Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Battery	5:10
A2	Master Of Puppets Soloist, Guitar [1st Solo] – Hetfield*	8:38
A3	The Thing That Should Not Be	6:32
A4	Welcome Home (Sanitarium)	6:28
B1	Disposable Heroes	8:14
B2	Leper Messiah	5:38
B3	Orion Soloist, Bass [4th Solo] – Burton*Soloist, Guitar [2nd Solo] – Hetfield*	8:12
B4	Damage, Inc.	5:08

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Music For Nations
• Copyright (c) – Creeping Death Music
• Licensed From – Megaforce Records
• Published By – Creeping Death Music
• Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios
• Mixed At – Amigo Studios
• Mastered At – Sterling Sound
• Pressed By – CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton

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 , 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

First pressing.
Album released with a printed inner sleeve with lyrics, credits and photos.
Includes a merchandise leaflet with 1986 European tour dates.
- 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

• Matrix / Runout (Side A, crossed out, Variant 1, 4): RR 9917
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, Variant 1): RR 9717 MFN-60-B3
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, Variant 1): 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
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Variant 3): MFN 60-A7 [Etched] ⋀ C 3 [Stamped]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Variant 3): MFN 60 B10 [Etched] ⋀ 1 C [Stamped]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Stamped, Variant 4): RR 9717
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Etched, Variant 4): MFN-60-A-4
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Etched, Variant 4): MFN 60 B10
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Stamped, Variant 5): RR 9917 [Scratched Out] RR 9717 C
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A - Etched, Variant 5): MFN-60-A.4
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Stamped, Variant 5): C
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B - Etched, Variant 5): MFN 60 B10
• Rights Society: ASCAP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
60439-1, 9 60439-1	Metallica	Master Of Puppets ‎(LP, Album)	Elektra, Elektra	60439-1, 9 60439-1	US	1986
none	Metallica	Master Of Puppets ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	Not On Label (Metallica)	none	Russia	Unknown
MFN 60	Metallica	Master Of Puppets ‎(LP, TP)	Music For Nations	MFN 60	UK	1986
50 107-2	Metallica	Master Of Puppets ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Popron	50 107-2	Czechoslovakia	1991
none	Metallica	Master Of Puppets ‎(Cass, Album, Unofficial)	Not On Label (Metallica)	none	Bulgaria	Unknown

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