TracksBattery 5:10, Master Of Puppets Guitar [First Solo] – James Hetfield 8:38, The Thing That Should Not Be 6:32, Welcome Home (Sanitarium) 6:28, Disposable Heroes 8:14, Leper Messiah 5:38, OrionGuitar [Second Solo] – James Hetfield 8:12, Damage Inc. 5:08
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NotesMaster of Puppets is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986 by Elektra Records. Recorded at the Sweet Silence Studios with producer Fleming Rasmussen, it was the first Metallica album released on a major label. Master of Puppets is the band's last album to feature bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus crash during the album's promotional tour. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and became the first thrash metal album to be certified platinum. It was certified 6× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2003 for shipping six million copies in the United States. The cover was designed by Metallica and Peter Mensch and painted by Don Brautigam. It depicts a cemetery field of white crosses tethered to strings, manipulated by a pair of hands in a blood-red sky.