Metallica - Master of Puppets
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Mar 1986
Genre: Rock
Style: Thrash, Heavy Metal
Tracklist
Side A
A1 Battery 5:10
A2 Master Of Puppets 8:38
A3 The Thing That Should Not Be 6:32
A4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 6:28
SideB
B1 Disposable Heroes 8:14
B2 Leper Messiah 5:38
B3 Orion 8:12
B4 Damage, Inc. 5:08
Companies etc
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Music For Nations
Licensed From – Megaforce Records
Published By – Creeping Death Music
Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios
Mixed At – Amigo Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Credits
Arranged By – Hetfield*, Ulrich*
Bass, Backing Vocals – Cliff Burton
Design Concept [Cover Concept] – Metallica, Peter Mensch
Drums – Lars Ulrich
Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen
Illustration [Cover] – Don Brautigam
Lead Guitar – Kirk Hammett
Lyrics By – Hetfield*
Management – Q-Prime, Inc.*
Management [Agency Representation] – John Jackson (18), Marsha Vlasic
Mastered By – George Marino
Mixed By – Michael Wagener
Mixed By [Assistant] – Mark Wilzcak*
Photography By [Back Cover - Cliff] – Rich Likong
Photography By [Back Cover - Lars] – Rob Ellis*
Photography By [Inner Sleeve, Back Cover - Kirk & James] – Ross Halfin
Producer – Flemming Rasmussen, Metallica
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – James Hetfield
Written-By – Burton* (tracks: A2, B3, B4), Hetfield*, Hammett* (tracks: A2 to B1, B4), Ulrich*
Notes
Released with a printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos. Includes a merchandise leaflet with 1986 European tour dates.
Useful identifiers:
- album has no barcode
- no country on labels
- all white text on back cover
Recorded between September and December 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.
Issued under license from Megaforce Records.
All lyrics © 1985 Creeping Death Music. ASCAP
℗ 1986 Music For Nations
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
Matrix / Runout (Side A, crossed out): RR 9917
Matrix / Runout (Side A): RR 9717 MFN-60-B3
Matrix / Runout (Side B): MFN 60-A7
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A & B - Stamped / Variant 2): RR 9717
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Etched / Variant 2): MFN 60 A3
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Etched / Variant 2): MFN 60 B3
Rights Society: ASCAP
