“Send it on its way to two billion…” Metallica’s 1986 masterpiece has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.
Metallica have announced that Master Of Puppets is the latest entry in Spotify’s coveted Billions Club.
The song is the band’s third to reach the massive achievement – behind Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters – and it joins other recent additions by the likes of Alicia Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. “We’re psyched to share that Master Of Puppets has just made its way into @spotify’s Billions Club – Thank you!” they say. “Send it on its way to two billion, and listen to every member of the Billions Club at metallica.lnk.to/MoP-Billions.”
Landing at number two in our countdown of the 20 greatest ’Tallica tracks, K! said of …Puppets: “The standout track on what’s arguably the best heavy metal album ever written, the greatness of Master Of Puppets hardly needs re-explaining at this stage. Opening with a riff that drops like a slaughterhouse sledgehammer and barely letting up over the next eight-and-a-half minutes’ stunning four-movement structure, it’s a composition that would do many classicists proud, twisting and turning from moments of serrated savagery to others of sheer ecstasy. Seriously, how many other songs manage to get heads banging this hard before dropping a sing-along guitar solo?
“Charting the seductive, controlling nature of addictive substances across some of the band’s most evocative lyrics (‘Pain monopoly, ritual misery – chop your breakfast on a mirror!’) it also foreshadowed real-life pitfalls in the band’s future. To top it off, this was reportedly Cliff’s favourite Metallica song – and there’s no higher praise than that.”
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