The 30th anniversary of Metallica’s Master of Puppets came and went last year without much fanfare from the band. Now, the heavy metal giants are finally ready to celebrate their landmark third album with the deluxe boxset it deserves.
Master of Puppets was originally released on March 3rd, 1986, on Elektra Records and went on to become the first Metallica album to be certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album has been certified 6x Platinum in the United States and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. In 2016, the album became the first metal album to be added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, an honor granted to works deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.The Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set will include a 108-page hardcover book including never before seen photos, outtakes and previously unreleased interviews, three LPs, ten CDs, a cassette, two DVDs, a lithograph, a folder with handwritten lyrics, and a set of six buttons…
"Fight Quest" is a great series that showcase various martial arts of the world. I have not even heard of some of them before watching this series! In the series, hosts Jimmy Smith and Doug Anderson travel from country to country studying a different martial art in each location. Jimmy Smith is an LA-based mixed martial arts fighter while Doug Anderson is a 25-year-old Iraqi War veteran. "They travel the world in their quest of a good fight."
The whiskey-drinkin’, beer guzzlin' bros in Hammer Fight were spawned from Atlantic City, New Jersey! Showcasing a brazen approach to their sound, and therefore it hardly matters if you call it thrash`n`roll or hard rockin‘ heavy metal: positively filthy rock meets gloriously sublime classic metal, thrash, speed, punk and hardcore on debut album Profound and profane! Snotty like the Cancer Bats and Zeke, and a second later worshipping at Lemmy`s altar – Hammer Fight don`t just defy all boundaries, they set them on fire and piss on the ashes…