Metallica – ‘Master of Puppets’ [Retro Album Review]
Hey, what the… Wait one doggone minute — this AIN’T “Hotel California!” For mild-mannered music enthusiasts who grew up with cozy album rock radio during the shag-covered ‘70s, the reaction was pretty standard. In fact, the record was far heavier than anything most of us had heard before. However, the “ye of little faith” would become “believers” in relatively short order. Truth be told, the San Francisco-based brigade did NOT create the brash new brand of heavy metal known as thrash — a good many combos residing on both the east AND west coast already had discovered the sound years earlier. Land ahoy! But, Metallica does deserve mad props for energizing metal in the modern world on a global scale, just when the increasingly stagnant style really deserved a good bottom blistering. Wh...
