Un arpeggio tenebroso seguito da un esplosione di riff devastanti. Questo è solo l'inizio... che ci avvia ad un solo di chitarra fulminante, spiegandoci a che velocità viene fatta scoppiare la "Battery".
Siamo al secondo episodio. Il primo di bellezza, di potenza, di tecnica, di velocità, di maestosità. È quasi stupido chiamarla "title-track". La si può definire capolavoro a sé. Otto minuti indimenticabili, che hanno fatto la storia del metal, la fanno e la faranno. Una composizione artistica mai presente in nessun album. Un gioiello crudele ma veritiero, purtroppo. Melodioso, emozionante e battente. Battente come è giusto che sia la canzone thrash metal più bella al mondo. La canzone per capire che cosa è la musica, per capire come va la vita, per capire che ruolo abbiamo noi, per capire chi erano Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammet e Burton, per capire chi erano i veri METALLICA.
La presuntuosa "The Thing That Not Should Be", che ripete sempre lo stesso riff maledetto, che si rifà alle opere di H.P. Lovercraft.
La "ballad" dell'album che parte triste e sinfonica per poi incedere in una ferocia moderata, ma sempre "metallica". "Welcome Home. Sanitarium" è semplicemente questo.
"Disposable Heroes", con un imponenza mai fuori luogo, l'assoluta velocità e la cattiveria di un generale che ordina il sacrificio dei codardi, poco utili in guerra.
La sesta traccia, aperta da sei "battute", come una marcia militare avanza potente e affilata, quasi sagace, con la sua richiesta di tempo, portata da un "Leper Messiah".
Apoteosi della tecnica, arriva lenta e sfocia prepotente: è "Orion", tecnicamente ed emotivamente una delle più belle canzoni mai fatte. Strumentale, ma commovente. La sua base ritmica, impossibile da non amare, eseguita in modo perfetto e cruento, che ci avvia all'oblio dell'emozione. Riff e melodie stupendi eseguiti e composti da dei veri geni, che trasportano chiunque nell’immenso universo, fino ad arrivare a quella costellazione tanto cara, quanto importante per Cliff.
La foce della rabbia è "Damage Inc.", che assume gli aspetti più intensi del vero thrash metal: la demolizione completa di qualsiasi barriera sonora.

Questo è Master of Puppets, l'album più famoso, più venduto, più significativo, più bello, più rappresentativo, più reale, più crudele. Con la sua copertina e i suoi testi, ispirati alla guerra, tristi, reali e sarcastici. Ideato da "quattro cavalieri", i veri ed unici.
L'ultimo album di thrash metal "puro". L’ultimo dove ancora non si pensava ai soldi, ma solo alla voglia di fare musica. L'album dove Lars, James, Kirk e Cliff suonano in modo irripetibile. L'ultimo dove si è avuto il piacere di ascoltare un grande compositore, come Cliff Lee Burton, morto ancor prima di avere la possibilità di diventare il più grande bassista al mondo.
Semplicemente il più grande capolavoro dei Metallica...

"COME CRAWLING FASTER / OBEY YOUR MASTER / YOUR LIFE BURNS FASTER / 0BEY YOUR MASTER / MASTER / MASTER OF PUPPETS I'M PULLING YOUR STRINGS / TWISTING YOUR MIND AND SMASHING YOUR DREAMS / BLINDED BY ME, YOU CAN'T SEE A THING / JUST CALL MY NAME, CAUSE I'LL HEAR YOU SCREAM / MASTER / MASTER / JUST CALL MY NAME, CAUSE I'LL HEAR YOU SCREAM / MASTER / MASTER..."

Elenco tracce testi samples e video

01   Battery (05:11)

Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay

Smashing through the boundries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery

Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity

Smashing through the boundries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery

Circle of Destruction, Hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, Dominating flurry
We create the Battery

Smashing through the boundries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery

02   Master of Puppets (08:38)

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear
Sucking darkest clear
Feeding on your death's construction

Taste me and you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror

Taste me and you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, master
Where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, master
You promised only lies
Laughter, laughter
All I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, laughter
Laughing at my cries
Fix me

Hell is worth all that
Natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze
Drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season

I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run though you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha

03   The Thing That Should Not Be (06:39)

Messenger of Fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light

Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for Father, roaming free

fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell

Crawling Chaos, underground
cult has summoned, twisted sound

Out from ruins once possessed
fallen city, living death

fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell

Not dead which eternal lie
stranger eons Death may die

drain you of your sanity
face The Thing That Should Not Be

fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell

04   Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (06:27)

Welcome to where time stands still
no one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
just labeled mentally deranged

Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, No windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
that dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
can't they see it's why my brain says Rage

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there
and cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
assuring me that I'm insane

They think our heads are in their hands
but violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
he's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
but they think this saves us from our Hell

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again.

05   Disposable Heroes (08:21)

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
a servant `til I fall

Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
do just as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away

Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman

Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
bodies fill the fields I see
the slaughter never ends

Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
do just as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away

Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman

Why, Am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, Hell is here

I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
had no chance to see myself, moulded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun

Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
do just as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away

Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman

Back to the front.

06   Leper Messiah (05:42)

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will

Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat

Bow to Leper Messiah

Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain, taken by his glamour
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see

Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat

Bow to Leper Messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
set the trap, hypnotize
now you follow

Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat

Lie.

07   Orion (08:27)

Instrumental

08   Damage, Inc. (05:31)

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end

[Chorus:]
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
[End Chorus]

Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall

[Chorus]

We chew and spit you out
we laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from

Damage Incorporated

Damage jackals ripping right through you
sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
step a little closer if you please

[Chorus].

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Altre recensioni

Di  Nowitzky

 Questo album è una perla nel panorama musicale degli ultimi anni, un disco da collezione.

 La title-track, Master Of Puppets, è esplosiva: tralasciando il testo, che va dall'autorità tirannica del 'Maestro Burattinaio' alla malinconia delle promesse fatte da quest'ultimo.


Di  joe strummer

 Master Of Puppets è un capolavoro, pur essendo di un genere non gradito a tutti, il fascino di queste canzoni è innegabile.

 Disposable Heroes è forse il miglior episodio dell'intera carriera dei Metallica, musica spigolosa, ostica, ma orchestrata perfettamente e perfettamente suonata.


Di  metallara1

 Il capolavoro di quattro grandi uomini che con questo hanno fatto LA STORIA DEL METAL!!!!

 Eè impossibile trovare dei termini che possano semplificare a parole la magia della loro musica.


Di  sweep picking

 Master of puppets trasuda, oltre a enorme maestria tecnica e compositiva, uno spirito di ribellione contro tutto e contro tutti.

 Il picco di inventiva viene raggiunto nelle strumentali Orion e The thing that should not be, dove è possibile dimostrare come un basso possa suonare come uno strumento solista.


Di  andreus90

 Un album che spaccava il culo.

 Damage Inc., una song che veramente spacca il culo e schianta i timpani, da sentire al massimo volume.