Is Master Of Puppets the greatest thrash album???

 

I agree as far as MoP isn't a thrash album in the same way that KEA is, or Testament, Kreator, Dark Angel, Slayer etc are.

 

MoP, like RTL, has thrash on it, but it's a completely new way of expressing heavy metal compared to anything that went before it except RTL.

 

It blends thrash with other metal styles - it's the ultimate metal hybrid and remains a benchmark; it's technical, but not as overtly (and hence slightly repellently) technical as Megadeth or Watchtower, it's melodic and catchy, but not cheesey like "Pop" metal bands such as Bon Jovi or Def Leppard, and it's dark and intense but not as extreme or hard core as Slayer, Death, Voi Vod, Celtic Frost or Napalm Death.

 

It's the figurehead for metal in the 1980s - the benchmark of what a metal album can be, and remains a classic nearly 23 years down the line.

 

It's one of the greatest Metal albums ever released (whatever prefix you want to give it)., and compares well to Black Sabbath, In Rock, Stained Class, Heaven and Hell, Ace of Spades, Frost and Fire, Number of the Beast and In the Court of the Crimson King as a genre-changing album - if not more so than most.