Master of Puppets (song) - Covers and Usage

Covers and Usage

"Master of Puppets" has been covered by multiple artists.

• Violinist David Garrett covered it on his album Rock Symphonies featuring The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Ugly Kid Joe covered the song for Metallic Attack: Metallica - The Ultimate Tribute
• Green Day covered a part of the song live as part of a jam.
• Therapy? played the song's opening in concert, usually leading into their own song "Potato Junkie".
• Trivium recorded a cover that was released on Remastered: Master of Puppets Revisited, distributed free through Kerrang! magazine, and on the re-release of Ascendancy. They also regularly perform some of this song live.
• Primus has been known to play the opening of the song as a "tease" where Les Claypool, bass player and lead vocalist, plays the guitar part on his bass. The most notable performance of this "tease" was at Woodstock 94.
• Canadian punk band Sum 41 covered it at a live medley at MTV Icon Metallica in 2003. They also played the full song in 2009 at the Hoodwink Festival.
• Progressive metal band Dream Theater covered it live (along with the rest of the album) as a tribute.
• Finnish band Apocalyptica released a cover of the song played only by cellos.
• German punk band Die Ärzte samples it in the middle of their song "FaFaFa" from the album Die Bestie in Menschengestalt.
• Anthrax sampled a short segment of "Master of Puppets" in their song "I'm the Man".
• Tribute duo Harptallica recorded a harp version on their album Harptallica: A Tribute.
• As a tribute to Metallica, Underground New York rapper Necro recites the pre-chorus in his song "Underground" off his album I Need Drugs.
• Limp Bizkit covered it live, with guitarist Wes Borland singing, rather than vocalist Fred Durst.
• Burden of Grief covers this song on the compilation A Tribute to the Four Horsemen.
• Sevendust covered parts of the song live.
• French band Justice remixed this song and often play it at their concerts.
• Pendulum performed a cover of this song during their United Kingdom and worldwide tours in 2008 and 2009. Their version is featured on the concert album Live at Brixton Academy.
• The Bang Camaro song "Swallow the Razor" uses the lyric "I chop my breakfast on a mirror".
• The power metal band Sonata Arctica performed a live cover.
• Van Canto covered the whole song on their third studio album Tribe of Force.
• On a sketch from Late Night with Conan O'Brien featuring Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog, Triumph recruits some second-rate Grammy winners to trash John Mayer's hotel room while "Master of Puppets" plays.
• The Spanish band Baderna covered the song live.
• Rodrigo of the Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela often covers this song live.

The song has also been used in various media as a theme song:

• The song was featured in the movie Old School.
• Conservative talk show host Michael Savage uses the track as the opening of his radio show, The Savage Nation.
• The song is Philadelphia Phillies' third baseman Pedro Feliz's theme song.
• It was also featured in the Simpsons episode The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer when Hans Moleman drives away as Metallica is playing on the back of his truck.
• Welsh performers Dirty Sanchez used the opening riff during their live performances throughout United Kingdom festivals in 2006.
• It was also used as the trailer song and appears in Guitar Hero: Metallica.
• It was planned for Pump It Up: The Prex 3, but that use was canceled due to licensing issues.
• It is used in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.
• Different sections—notably the opening riff and the ending "wail" of Kirk Hammett's solo—of the song are played during a commercial for the 2010 running of the Daytona 500, and commercials promoting the Nationwide Series and NASCAR on ESPN.
• An episode of King of the Hill was named after the song.