Editing Master of Puppets (section)

==Accolades and legacy==
''Master of Puppets'' has appeared in several publications' best album lists. It was ranked number 167 on the list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]],<ref>{{cite magazine|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/metallica-master-of-puppets-20120524|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=May 31, 2009|access-date=July 29, 2013|archive-date=July 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715052503/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/metallica-master-of-puppets-20120524|url-status=dead}}</ref> maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/metallica-master-of-puppets-2-156844/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=September 18, 2019| archive-date=August 17, 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817073646/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/metallica-master-of-puppets-2-156844/| url-status=live}}</ref> and upgrading to number 97 in a 2020 revised list.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/metallica-master-of-puppets-3-1063136/| year=2020| title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=April 1, 2021| archive-date=July 15, 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715145134/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/metallica-master-of-puppets-3-1063136/| url-status=live}}</ref> The magazine would also later rank it second on its 2017 list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time", behind [[Black Sabbath]]'s ''[[Paranoid (album)|Paranoid]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Grow|first1=Kory|title=100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/anthrax-among-the-living-1987-w486946|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=Wenner Media LLC|access-date=June 22, 2017|date=June 21, 2017|archive-date=June 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624025337/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-w486923/anthrax-among-the-living-1987-w486946|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' included the album in its list of the 100 best albums of all time. According to the magazine's [[Josh Tyrangiel]], ''Master of Puppets'' reinforced the velocity of playing in heavy metal and diminished some of its clichés.<ref name="TIME">{{cite magazine|last=Tyrangiel|first=Josh|author-link=Josh Tyrangiel|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/slide/master-of-puppets/|title=The All-TIME 100 Albums: Master of Puppets|magazine=Time|date=October 13, 2006|access-date=October 22, 2014|archive-date=April 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421031649/https://entertainment.time.com/2006/11/02/the-all-time-100-albums/slide/master-of-puppets/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' placed the album at number 90 on its list of the best albums of the 1980s, saying ''Master of Puppets'' is Metallica's best and most sincere recording.<ref name="Slant">{{cite web|title=Best Albums of the 1980s|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/best-albums-of-the-1980s/308/page_2/P2|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=March 5, 2012|access-date=July 26, 2013|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927225607/http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/best-albums-of-the-1980s/308/page_2/P2|url-status=live}}</ref> The album is featured in Robert Dimery's book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref name="1001albums">{{cite book|title=[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]|year=2005|editor-first=Robert|editor-last=Dimery|first=Joel|last=McIver|edition=1st|publisher=Universe Publishing|isbn=978-0-7893-1371-3|page=548}}</ref> [[IGN]] named ''Master of Puppets'' the best heavy metal album of all time. The website stated it was Metallica's best because it "built upon and perfected everything they had experimented with prior" and that "all the pieces come together in glorious cohesion".<ref>{{cite web|author1=Ed T.|author2=Spence D.|title=Top 25 Metal Albums|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/01/20/top-25-metal-albums?page=7|website=IGN|date=January 19, 2007|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310110749/https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/01/20/top-25-metal-albums?page=7|url-status=live}}</ref> Music journalist [[Martin Popoff]] also ranked it the best heavy metal album.<ref>{{cite book|last=Popoff|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Popoff|title=The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time|year=2004|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-55022-600-3|pages=Chapter 1}}</ref> ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]'' ranked the album as the second greatest rock and metal album of all time, behind [[AC/DC]]'s ''[[Back in Black]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rensen |first=Michael |title=Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten |publisher=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]] |year=2005 |isbn=3-89880-517-4 |editor-last=Rensen |editor-first=Michael |page=229 |language=de |trans-title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |chapter=Master of Puppets |access-date=May 8, 2024 |chapter-url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/metallica-master-of-puppets |archive-date=May 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508135839/https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/metallica-master-of-puppets |url-status=live }}</ref> The album was voted the fourth greatest guitar album of all time by ''[[Guitar World]]'' in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/50-greatest-guitar-albums?page=0,4|title=50 Greatest Guitar Albums|work=[[Guitar World]]|date=February 19, 2009|access-date=June 9, 2013|archive-date=January 5, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105035837/http://www.guitarworld.com/50-greatest-guitar-albums?page=0,4|url-status=live}}</ref> and the title track ranked number 61 on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar solos.<ref>{{cite web|title=100 Greatest Guitar Solos: 51–100 |url=http://www.guitarworld.com/100_greatest_guitar_solos_51100?page=0%252C1,1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016004729/http://www.guitarworld.com/100_greatest_guitar_solos_51100?page=0%2C1%2C1 |archive-date=October 16, 2014 |work=[[Guitar World]] |date=October 30, 2008 |access-date=July 30, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Total Guitar]]'' ranked the main riff of the title track at number 7 among the top 20 guitar riffs.<ref>{{cite news|title=Guns N' Roses top rock riff poll|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3677965.stm|work=BBC News|date=May 2, 2004|access-date=July 31, 2013|archive-date=August 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814230144/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3677965.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The April 2006 edition of ''Kerrang!'' was dedicated to the album and gave away to readers the cover album ''Master of Puppets: Remastered''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Machine Head, Trivium, Mastodon Pay Tribute to Metallica On 'Remastered' CD|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/machine-head-trivium-mastodon-pay-tribute-to-metallica-on-remastered-cd/|work=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=March 21, 2006|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150129/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/machine-head-trivium-mastodon-pay-tribute-to-metallica-on-remastered-cd/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Master of Puppets'' became thrash metal's first platinum album and by the early 1990s thrash metal successfully challenged and redefined the mainstream of heavy metal. Metallica and a few other bands headlined arena concerts and appeared regularly on [[MTV]], although radio play remained incommensurate with their popularity.<ref name="Walser">{{cite book|author1=Walser, Robert|display-authors=etal|editor=Nicholls, David|editor-link=David Nicholls (musicologist)|date=November 19, 1998|title=The Cambridge History of American Music|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory0000unse_y6c4/page/378 378]|isbn=0-521-45429-8|author-link1=Robert Walser (musicologist)|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory0000unse_y6c4/page/378}}</ref> ''Master of Puppets'' is widely accepted as the genre's most accomplished album, and paved the way for subsequent development.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bayer|first=Gerd|title=Heavy Metal Music in Britain|year=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited|isbn=978-0-7546-6423-9|page=82}}</ref> The album, in the words of writer [[Christopher Knowles (comics)|Christopher Knowles]], "ripped Metallica away from the underground and put them atop the metal mountain".<ref>{{cite book|last=Knowles|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Knowles (comics)|title=The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll|year=2010|publisher=Cleis Press|isbn=978-1-57344-564-1|page=163}}</ref> David Hayter from ''Guitar Planet'' recognized the album as one of the most influential records ever made and a benchmark by which other metal albums should be judged.<ref name="Guitar Planet">{{cite web|last=Hayter|first=David|title=Classic Album of the month: Metallica – Master of puppets|url=http://www.guitarplanet.eu/classic-album-of-the-month-metallica-master-of-puppets.html|website=Guitar Planet|date=March 22, 2011|access-date=July 31, 2013|archive-date=March 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303205932/http://www.guitarplanet.eu/classic-album-of-the-month-metallica-master-of-puppets.html|url-status=live}}</ref> MTV's Kyle Anderson had similar thoughts, saying that 25 years after its release the album remained a "stone cold classic".<ref>{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=Kyle|title=Metallica's Master Of Puppets Turns 25|url=http://newsroom.mtv.com/2011/03/03/metallica-master-of-puppets/|publisher=MTV|date=March 3, 2011|access-date=July 31, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609020622/http://newsroom.mtv.com/2011/03/03/metallica-master-of-puppets/|archive-date=June 9, 2012}}</ref> Carlos Ramirez from [[Noisecreep]] believes that ''Master of Puppets'' stands as one of the most representative albums of its genre.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ramirez|first=Carlos|title=Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' Celebrates 25th Anniversary|url=http://www.noisecreep.com/2011/03/31/metallicas-master-of-puppets-celebrates-25th-anniversary/|website=[[Noisecreep]]|date=March 31, 2011|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=August 22, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822133509/http://www.noisecreep.com/2011/03/31/metallicas-master-of-puppets-celebrates-25th-anniversary|url-status=live}}</ref>

The year 1986 is seen as a pinnacle year for thrash metal in which the genre broke out of the underground due to albums such as [[Megadeth]]'s ''[[Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?]]'' and [[Slayer]]'s ''[[Reign in Blood]]''. [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] released ''[[Among the Living]]'' in 1987, and by the end of the year these bands, alongside Metallica, were being called the "Big Four" of thrash metal.<ref name=McIver/> ''Master of Puppets'' frequently tops critic and fan polls of favorite thrash metal albums. Histories of the band tend to position ''Ride the Lightning'', ''Master of Puppets'', and ''...And Justice for All'' as a trilogy over the course of which the band's music progressively matured and became more sophisticated.<ref name="Pillsbury">{{cite book|first=Glenn T.|last=Pillsbury|title=Damage Incorporated: Metallica and the Production of Musical Identity|pages=34, 53–54, 61–63, 72–73|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-97374-8}}</ref> In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]] and was selected for preservation in the [[National Recording Registry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Metallica First Metal Recording in US Historical Registry|url=https://news.yahoo.com/metallica-first-metal-recording-us-historical-registry-183829175.html|agency=AFP|date=March 23, 2016|access-date=March 23, 2016|archive-date=March 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328061708/http://news.yahoo.com/metallica-first-metal-recording-us-historical-registry-183829175.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Metallica Master of Puppets album"/>

''[[Kerrang!]]'' released a tribute album titled ''Master of Puppets: Remastered'' with the April 8, 2006, edition of the magazine to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ''Master of Puppets''. The album featured cover versions of Metallica songs by [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]], [[Bullet for My Valentine]], [[Chimaira]], [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]], [[Mendeed]], and [[Trivium (band)|Trivium]]—all of which are influenced by Metallica.

The title track was also featured in the [[Stranger Things season 4|fourth season]] finale of the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Stranger Things]]'', as the character [[Eddie Munson]] plays the song in the Upside Down dimension to draw the dimension's monsters away from his friends.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Korrs |first1=Ivan |title=Metallica's 'Masters of Puppets' Streaming Surge Possible After 'Stranger Things' Feature |url=https://www.musictimes.com/articles/85658/20220701/metallicas-masters-puppets-streaming-surge-possible-stranger-things-feature.htm |access-date=July 3, 2022 |date=July 1, 2022 |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701220059/https://www.musictimes.com/articles/85658/20220701/metallicas-masters-puppets-streaming-surge-possible-stranger-things-feature.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Kelly McClure of ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' compares the song's newfound popularity to [[Kate Bush]]'s "[[Running Up That Hill]]", another song featured in the show's fourth season.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McClure |first1=Kelly |title=The "Stranger Things" season 4 finale gives Metallica's "Master of Puppets" the Kate Bush push |url=https://www.salon.com/2022/07/02/the-stranger-things-season-4-finale-gives-metallicas-master-of-puppets-the-kate-bush-push/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=Salon |date=July 2, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715145120/https://www.salon.com/2022/07/02/the-stranger-things-season-4-finale-gives-metallicas-master-of-puppets-the-kate-bush-push/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The song's appearance on ''Stranger Things'' saw the song resurging on [[Spotify]]'s charts, behind "Running Up That Hill", and the band stated on social media that "It’s an incredible honor to be such a big part of Eddie’s journey and to once again be keeping company with all of the amazing artists featured in the show."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-07-05/metallica-stranger-things-master-of-puppets | title = 'Master of Puppets' got some 'Stranger Things' love. Now Metallica returns the favor | first = Alexandra | last = Del Rosario | date = July 5, 2022 | accessdate = July 5, 2022 | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | archive-date = April 15, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230415164433/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2022-07-05/metallica-stranger-things-master-of-puppets | url-status = live }}</ref>