DREAM THEATER — Master Of Puppets (reissued 2021)

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2.46 | 22 ratings | 3 reviews

Promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs) · 2004

Filed under Thrash Metal
By DREAM THEATER

Tracklist

1. Battery (5:15)
2. Master of Puppets (8:45)
3. The Thing That Should Not Be (7:04)
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (6:43)
5. Disposable Heroes (8:11)
6. Leper Messiah (5:58)
7. Orion (9:20)
8. Damage, Inc. (6:32)

Total Time: 57:53

Line-up/Musicians

- James LaBrie / vocals
- John Myung / bass & Chapman stick
- John Petrucci / guitar & vocals
- Mike Portnoy / drums & vocals
- Jordan Rudess / keyboards

About this release

CD Ytsejam Records (YTSEJAM006), 2004.
Recorded live in Barcelona, Spain on February 19th 2002

Remastered and reissued by Inside Out/Sony Music on September 17 2021 as "Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Master of Puppets - Live in Barcelona, 2002" - The fourth release in the Lost Not Forgotten Archives, a reboot of Dream Theater's Official Bootleg series. Available on CD, LP and digitally.

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martindavey87

For most this probably won't be worth the money. If you want to check out Dream Theater, you'd buy ‘Images and Words’ or ‘Scenes from a Memory’. However, if you ever wondered what Master of Puppets might sound like with keyboards (and who hasn't?) then this is the album for you.

Of course, that won't stop people from buying it and whining about what it is, but the thing is, this isn't an album to be taken seriously. Are Dream Theater superior musicians from a technical standpoint? Absolutely! Is James Hetfield a better singer than James LaBrie? It's debatable. Does Hetfield's vocals suit this album better than LaBrie's? Most likely.

Who cares? It's Dream Theater having some fun and covering a Metallica album live. Take it for what it is, although, avoid it completely unless you're an absolute die-hard fan of Dream Theater who needs everything in their collection. And who isn't?

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Conor Fynes

'Master Of Puppets' - Dream Theater (N/A)

Gah... what I can say about this. This is certainly not gold; far from. This is in fact; the worst thing the band has ever released in their catalog; especially due to the fact that it had the potential to be so much more.

While I'm not a big fan of Metallica, I can safely say that other people's opinions aside; I consider 'Master of Puppets' to be a genuine masterpiece of metal. Keeping this in mind, Dream Theater are one of my all-time favourite bands. Wouldn't it be safe to think that this would be a very cool thing to listen to?

It's genuinely terrible. First off, the sound quality for this live performance is far below par; especially for a band known for releasing good live albums. It sounds like someone had their cellphone microphone on and was recording the band in the front row.

The main awful thing is however; (I hate to say) but James LaBrie's voice. While some people seem to have an all-encompassing issue with the man's vocal tone; I personally love James LaBries style, and regard him as one of the greatest vocalists to ever be recorded. This performance makes me rethink that though. His performance is ear cringing.

This is an automatic one star. I can't even say two stars; due to the fact that I consider myself quite a fan of this talented band, and even I find myself apalled by this. Fail.

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Dellinger

I don't give this album a low rating because I think DT does a poor job covering this album. I give it a low rating because I just don't like this album. The main reason why I would think this album would be worst than the original is the vocals, which certainly don't fit the music, at least not the way they are sung. The playing doesn't sound particularly bad to me, just different given thay they are different musicians and they don't have a rhythm guitar and they add keyboards, which are kind of nice to have, but aren't very notable. The production doesn't bother me too much either, to me the original sound just as bad.

Most of the songs on this album I don't like, they are too dull and don't have much melody. My favourite part on this album is definitley the middle section of the title track, but the rest of the song isn't quiet so good. The only two songs which I actually like from this album are Welcome Home, which has a soft beginning and gets heavier as it unfolds, and actually has a nice melody, and Orion which is a good instrumental (and has the plus on this version that LaBrie doesn't ruin it by singing). However, even though I like this two songs, there are Metallica songs I like far better (and which I would rather have heard covered over this by DT), like Fade to Black and Call of Ktulu from their previous album. So, 2 stars mainly because of this two songs (and the title song), otherwise I might have gone only with 1 star.