METALLICA — Master of Puppets (review)

METALLICA — Master of Puppets album cover Album · 1986 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
Master of Puppets represents that tantalisingly brief moment in time when Metallica attained a perfect balance of thrashy aggression and bombastic pomp to create a fusion greater than the sum of its parts. This is evident right from the start of the opening track, Battery, with its martial march giving way to a furiously angry thrash workout, and persists through to the end, with the prog-metal instrumental Orion giving way to album closer Damage Inc. in a final one-two punch. Truly a peak both of Metallica's career and of the mid-1980s thrash scene as a whole, this one must surely compete with Slayer's Reign In Blood for the title of best and most influential thrash metal album ever.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Drama Progressive Metal
MARTY FRIEDMAN
Buy this album from MMA partners
Xenocide Deathcore
XENOCIDE (IL)
Buy this album from MMA partners
What Is Death? Melodic Death Metal
UNHOLY ORPHEUS
Buy this album from MMA partners
Umbilical Sludge Metal
THOU
Buy this album from MMA partners
mXm Metalcore
MEDIOKRIST
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Mediokrist - Layer8
MEDIOKRIST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Mediokrist - Konvergenz
MEDIOKRIST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Mediokrist - menschXmaschine
MEDIOKRIST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Mediokrist - Datenstrom
MEDIOKRIST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
Mediokrist - Replikat
MEDIOKRIST
Bosh66· 1 day ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed