Dream Theater Official Bootleg playing all Master of Puppets album (Metallica). Battery (0:00) 2. Master Of Puppets (5:14) 3. The Thing That Should Not Be. Dream Theater Master Of Puppets 320Ak Just select torrent and Download it to your Device! This cover is damn near perfect. But I still had to give it a score under 50% because of one thing: The vocals. James Hetfield would kill himself just so he could spin in his grave. The singer, James LaBrie, is obviously trying really hard to be something that he's not. And I don't know why he would even make that attempt, seeing as how it'd have been in this album's best interest for him to sing in a lower register, rather than one so high it's out of his range. He sounds like a southern grandma with a long, nasal drawl as he screams the word 'Battery' at the top of his lungs. He sounds like a crying baby when he belts out the words, 'master of puppets, I'm pulling your streeeeeeeeeighnnnnsssss [sic]!' It's just not listenable. James LaBrie is why Orion (the instrumental) is the best song on this cover album, by far. And it's really sad that this is the case. It's not like this cover is otherwise unsalvageable, and in no way are the vocals just another dog turd on the front lawn. The cover is really, really good. For those who think that Mike Portnoy (a god) would be out of his element playing the drum parts of Lars Ulrich (not really a god), think again: He restrains himself reasonably well while still tastefully using some of that foot speed in places where Lars originally couldn't. Same goes for John Petrucci on the guitar. He ups the ante, adding on to a already impressive effort by Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield. John Myung plays almost exactly as he did on the album, but he's a bassist, so that's essentially what he's supposed to do. I'm not quite sure what it is that Jordan Ruddes did, but I guess it worked. My one gripe as far as instrumentation goes is that the guitars and keyboards occupied the exact same part of the mix, meaning that they were fighting for auditory space while still managing to be indistinguishable from one another. Good cover of a good album. Terrible vocals, though. Dream Theater is a veritable musical chameleon, able to take on countless styles, themes and atmospheres. Lining up their catalogue feels completely natural, rather than forced and stilted - it's in this way that they are truly a 'progressive' band that never binds itself to any single style and keeps challenging itself, setting aside the often-exaggerated accusations of pointless wankery leveled at some of their music. It's in this spirit that we have Dream Theater's full live cover of Master Of Puppets by thrash metal's most well-known [Gods or clods, depending on who you talk to].
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