Many bands have attmepted to cover the almighty Metallica song, "Master of Puppets", but which does it the best? I have only juswt recently heard Burden of Grief's cover of it, and it was pretty damn solid , but I'm interested to see how it compares to the other cover versions of it...

Well, I have not heard the Burden of Grief one yet, so I am not sure if I should vote. But out of all the ones I have heard, I liked Dream Theaters the most. I think it was the aspect of having Jordan play the guitar parts on the keys that really got me.

i think though james labrie's voice doesnt suit MOP at all IMO - it needs to be sung harshly, which labrie isnt known for, so thats why i think ( IMO ) that dream theater's version was lacking in brutatlity as such...

I vote Burder of grief because i dont like other bands so much

The two best versions for me are Dream Theater's and Apocalyptica's, simply because the bands incorporate some of their own style into the songs which makes them interesting to listen to. While I do agree that Labrie's vocals weren't that great on MoP, I think they gave some variety to the song. I mean Trivium's cover sounds way to much like the original. There's nothing different or inspiring about it, so I'd rather just listen to the original version than a mediocre version of it.

My vote goes to the Dream Theater version though. That's still my favourite out of them all. The Burden Of Grief cover isn't too bad either, but it's nothing special in my opinion.

The best Master Of Puppets cover I heard on a gig of local band few trillion years ago, I was smth like 10 years old and those retards that couldn't even play first riff right were my idols, still, I love it how it sounded...

Apocalyptica! But I always go with them for any Metallica cover that they have done maybe simply because I play the cello

Interesting...I haven't heard a lot of those covers...I've heard the Dream Theater, Apocalyptica and Primus covers and out of those I'd have to pick the Apocalyptica version simply because it would be the most unique version out of the three...

i love how there (so far) has been no votes fro Trivium...

i wonder why...

I voted for Dream Theater.
But I agree with BurbotsRevenge to the point, that James LaBrie's
style as a vocalist does not fit at all.

I don't know most of the covers of this song (only apocalyptica's) and I usually don't listen to that many covers. But it sounds great on cellos.

i voted for DT but i also like primus cover to

Dream Theater just because of the perfection of the musical instruments. I agree that Labrie's voice doesn't fit. But it was a good cover over all. But Les Claypool's version is funny with Primus.

I vote for Apocalyptica, because they put their own musical sign in the sound of the album performance.

i was just searchin the name of "Trivium" cause they did it really original and i think. and about dream theater i have to say that they have vocal problem. and they john petrucci didnt play that song well at live versions.

My vote is for Apocalyptica, It is the bes MoP cover because it doesn't have any vocals on it and sounds great in every way. By the way, I do not like too much James LaBrie's vocals on that MOP album, or in Number Of The Beast (OMG when he sings "Run To The Hills" he makes me wanna punch his balls). Burden Of Grief's cover is great but nothing amazing, Trivium's cover is just a mere copy of Hetfields vocals, and so on. So Apocalyptica owns this one.

Gotta vote for Dream Theater. I think it's a great cover.. they've done a pretty good job.

I personally think that trivium did the best job with the cover everything was dead on.
btw i never knew dream theatre made a cover of this song?

Written by [user id=34145] on 01.12.2008 at 02:27

I personally think that trivium did the best job with the cover everything was dead on.
btw i never knew dream theatre made a cover of this song?

Dream Theater covered the entire Master of Puppets album.

Written by Dane Train on 01.12.2008 at 03:36

Written by [user id=34145] on 01.12.2008 at 02:27

I personally think that trivium did the best job with the cover everything was dead on.
btw i never knew dream theatre made a cover of this song?

Dream Theater covered the entire Master of Puppets album.

i'll take a look later on

...i voted for apocalyptica's cover because i think it's the best, actually there's several metallica songs i prefer being played by them...i liked alot dream theater's too but labrie's vocals aren't the best for metallica's songs...

I think Scream of Silence did it better than other bands

I vote for Trivium.

Scott Davis played this song on piano, bloody fantastic version if you ask me.

Can anyone post the Scream of Silence version on YouTube?

DT's version by a long shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Written by IronBlackZepp on 06.02.2009 at 00:50

DT's version by a long shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean that note perfect totally emoptionless version of Master Of Puppets?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.02.2009 at 07:21

Written by IronBlackZepp on 06.02.2009 at 00:50

DT's version by a long shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean that note perfect totally emoptionless version of Master Of Puppets?

Well, none of them touch the original, at least in my opinion. But DT's version is just the best cover of it, and it is not completely emotionless.

Written by IronBlackZepp on 06.02.2009 at 07:34

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.02.2009 at 07:21

Written by IronBlackZepp on 06.02.2009 at 00:50

DT's version by a long shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean that note perfect totally emoptionless version of Master Of Puppets?

Well, none of them touch the original, at least in my opinion. But DT's version is just the best cover of it, and it is not completely emotionless.

I actually fnid it to be the worst cover out of those mentioned cause it stays way too close to the original. It doesn't add anything. IMO a cover is good when it lets go off the original version and makes it the other band's own more or less. So for me Primus' version is by far the best.

I really liked Trivium's version despite the fact I'm not a huge fan of their work. They did MOP very very well.

My favourite cover is the Trivium version. He's got a great voice in the song!