The single most overrated album in the history of heavy metal. Battery and the title track are good but the rest of the album is as average as average comes. This album in essence killed Metallica and derailed what was on course to be the greatest melodic thrash acts of all time. These bastards should have dissolved Metallica after the magnificent ride the lightning and started a new band altogether to produce the garbage that began taking root here and Metallica fed us with afterwards.

Written by Maasai Mara on 02.01.2019 at 22:35

The single most overrated album in the history of heavy metal. Battery and the title track are good but the rest of the album is as average as average comes. This album in essence killed Metallica and derailed what was on course to be the greatest melodic thrash acts of all time. These bastards should have dissolved Metallica after the magnificent ride the lightning and started a new band altogether to produce the garbage that began taking root here and Metallica fed us with afterwards.

The most overrated album ever?

I don't know, I really don't get it. I like other Metallica stuff. This often seems quite generic, honestly.

The mighty title track alone is superior to anything released by this band afterwards.

I honestly also thought this album was the most overrated thing ever until I actually listened it through few times. Nowadays it's one of my favourite albums of all time. Sadly, they haven't released anything even remotely this level of brilliance since.

If I remember correctly, Flemming Rasmussen wasn't happy with the rushed release and production of Master of Puppets, so when he later worked with the band Artillery he utilized some the original plans he had for this album. But this is just my wage memory, I don't remember where I actually read it.

After Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind and Deep Purple's Machine Head, Master of Puppets was the third "heavy" album I ever bought. That would have been around Feb/March '87. I was 15 and it changed my world. For the best part of six months, I listened to little else than Metallica. These days Ride & Master vie for position but usually, I say this is my favourite album of all time as it was the first.

Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.

Kill Em All and Justice are almost as good as well in my view (if a little bloated in the case of Justice). I always viewed the Black album as a solid but unspectacular record but since, it's been a case of ever diminishing returns. You could make a case for the odd good song scattered among the rest of their albums but I never play them.

01. Battery - 10/10
02. Master Of Puppets - 10/10
03. The Thing That Should Not Be - 10/10
04. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - 10/10
05. Disposable Heroes - 10/10
06. Leper Messiah - 10/10
07. Orion - 10/10
08. Damage, Inc. - 10/10

Overall: 10/10

This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal.

It killed heavy metal.

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 03.08.2020 at 08:28

This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal.

It killed heavy metal.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 03.08.2020 at 08:28

This album is the Nirvana "Smells like Teen Spirit" of heavy metal.

It killed heavy metal.

I don't get it. Is this some sort of ironic reference to that infamous rant in Metal Archives? You know, this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Metallica/Master_of_Puppets/547/UltraBoris/147

Written by Metal Rambo on 03.08.2020 at 13:01

I don't get it. Is this some sort of ironic reference to that infamous rant in Metal Archives? You know, this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Metallica/Master_of_Puppets/547/UltraBoris/147

I had no idea this pile of crap existed. I only managed to read the first 3-4 paragraphs and it stopped being funny fairly quickly. I wish we had it here for the comments alone.

01. Battery - 10/10 (killer)
02. Master Of Puppets - 8/10 (minus two points for the slow part)
03. The Thing That Should Not Be - 5/10 (boring)
04. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - 9/10 (great, could be thrashier)
05. Disposable Heroes - 6/10 (nothing special, not bad either)
06. Leper Messiah - 5/10 (eh)
07. Orion - 6/10 (starts good, drags later)
08. Damage, Inc. - 10/10 (another killer)

Overall: 7,375/10

Additional comments: One of the most overrated metal albums the world has ever seen, in my opinion. I cannot vote it very low though because there's some good songs to it. I can see the band going somewhat astray already on this album, something that more people acknowledge happening on later albums; it is in the overly long songs IMO; more thrash or some more interesting songwriting is needed. Anyway, I don't think this album killed metal: maybe it wasn't the best possible influence for the copycats, but whatever (grunge?) killed thrash came from outside rather inside of the genre.

Written by gavdann on 15.04.2020 at 12:02

Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.

I disagree, and am I poser LMAO? Other possibility is to say whoever agrees with you has either heard only two songs from MoP (=poser) or is being unrealistic

Written by Jope of Steele on 05.08.2020 at 00:16

Written by gavdann on 15.04.2020 at 12:02

Ride arguably contains more of their best songs but this contains it's fair share and is probably more consistent. Both are fucking classics. 10 out of 10. There should be no argument as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who disagrees is a fucking poseur or just doesn't like metal. You look at that track listing and there isn't a bad second of music on that record, let alone a bad track.

I disagree, and am I poser LMAO? Other possibility is to say whoever agrees with you has either heard only two songs from MoP (=poser) or is being unrealistic

How you can say Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are "Nothing special" or "eh" is beyond me.

Then again, I fucking despise Manowar so we're never going to agree!

Written by gavdann on 05.08.2020 at 11:35

How you can say Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are "Nothing special" or "eh" is beyond me.

Then again, I fucking despise Manowar so we're never going to agree!

I haven't seen anyone saying that Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are masterpiece songs or even best from this album. Of course fanboys will say that these songs are couple of points better than what I say, but if you translate their evaluation to my scoring -- aka minus the fanboy bias -- it will match almost perfectly: just lower 2-3 points from both songs

I'm not a Manowar advocate, look more closely -- I agree with you about Ride The Lighting though

Written by Jope of Steele on 06.08.2020 at 13:38

I haven't seen anyone saying that Disposable Heroes and Leper Messiah are masterpiece songs or even best from this album.

Disposable Heroes is a stone walled classic in my opinion. It might not be THE best on MoP but it's in my top 3 or 4. And although not many would claim Leper Messiah is one of Metallica's best tunes, as we're comparing with RtL it is better than "Escape"! It's a proper head banger.