This was the bands third studio album released officially. The album had come under the thrash metal genre when it had been released. It is often said and proven by many that Master of Puppets Is one of the greatest albums of all time. Although there is not much history behind the album, it is still considered a big part of rock history. Adding on, a countless amount of people have regarded that Master of Puppets has been said to be the most influential metal album created.
All of the lyrics In the albums track list were written by James Hatfield and was produced by Fleming Rasmussen. Rasmussen was asked to produce this album because of his work on his recent album with the Rainbows Difficult to Cure. In Master of Puppets, the basic rock instruments were used such as the electric guitar, the drums, the bass, vocals and some studio effects. On many of the albums that were sold, there had been placed a MARC “explicit lyrics” label on each album due to the explicit lyrics and content in the song “damage, Inc. ” This is the only song in the album with cuss words or explicit lyrics.
Master of Puppets is the last album that you will hear Cliff Burton, the bassist, play in. Cliff Burton had ended up in a fatal bus crash In Sweden In September of 1986 while touring with the band for the album. The band and Danish producer Fleming Rasmussen had also paid a tribute to their fellow bass player. The album was recorded between September 1, 1985 through December 27, 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. When the album was finally fleshed, it came out to 54 minutes and 46 seconds. On the album Master of Puppets, the song “Master of Puppets” happens to be the cost listened to song out of all the tracks.
According to Gibson. Coma’s “top 50 metal songs of all time,” “Master of Puppets” had taken the number one spot on the chart and also had been used by ESP. to promote the MASCARA Nationwide Series. The title track had also been used in the comedy film “Old School” with Will Farrell. Another interesting fact about the album is that a few of the songs such as “Leper Messiah”, “Damage, Inc”, and “Battery” had appeared on the music video games “Guitar Hero” and “Rock Band. ” In the there can be many deferent meanings to each song, it Just upends on how a person Interprets It Individually.
For example, In the title track “Master of Puppets,” the song is about how you can become addicted to something (drugs in this case) to the point where it ruins you and tears you apart. Another example is “Welcome Home (Sanitarium” which is about a sane person who is locked In an Insane asylum and turns Insane because of the environment. Basically this song is about being locked in a mental prison. Anyways, in this album there are many messages to interpret in many different ways. The original album cover for Master of Puppets was painted by Don Brigham in 986.
The cover of the album shows a graveyard with all the white tombstones shaped as crosses with white strings attached to each one of them all leading to the hands of the “master of puppets. ” On one of the crosses there is a military helmet 1 OFF Inch relates to the music in the album. “This album had sold well over 6 million certified copies in the US,” it says in adumbration’s. Net. On everyone of Brougham’s album art works, he is said to sign them in the bottom right corner. The two songs that I have analyzed are “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” and ‘Disposable Heroes.
Both of these songs are very interesting lyrically and are great songs to listen to. “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” is about a perfectly sane person becomes trapped in his own thoughts and becomes insane. The cause of his insanity is the environment he is in which seems like a Jail. This leads to his mind to accept that killing is a way to escape. Next “Disposable Heroes” is about soldiers going to war and how the band is against war and all about peace. It also talks about how the soldier accepts death and knows it as if its in front of him ready for it to happen at any time.
For example “Greeting death he’s yours to take away,” the soldiers know that death is in their future. This song also relates to the military helmet and the ID tag on the crosses in the cover of the album. The band uses their songs to send out messages inside to their audiences who pay attention to their lyrics and take them to heart and mind. Metallic Master of Puppets was a very interesting and unique album to listen to. I thought that James Hatfield did a great Job using metaphors and phrases to describe “hat was going on in the songs. He had also done a very good Job in writing all of the ones overall.
Although, in my opinion some songs were Just to hard for me to understand. When I actually took the time to review the lyrics is when I started to understand the real meaning for some of the lyrics to the songs but, there are some songs that I do not understand what they are trying to say. I think the album art work IS good and relates to the songs in the album. My favorite song in the album might have to be “Welcome Home (Sanitarium). ” One more thing I really liked about this album is the fact that they used the acoustic and rhythmic guitar to fade into their fast pace songs.