An album of firsts and lasts forMetallicahit the street on March 3, 1986.Master of Puppetswas the band’s first record for a major label; their first to make the American Top 30; their last with original bassist Cliff Burton, who tragically was killed during a bus crash while they were...
Learn how to play every Metallica song from Master Of Puppets on the guitar with this online metal guitar course. The ultimate guitar lessons for Metallica fans!
Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is a classic, and you expect to hear it a certain way. But that doesn't mean that after 37 years that guitarist Kirk Hammett hasn't tired of playing the song's revered guitar solo. The guitarist expressed as much during an upcoming Total Guitar interview...
Today,Master of Puppetsis widely acknowledged as the album that propelled thrash metal into the mainstream. The songs were pugnacious and explosive, but they were also meticulously crafted and expertly arranged. Combining machine gun tempos and barbed, staccato riffing (“Battery,” "Disposable Hero...
Anthony Vincent, the YouTube musician and creator of the Ten Second Songs video series, is back with what he calls "Master of Puppets in 50 Styles." Indeed, that means he sings the 1986 Metallica title track in 50 different ways over a single reading of the tune, including in the dispar...
Stranger Things has shone a light on the classic 80s thrash-metal masterpiece Master of Puppets. We tell you how to get the sound!
The guitarist also feels that they were doing something different at the time that stood out from the rest. "A lot of the music from that time now sounds samey and similar," he adds. "But there's really nothing onMaster of Puppetsthat dates it to any particular period — sound-wise,...
"If slipknot wrote master of puppets it’d be better than this, but here’s my take!," wrote Taylor humbly on the social media platforms, then settling in behind the kit to pound away at a feverish pace, only to match that ferocity and intensity in cutaway shots to playing the guitar...
Limp Bizkit have a history of covering Metallica's iconic "Master of Puppets" at their live shows stretching all the way back to the '90s. And, wouldn't you know it, the Fred Durst-led nu-metal band's version is a lot better than one might initially think!
1. Well,none of us predicted“Master of Puppets” (or Metallica in general) to be the big sync winner from the second half of Stranger Things’ fifth season. Now that it’s here and triumphant, does it make sense to you as the show’s latest showcased ’80s track to go newly viral...