Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' at 30: 'We Were Just Kids'

t was a crazy time,” Ulrich remembers of the summer of 1985. That spring, band members had wrapped months of touring in support ofand returned home to the San Francisco Bay area. Hammett went camping and fishing, according to a, while Hetfield and Ulrich traveled around the country, following Deep Purple.

“There’s a spark or spontaneity or impulsiveness that happens when you’re in your twenties,” Ulrich says. “We wrotein probably eight weeks over that summer. Nowadays, it takes me eight weeks just to drive own to the studio. It’s like, ‘What the fuck did we do in the summer of ’85 where we could just give birth to that from the first note to the last note in eight weeks?’took us probably 18 months from when we started writing to when we started recording.

at the Reading Festival in 1992. Metallica would later record the other two songs again with bassist Jason Newsted – “Green Hell” would be combined with another Misfits song, “Last Caress,” for 1987’s, and “The Prince” would become the B side to their 1988 single “One.”Master of Puppets “My favorite song is ‘Master of Puppets,'” Burton said in a 1986 interview reprinted in K.J. Doughton’s book“That one took some time,” Rasmussen recalls. “There are a lot of different parts and melodies, but it’s a primo song.” To tighten up the sound, the producer remembers asking the band to tune their instruments slightly lower than usual so they could mix with the tapes running faster so it sounded like it would be in tune.

“We got into a huge, huge game of liar’s dice, and it ended in a big, drunk wrestling match with Mercyful Fate.”– Kirk Hammett “He had a different sort of feel and approach than the rest of us,” he continues. “It was much welcomed.”

Yes I have Master of Puppets!

Sinatra_Jay I got this album on cassette the day it came out

CeliLoraOficial Awesome & Fantástic Album!!!! Love it!!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

NYCFirm They were young; this was before they went corporate and took down Napster in the cause of IP rights.

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