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Metallica Reflects on “Master of Puppets”: “We Pulled It Out of a Deep Place”

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Credit: Ross HalfinThe “visual history” of Metallica‘s seminal 1986 album Master of Puppets will be told in the forthcoming photo book Metallica: Back to the Front. In a new video for Rolling Stone, the members of the legendary metal band share their reflections on the album.

“I really feel that a lot of the music on Master of Puppets, we pulled it out of a deep place,” says guitarist Kirk Hammett in the clip. “A lot of it, it’s just so emotional, from the music to the lyrics to the guitar solos to even the arrangements. It’s so dramatic.”

Adds frontman James Hetfield, “It was still rebellious. Back then it was still the four of us in a van out to conquer the world.”

Master of Puppets celebrated its 30th anniversary this past spring, and, as Hammett points out, the album “never went away.”

“It still has not and there are no signs of it going away at all,” he says.

Metallica: Back to the Front hits bookshelves on September 13. Meanwhile, Metallica’s new album, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, will be released November 18.

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