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Master of Puppets

1986 studio album by Metallica
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Summary

Master of Puppets is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.15% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,183 views/month, #90 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: thrash metal[3]
  • Producer: Metallica[4], Flemming Rasmussen[5]
  • Performer: Metallica[6]
  • Record label: Elektra[7]
  • Place of publication: United States[8]
  • Part of: Metallica's albums in chronological order[9], Metallica studio albums discography[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Distribution format: LP record[12], compact disc[13], music streaming[14], music download[15]
  • Review score: 5[16]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Sweet Silence Studios[17]
  • Publication date: March 3, 1986[18]
  • Tracklist: Battery[19], Master of Puppets[20], The Thing That Should Not Be[21], Welcome Home (Sanitarium)[22], Disposable Heroes[23], Leper Messiah[24], Orion[25], Damage, Inc.[26]
  • Catalog: National Recording Registry[27]
  • Described at URL: https://www.metallica.com/releases/albums/release-4211.html[28]
  • Title: Master of Puppets[29]
  • Different from: Master of Puppets[30]
  • Duration: 3281 seconds[31]
  • Number of parts of this work: 8 audio track[32]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[33]
  • Recording date: September 1985[34], December 1985[35]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[36]

  • First release date: 1986-03-03[37]

  • Genre(s): hard rock, heavy metal, metal, progressive, progressive metal, rock, speed metal, thrash metal[38]

  • Community tags: aggressive, angry, energetic, hard rock, heavy, heavy metal, metal, political, progressive, progressive metal, rebellious, rock, serious, speed metal, technical, thrash metal[39]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3d00fb45-f8ab-3436-a8e1-b4bfc4d66913[40]

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Cultural Impact

Things named for Master of Puppets include Metallichneumon neurospastarchus[41], a taxon[42].

Why It Matters

Master of Puppets has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Entities named for it include Metallichneumon neurospastarchus[41], a taxon[42].

Related Entities

compact disc Elektra Metallica United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Apple Music. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . AllMusic. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . loc.gov. Retrieved . loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [39] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [40] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Leoconbass · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → —
    Record label → Elektra
    Different from → Master of Puppets
    Tracklist → Battery, Master of Puppets, The Thing That Should Not Be +5
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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