Finding hidden treasure requires knowledge, patience, a certain sense of OCD, and a next-level love of artifacts. Meet Dan Nykolayko.
                    

                        When Master of Puppets came out, James Hetfield was a care-free, rampaging rager of a young man. Pedal to the metal? Oh I’d say so. I knew him back then from our interactions when I was a Sounds reporter. I attended some of the mixing sessions for the MOP album. But like every other metal-fanatic at the time, as I soaked up and thrashed out to the likes of “Disposable Heroes” and “…(Sanitarium),” I took them at face value. Most of the words on MOP are angry. They’re delivered with ferocity and a clear intent to hit hard and to hit true.
                    

                        Meeting first responders (those firemen and women who were first on the scene to fight the fires and offer relief effort) as the boys did pre-show would certainly have reinforced the already deeply-felt determination to hurl every last ounce of performance and delivery into the audience.
                    

                        With only one week remaining until the release of Master of Puppets (Remastered), take a look behind the scenes as told by the people who made it all come together.
                    

                        The Greater Birmingham area... Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Diamond Head, a fair deal of Led Zeppelin... this is a heavy metal heritage site! So yes, there was an extra twinge of excitement at Metallica taking the Genting Arena (more of a large, imposing and raw barn like structure) and making it theirs for the first time in nine long years.