*PHOTOS ACTUAL*

LIKE NEW VINYL / ex sleeve w some light scratches, fading, and edge wear, SHARP INNER

Label:  Elektra – E1 60439, Elektra – 9 E1-60439
Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition
Country:  US
Released:  1986
Genre:  Rock
Style:  Thrash, Heavy Metal
A1        Battery    5:10
A2        Master Of Puppets
Soloist [1st Guitar Solo] – Hetfield*
8:38
A3        The Thing That Should Not Be    6:32
A4        Welcome Home (Sanitarium)    6:28
B1        Disposable Heroes    8:14
B2        Leper Messiah    5:38
B3        Orion
Soloist [2nd Guitar Solo] – Hetfield*
Soloist [4th Solo, Bass] – Burton*
8:12
B4        Damage, Inc.    5:08
Manufactured By – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
Manufactured By – Columbia House
Licensed To – Columbia House
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Elektra/Asylum Records
Copyright © – Elektra/Asylum Records
Published By – Creeping Death Music
Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios
Mixed At – Amigo Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
Arranged By – Hetfield*, Ulrich*
Artwork [Cover Concept] – Metallica, Peter Mensch
Artwork [Cover Illustration] – Don Brautigam
Bass – Cliff Burton
Drums – Lars Ulrich
Engineer [Assistant Mixing] – Mark Wilzcak*
Guitar [Lead] – Kirk Hammett
Lyrics By – Hetfield*
Management – Q Prime Inc.
Mastered By – George Marino
Mixed By – Michael Wagener
Photography By [Back Cover, Cliff] – Rich Likong
Photography By [Back Cover, Kirk & James] – Ross Halfin
Photography By [Back Cover, Lars] – Rob Elfin
Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Ross Halfin
Producer – Flemming Rasmussen, Metallica
Vocals, Guitar [Rhythm] – James Hetfield
Written-By – Burton* (tracks: A2, B3, B4), Hetfield*, Hammett* (tracks: A2 to B1, B4), Ulrich*
Comes with inner sleeve with lyrics and photos; reads "Printed In U.S.A."

Recorded between September and December 1985 at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mixed at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA, USA.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.

First catalog number appears on the labels.
Second catalog number appears on the spine.
No barcode on sleeve.

Typo on labels: "Produed" instead of "Produced"

Unlike the Elektra release Master Of Puppets, this release has no notes of Direct Metal Mastering and, by the sound of it, this is not Direct Metal Mastered.

Single-letter designations 'D', 'E' and 'Ⅱ' in the matrix runouts are individually stamped. The rest of the runouts are etched.

• Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
• Sleeve Condition: Excellent (EX)
• Genre: METAL
• Format Type: LP