...
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More troops going to Iraq...You know I look into his eye's and I can't be him! No fucking way! Ya I know People say power corrupt's but some motherfukers are just fduching born dammed evil! Deceptive Straight from Fucking HeLL!!! No Fucking Concience!!! No Barganing with these white CoLLer KunT PuNKs!!! ThErE Is OnLy ! WaY Too DeaL With TheM!!! They Don't Care Their Action Speak they are their ...
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you *FUCKING CLOWNS*so you want metal up your ass clearly over qualityFUCKING PIMPS CAN DO THIS TOOHyman ain't even got to post a video #2 cause *NOTHING* RAWKS HARDER THAN THIS(i had to let him win ONE)you know so it don't look like i cheated n shit*RAWK DEEZ NUTZ*oh BTWSRV is clearly superb over RAGEback to RAWK 101 for you rockpuppiesso go on over there and tell DAVEhe lost this round k?
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this twisted view of God is awesome...it explains what most people who don't want to belive in God really think God is like, if there was one...It shows that even James and Kirk and Lars were all lost and searching for a higher power at one time, good thing they finally came to a belief in God...Jack's dip in the pool in Bethesda(John 5)Tyler Durden
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...with this video right here. Ugh. Double Ugh!Now, myself, Lester and I prefer our Metallica more like, this...But that's just us. Thoughts?
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there is nothing worse in this life,cept for the death of those, of watching your best friend succumb to the scourge of drug addiction.been there done that...and you are powerless to stop it......i hate drugs...it has taken the best from usso now i'm drunk and on the freakin' pity pot!i want to scream,cry and die*WHY?*I SICK OF ALL THIS SHITyou would think with my experience and insight i could...
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Lester Jonze -> I for one, missed the hell out-ya -> good to have you home,In the words of Phil Anselmo, "This next song goes out to everybody out there that never gave up on the f&&&%$ heavy music...ever...everybody who ignored all these weak a$$ fu%%$$% trends, and all these pussy whipped fu%%$$# ideas, FU%$ 'EM ALL"And Lester, you definetely RAAAWWWKKKKK! -> Look to my next post for the trac...
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I don't think Kirk Hammett was looking at the Star system Orion whenhe wrote the guitar part to this song...but it is a classic none the lessers...Jack's perfect english,Tyler Durden
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I am still waiting for people to answer my best question....If you were tied to the train tracks, and there is no hope for escape, you have lets say 10 minutes to live, what song would you listen to???Thanks LesterJones for giveing me a reason to change the time limit!!!Jack's curiosity killed the cat,Tyler Durden
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Great song...I sat and learned how to play every note on this album, it was a long 2 days to get them all right and play them all 20 times....Jack's tootsie roll on a stick,Tyler Durden
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Call me bizare or something worse, but with my roots in heavy metal and classic rock, I am currently listening to Alicia Keys 'No one'....but it is a really cool song...and so is 'A Fine Frenzy' Almost lover song...Jack's feminine side,Tyler Durden
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have you heard the original version that Dave Mustaine wrote when he was in Metallica...well Megadeth did it like 4 times faster which sounds like it would be really sloppy, but dave and the Gang play it masterfully...Jack's love for Metal,Tyler Durden
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You know what gets me??? you sit on the magical porcelain chair, the one that flushes all your worries and strains away...when you reach for some industrial wiping paper, and you unroll 4 or 5 sheets, and you give a yank, and it's an uneven break, and you get the 'tearing tail' that is like a 1/2" wide and it tears all the way through 3 sheets and now the piece you are holding is boogered up, a...
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| 1 Battery |
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| 2 Master of Puppets |
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| 3 The Thing That Should Not Be |
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| 4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) |
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| 5 Disposable Heroes |
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| 6 Leper Messiah |
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| 7 Orion [Instrumental] |
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| 8 Damage, Inc. |
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