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Double album on gold vinyls with gatefold cover and cd. Limited 3000 copies

Dream Theater, arguably the worlds premiere progressive metal band, started a tradition a few years ago of covering classic albums during certain tour stops. The band would play a set of their own material, take a break, and then cover one of their favourite albums in its entirety. So far the band has covered Iron Maidens The Number Of The Beast, Pink Floyd’ Dark Side Of The Moon, and Metallicas Master Of Puppets. Master Of Puppets is an extremely important metal album, and while it isn’t always evident amidst all of Dream Theaters sprawling progressive rock songs, it was definitely a major influence to the band when they were starting out (and later on, if Train of Thought is any indicator). I think Dream Theater does the album justice with this performance. The whole thing is a bit of a stretch for vocalist James LaBrie. His vocal style has little in common with James Hetfield’s, so this isn’t one of his better performances. Poor Jordan Rudess must have felt like the odd man out, as Master of Puppets is a keyboard-free album. Still, he managed to put his stamp on some of the songs, which made for some interesting interpretations of these classic songs. Dream Theater’s version of Master of Puppets is a must-have for die hard Dream Theater fans, and should prove interesting to most Metallica fans as well. This was recorded live at the Razzmatazz club in Barcelona Spain on the 9th of February 2002

Track list:
1. Battery
2. Master Of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanatorium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion
8. Damage Inc.