Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 97/500!
TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 5/5 Sonics in the October 2008 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
Special Deluxe Edition featuring a 2LP 45rpm 180 gram vinyl set in a Premium Stoughton gatefold jacket!
Half Speed Mastered from the original analog tapes at Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs for the ultimate listening experience... Audiophile Quality, Louder, Faster, Heavier!!!
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kill 'Em All, the debut album from Metallica - and in anticipation of the band's ninth studio album later this year - Warner Bros. Records, under direct supervision from the band, are reissuing their early albums, Kell 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All, and Metallica (aka The Black Album) as both standard and deluxe vinyl editions. Ranked eighth on the list of the biggest selling groups in history, and one of the most influential bands in music, Metallica proved its mettle with these groundbreaking albums.
Master Of Puppets is hailed as a masterpiece by critics far outside heavy metals core audience. The album has also frequently been tagged by critics as "one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time."
"Yet by bookending the album with two slices of thrash mayhem ("battery" and "Damage, Inc."), the band reigns triumphant through sheer force - of sound, of will, of malice. The arrangements are thick and muscular, and the material varies enough in texture and tempo to hold interest through all its twists and turns. Some critics have call Master Of Puppets the best heavy metal album ever recorded; if it isn't, it certainly comes close." - All Music Guide
"Put mildly, this pressing takes its spot among the finest-sounding rock LPs around. Balances, images, and dimensions stun. And the phenomenal dynamic range allows contrasts to register with previously unimaginable impact. Pure genius." - Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, October 2008, Issue 185
"Metallica's third album has a lyrical theme: manipulation. "It deals pretty much with drugs," singer-guitarist James Hetfield said. "Instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you." It also has a sonic theme: really loud guitars, played fast, with no regard for the hair metal on the airwaves. When the band slows down on "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," it just emphasizes the unrelenting nature of the rest of the songs. Recorded during three months in Copenhagen, this was bassist Cliff Burton's last album with Metallica; he died in September 1986, when the band's bus crashed." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
• Limited Edition
• 1/2 Speed Mastered at Mobile Fidelity from original analog master tapes
• 45rpm 180 gram vinyl
• Double LP
• Premium Stoughton gatefold jacket
• Universal "Louder, Faster, Heavier" branded bellyband
Selections:
1. Battery
2. Master Of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion (Instrumental)
8. Damage, Inc.
