METALLICA - MASTER OF PUPPETS
Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Master of Puppets was originally released on March 3rd, 1986, on Elektra Records and went on to become the first Metallica album to be certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album has been certified six-times Platinum in the United States and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. In 2016, the album became the first metal album to be added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, an honor granted to works deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Recorded at the Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was their third album overall. Master of Puppets was the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident in Sweden during the album's promotional tour. TRACKS: A1 Battery 5:10A2 Master Of Puppets 8:38A3 The Thing That Should Not Be 6:32A4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 6:28B1 Disposable Heroes 8:14B2 Leper Messiah 5:38B3 Orion (Instrumental) 8:12B4 Dam