I have many records in my collection, but Master Of Puppets has been the biggest influence on my life. In many ways, I play music because of Metallica. My brother is five years older than me and when I was nine he got the first album, Kill ‘Em All, and I quickly became a fan. We’d waited so long for the release of Master Of Puppets.
The day it came out, we went to a record shop in Mexico City called Zorba and bought it. We took it straight home and put it on. I was just blown away. Retrospectively, it’s a continuation of Ride The Lightning, but I felt it was so new, sonically it was fucking amazing and to me it’s still the best-sounding album Metallica have made. Most of the things my brother and I listened to were metal, but up until then we were listening mainly to glam metal, Mötley CrÜe and all those bands, but Master Of Puppets turned me off that instantly and onto thrash metal. I got rid of all my glam-rock records straight away.