Metallica — “Master of Puppets” Song Story A thrash-metal epic that turns addiction into a battlefield — and never lets up The opening of “Master of Puppets” doesn’t ease you in — it seizes you. That razor-tight riffing, the sudden stops, the precision-drilled downpicks: it’s Metallica sounding like a machine built for maximum pressure. And once the song locks into its march, it feels less like a track you listen to and more like something that drags you forward by the collar. At its core, “Master of Puppets” is a song about control — specifically, addiction as a dominating force […]

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