Retail Price (not our price): $18.98 Release Date: 1990-10-25 Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Discs: 1

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1) Product Description
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kill Em All, the debut album from Metallica and in anticipation of the band's ninth studio albumlater this year Warner Bros. Records, under direct supervision from the band, are reissuingtheir early albums, Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And JusticeFor All, and Metallica (aka The Black Album) as both standard and deluxe vinyl editions. Ranked eighth on the list of the biggest sellinggroups in history, and one of the most influential bands in music, Metallica provedits mettle with these groundbreaking albums. Master Of Puppets was Hailed as a masterpieceby critics far outside heavy metal s core audience, MasterOf Puppets sold over half a million copies at its time ofrelease without any major video/radio airplay, making itthe band s first record to be certified Gold by the RIAA. Ithas since sold over six million copies in the U.S. alone. Itwas the last album the band recorded with bass playerCliff Burton before his death later that year. The albumhas also frequently been tagged by critics as one of themost influential heavy metal albums of all time. Yet by bookending the album with two slices of thrashmayhem ( Battery and Damage, Inc. ), the band reignstriumphant through sheer force of sound, of will, of malice.The arrangements are thick and muscular, and the materialvaries enough in texture and tempo to hold interest throughall its twists and turns. Some critics have called Master OfPuppets the best heavy metal album ever recorded; if itisn t, it certainly comes close. (All Music Guide) The Deluxe vinyl packagefeatures two 45 rpm 180g vinyl discs pressed at RTI inStoughton gatefold jacket with universal Louder FasterHeavier branded bellyband. The pressing was half-speedmastered from the original analog tapes at Mobile Fidelityfor the ultimate audiophile listening experience.

2) Amazon.com essential recording
One of the defining albums of thrash metal, Master of Puppets is arguably Metallica's best album (as well as their last with bassist Cliff Burton). Focusing on the concept of power and abuses thereof, this is a collection of complex, intelligent music, played at about a hundred miles an hour. Not that these are short songs; this eight-song album clocks in at over an hour, which makes it all the more impressive that not one moment on this recording is boring. In tackling various approaches to their subject, Metallica is insightful lyrically as well as musically: "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" is from the point of view of an institutionalized inmate and "Disposable Heroes" is the perspective of a soldier. If all you've heard of Metallica is what's been on the radio recently, check this one out. You're in for a surprise. --Genevieve Williams