Thrash's high-water mark: Master of Puppets weaponizes precision — the title track's gallop, "Orion"'s bass cathedral, Burton's final testament — into metal that earned orchestral comparisons without asking for them. "Battery" still opens shows four decades later. The genre has gotten faster and heavier since; it has never gotten better.
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