Master Of Puppets is the third album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records.
Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it is the band's final album to feature bassist Cliff Burton. While touring in support of Master of Puppets, he died on September 27, 1986, after the band's tour bus was involved in an accident in Dörarp, Sweden.
The album's artwork, designed by Metallica and Peter Mensch and painted by Don Brautigam, depicts a cemetery field of white crosses tethered to strings, manipulated by a pair of hands in a clouded, blood-red sky, with a fiery orange glow on the horizon.
James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitars on "Battery", 1st guitar solo on "Master of Puppets", 2nd guitar solo on "Orion"
Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion
Kirk Hammett – lead guitar
Cliff Burton – bass, backing vocals
00:00 01 Battery
05:11 02 Master Of Puppets
13:44 03 The Thing That Should Not Be
20:18 04 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
26:44 05 Disposable Heroes
35:00 06 Leper Messiah
40:40 07 Orion
49:03 08 Damage, Inc.
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