Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986) [Italian 1st press CD MFN 60]

Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Label:Music For Nations, Music For Nations
Catalog#:CDMFN 60, CD MFN 60
Format:CD, Album
Country:UK
Released:Mar 1986
Genre:Rock
Style:Speed Metal, Heavy Metal

Tracklist

1 Battery 5:13
2 Master Of Puppets 8:35
Guitar [First Solo] - James Hetfield
3 The Thing That Should Not Be 6:36
4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 6:26
5 Disposable Heroes 8:16
6 Leper Messiah 5:39
7 Orion 8:27
Guitar [Second Solo] - James Hetfield
8 Damage, Inc. 5:31

Credits
Arranged By - Hetfield* , Ulrich*
Artwork By [Cover Concept] - Metallica , Peter Mensch
Artwork By [Cover Illustration] - Don Brautigam
Artwork By [Inner Sleeve Pictures] - Ross Halfin
Bass - Cliff Burton
Drums - Lars Ulrich
Engineer [Assistant Mixing] - Mark Wilzcak
Guitar [Lead] - Kirk Hammett
Mastered By - George Marino
Mixed By - Michael Wagener
Photography [Cliff] - Rich Likong
Photography [Kirk, James] - Ross Halfin
Photography [Lars] - Bob Ellis
Producer - Metallica
Producer, Engineer - Flemming Rasmussen
Vocals, Guitar [Rhythm], Lyrics By - James Hetfield
Written-By - Burton* (tracks: 2, 7, 8) , Hetfield* , Hammett* (tracks: 2 to 5, 8) , Ulrich*

Notes
Recorded Sept.-Dec. 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.

All songs published by Creeping Death Music, ASCAP
(p) 1986 Music For Nations

Barcode: 5016583106027
CD matrix: CDMFAN 60 * .MASTERED. .BY NIMBUS.
Made In England
Issued under license from Megaforce Records.

From "Wikipedia":

Master of Puppets is the third album by American heavy metal band Metallica. The album was released on March 3, 1986 through Elektra Records and was met with high critical reception.

"Puppets" is now considered a classic heavy metal album by fans, critics, and the band members themselves alike.[citation needed] It reached #29 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart and was the band's first Gold record for sales of 500,000 copies. This was done without any radio airplay or the release of a single or music video. The album is now 6× Platinum in the U.S.

Master of Puppets marks the last recording by bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident while on tour to promote the album.

According to Allmusic's Steve Huey, Master of Puppets "was the band's greatest achievement." "Some critics have called Master of Puppets the best metal album ever recorded", Huey noted.[1] Master of Puppets has been featured on several "greatest albums of all time" lists. The album is present in a list dubbed "The All-TIME 100 Albums" published by TIME magazine in November 2006.[2] In TIME critic Josh Tyrangiel's opinion, "Metallica didn't bother with hooks or pop discipline" in writing Master of Puppets.[2] IGN rated the album as being at first position in a list of the "Top 25 Metal Albums" issued in January 2007.[3] The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and Q magazine counted it among the 50 heaviest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 167 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album has frequently been tagged by critics as "one of the most influential thrash metal albums of all time."[4]

As an early parody of the PMRC's "explicit lyrics" warning labels, many prints of Metallica's 1986 release of Master of Puppets sported an octagonal sticker on the front saying:

"The only track you probably won't want to play is "Damage, Inc." due to the multiple use of the infamous "F" word. Otherwise, there aren't any "Shits", "Fucks", "Pisses", "Sucks", "Cunts", "Motherfuckers" or "Cocksuckers" anywhere on this record."

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release, Metallica played the album in its entirety on their Escape from the Studio '06 tour for the first time ever at the Rock am Ring festival on June 3, 2006. These concerts included the first-ever complete performances of the instrumental "Orion" (previously only portions of the song's lengthy middle section had been performed onstage as part of instrumental medleys and bass solos).

The title track was ranked Number 51 in the "The Greatest Guitar Solos" from Guitar World. In 2006, the album was voted the fourth "greatest guitar album of all time" in Guitar World. And the April 5th edition of Kerrang! was dedicated to it, providing readers with the cover album "Master of Puppets: Remastered". In March 2007, the guitar magazine Total Guitar ranked the 100 greatest riffs of all time and the main riff of the album's title track was ranked number one.

"Damage, Inc." is the last of four songs to feature writing from all members of the Cliff Burton-Kirk Hammett era of Metallica.

Every song from this album except "Leper Messiah" and "Damage, Inc." is playable on the music video game Guitar Hero: Metallica. The song "Battery" is featured in the game Rock Band 2.



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Note about the covers included: covers are of a more recent edition with different catalog numbers. I haven't got a scanner, so i posted the covers i've found on the net. BE PATIENT!!!