Pop culture web site IGN Music names Metallica's classic 1986 Master of Puppets album as the most influential heavy metal album of all time. he editors explained their choice by saying that the band's third effort "built upon and perfected everything they had experimented with prior. It's the album where all the pieces come together in glorious cohesion and it's the album that finally woke the general public up to the power and the glory that Metallica was born to spread."