Favorite song on Master of Puppets?

I'm choosing Welcome Home. Such a great, tragic story behind the lyrics, and the main riff and chorus translate all of that perfectly. Currently my #7 song overall.

Disposable Heroes.

Battery!

Need to listen to the whole thing again to make a better decision, but I love the title track. Favorite Metallica song i’ve heard

MagnusPrime wrote:Disposable Heroes.

That's a great one too, my third favorite on the album.

seth wrote: Need to listen to the whole thing again to make a better decision, but I love the title track. Favorite Metallica song i’ve heard

That would be my second pick.

Battery, followed by MoP and Welcome Home.

The thing that should not be of course! Like lightening, no wrong answer here. Metlallica scratches out another Masterpiece.

The only song I think is average is The Thing That Should Not Be. It's ok but sometimes I skip it.
Welcome Home and Orion are very good but not excellent. Battery, Master of Puppets, Disposable Heroes, Leper Messiah and Damage Inc are all excellent songs.

EDIT: My pick was Battery. At some point it was Disposable Heroes.

Once upon a time: Sanitarium.  Probably just plain ol' MOP now.  Usually there's a lot of love for Orion from contrarians.

Orion is great! The weakest on the album to me is Leper Messiah. To really understand The thing that should not be in it's fullness you need a good grasp of Hp Lovecraft. Ktulu and Thing are perfect musical complements to the insanity and despair that is Lovecraft's work and cosmic terrors.

Gotta go title track. But several others could take the spot, as well. The album is a masterpiece.

Dustofyears wrote:To really understand The thing that should not be in it's fullness you need a good grasp of Hp Lovecraft. Ktulu and Thing are perfect musical complements to the insanity and despair that is Lovecraft's work and cosmic terrors.

I'm not much into listening to the lyrics in songs in general, as I mostly view the vocals as another instrument and many times if I try to really listen to the lyrics it just takes me away from the music. I do appreciate good lyrics though whenever I'm in the mood to look into them.

But in this case the Lovecraft connection only makes it worse as I really dislike Lovecraft, especially anything that involves Chthulhu. Most of the time if a movie or a video game is called "lovecraftian" I lose all my interest. One thing I can't stand is that there is supposed to be this unimaginable terror that can't be described, but then it is described and it's always some darn squid tentacle thing which is the furthest from "an unspeakable horror" I can imagine.

I can appreciate Lovecraft for doing his thing and I like that people like his work, but it's not for me at all.

Sanitarium. Love the build up and it's sort of melancholic crushingly heavy sound. Thing that should not be is great but I enjoy Lovecraft.

I think that main riff to Battery was a game changer for thrash metal.

Battery never fails to get me pumped up.

Orion!

It’s my all time favorite instrumental song. 

Other choices…

Title Track
Disposable Heroes 
Damage Inc

The whole album is great! 

Leper Messiah is my least favorite… but it still has that cool riff before the solo!

Black Rider wrote:Sanitarium. Love the build up and it's sort of melancholic crushingly heavy sound. Thing that should not be is great but I enjoy Lovecraft.

Yeah, it's one of those riffs that feels heavier than it really is because of all the raw emotion in it.

TZ75 wrote:The whole album is great! 

Leper Messiah is my least favorite… but it still has that cool riff before the solo!

I assumed it would be one of my least favorites (as the title makes it sound like it would have... questionable lyrics), but it's actually one of the most biblical songs they've made.

Tbh, I don't get why everyone is choosing Battery. It's a great song, but it's my least favorite on the album. Fastest doesn't mean best...

I wouldn’t say it’s the fastest. That’s probably either Disposable Heroes or Damage, Inc.

Damage Inc stinks, as does that first solo in Sanitarium.  Took me years to realize that though.

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StevenCressler wrote:Tbh, I don't get why everyone is choosing Battery. It's a great song, but it's my least favorite on the album. Fastest doesn't mean best...

I kind of agree with ToB that the riff on Battery was pretty much a game changer for thrash metal. It brought a certain type of harmonic melody into basic aggressive fast thrash picking, which I think eventually lead into melodic death metal and metalcore. A huge influence no matter what we might think about those subgenres.

Of course just being influential doesn't necessarily equal being good, but to me it's one of the best riffs ever and even the simple "two note" riff at the end (3:48) is perfect, it plays just at the right moments and brings the sense of aggression forward really well. Living Sacrifice sort of copied that to Violence from their debut album (1:49).

Plus I love Lars' drums in that song. The way he uses cymbals accents and odd drum fills here and there gives this weird sense of controlled chaos and sounds really aggressive. It's one of the better examples of an excellent teamwork with the rhythm guitarist and the drummer.