Is Master of Puppets about to have ANOTHER ‘resurgence’? Metal fans rejoice: Metallica’s 1986 mega-hit features in new Call of Duty trailer
When Master of Puppets featured in Stranger Things back in 2022, it brought Metallica and metal music back into the eye of the mainstream once again.
Yep, when the band’s 1986 thrash metal mega-hit featured in the hit Netflix show’s Season 4 finale, people went wild, with many guitarists clamouring to test their downpicking mettle and learn its now-legendary riffs.
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And now that Master of Puppets – or an industrial-flavoured remix of it, at least – has featured in the latest trailer for Black Ops 7, the upcoming installment of Call of Duty, are we about to see a similar revival?
The Call of Duty franchise reportedly has over 100 million active monthly players across all its titles – with many regularly tuning into Warzone, the battle royale behemoth whose popularity was massively propelled during Covid.
So it stands to reason that a large subsection of this enormous player base will have checked out the trailer for the upcoming Black Ops 7, and not all of those will be familiar with Metallica and the thrash classic that is Master of Puppets.
In my mind, two things stand in the way of the track having a revival similar to that ignited by Stranger Things, though.
One: the track is quite significantly chopped up, edited and remixed, with a futuristic industrial sound which more closely aligns with Black Ops 7’s future-tinged aesthetic and gameplay. Thus, the frantic 200bpm-plus downpicked riffs are slightly harder to make out, and will likely cause fewer ears to perk up as a result.
And two: the track’s inclusion in Stranger Things saw protagonist Eddie Munson literally playing the song mid-episode on his electric guitar in order to scare away a flock of demonic bats. Yep, MoP will tend to do that.
The fact that this scene appeared during the season finale, when the audience had built up a strong affinity for one of the main characters who played the riffs, would have no doubt contributed to many picking up a guitar and giving it a go themselves.
Therefore, it’s unlikely Master of Puppets will have quite the same resurgence – pardon the pun, for the very select few of you that will understand that reference – as it did in 2022. But ultimately, we’re always happy to see metal represented in the mainstream. So props, Call of Duty.
At the time of writing, the new trailer has received nearly 35 million views on YouTube in just two days. Check it out below:
That said, the Call of Duty franchise is no stranger to collaborating with metal artists on its titles. Huntington Beach metal juggernaut Avenged Sevenfold – who have supported Metallica on numerous occasions – have worked with CoD developers many times, contributing tracks including Not Ready to Die and Carry On to the series’ soundtracks.
Watch the video for Carry On below, in which members M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ are transformed into in-game characters.
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