Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Tracklist:
A1 Battery
A2 Master Of Puppets
A3 The Thing That Should Not Be
A4 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
B1 Disposable Heroes
B2 Leper Messiah
B3 Orion
B4 Damage, Inc.


Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Roadrunner Records • Europe • 1986 • Vinyl, LP, Album • Cat#: RR 9717


Specific features:
- Roadrunner logo on backsleeve.
- two pressing rings visible on labels: one around the spindle hole, approx. 32mm in diameter, and the other outer, sloped, pressing ring, approx. 18mm wide, measured from label's edge inwards
- catalogue number RR 9717 printed on the labels, spine, back cover and the lyrics side of the inner sleeve
- runout inscriptions are hand-etched, except for one or the other separately stamped character (symbol/letter/number) on some of the variants, e.g. variant 6, side A/B: "5" and "⋀"/"⋀". In some cases the stamped symbol "⋀" is stamped twice very close together so it appears looking almost like having a 3-D effect, or blurry
- comes with the printed inner sleeve containing lyrics, credits, photos, and other information
- some copies came with a Tour 1986/merch sheet: on one side European Tour 1986 dates and places, on the other side merchandise with order form

Similar European 1986 pressings with different catalogue number printed on the back cover - "MFN60":
[url=https://www.discogs.com/release/7790289]Release 7790289[/url]: differences in runout inscriptions pattern, i.e. all variants have "MFN" inscription
[url=https://www.discogs.com/release/14662412]Release 14662412[/url]: also differences in runout inscriptions pattern, both in comparison to the above version, as well as this particular pressing. As of 30.4.2025 there is also inconsistency in relation to matrix no's variants: variant 1 differs considerably from variant 2

Not to be confused with the counterfeit pressing [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/13678767]Release 13678767[/url]

All songs published by Creeping Death Music, ASCAP
Marketed by Roadrunner Records

Issued under licence from Music For Nations/Megaforce Records.

Distributed in the Netherlands by CBS, Heemstede
in Belgium by Indisc, Brussels
in Germany by S.P.V., Hanover
in Austria by EMP, Graz
in Switzerland by Disctrade, Zurich

℗1986 Roadrunner Prod. B.V.

All lyrics © 1985 Creeping Death.

Recorded, Sept.-Dec. 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed [...] at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA
Mastered [...] at Sterli
Mixed [...] at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA
Mastered [...] at Sterling Sound


Barcodes & Other Identifiers:
Rights Society (Publishing): ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): RR 9717 A1 Timtom
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): RR 9717 B1