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| Master of Puppets
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| Album by Metallica
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| Released
| February 21, 1986
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| Recorded
| Sweet Silence Studios Copenhagen, Denmark Sept- Dec, 1985
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| Genre
| Thrash Metal
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| Length
| 54 min 41 sec
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| Record label
| Elektra
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| ProducerIn the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. In earlier days, record producers bore the title of A&R men for Artists and Repertory which gives a clearer picture of
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Flemming Rasmussen
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| Metallica Chronology
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Ride the Lightning
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| Master of Puppets
( 1986)
| ...And Justice For AllAnd Justice for All is Metallica's fourth album, released August 8, 1988, by Elektra Records. Overview The third album in an unofficial trilogy of Metallica albums that includes Ride the Lightning (1984) and Master of Puppets (1986), . And Justice For All
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Master of Puppets is Metallica's third album, released February 21, 1986, by Elektra Records. The album reached No. 29 on "The Billboard magazine 200" chart. It was the last album the band recorded with Cliff Burton and it is considered a landmark in the history of heavy metal.
1 Interpretation
The album is almost a concept album in that the theme of people as puppets runs through most of the songs on the album. Many of the songs deal with a particular "master": anger in "Battery", addiction in "Master of Puppets", madness in "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", and religion in "Leper Messiah". In addition, the notion of soldiers as cannon fodder is explored in "Disposable Heroes" and, to stretch the point somewhat, even the reference to the Cthulhu Mythos in "The Thing That Should Not Be" brings to mind the followers of a cult; "Orion", the hunter of Greek myth, was killed by Artemis after he became her follower. "Damage Inc.", the album's final track, is a call of non-conformity, to cut the strings of the puppet master.
The album's cover gives hint to some of the threads of the album. The cover shows a military cemetery with crosses as grave stones, bringing to mind both the dead soldiers of "Disposable Heroes" as well as the followers of the corrupt preacher of "Leper Messiah". The grave stones are attached by strings to a pair of controlling, puppet master-like, hands reaching down from above. Note that the leftmost cross in the front has a helmet hanging on it, and the dog tags on the cross in the middle. These are clearer references to "Disposable Heroes".
