The Story Behind The Song: Metallica's Enter Sandman.Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best.“I watched with my jaw dragged flat to the floor. “They were just passing out copies all day,” Hooker later recalled. He stood watching as a seemingly endless parade of metal fans streamed into the tiny basement record shop to exchange crumpled notes for an eight song collection his record label was advertising in the music press as “over 50 minutes of metal perfection.” Music For Nations label manager Martin Hooker called into Shades around lunchtime on March 3. That weekend, staff at Shades had spent a couple of hours placing copies of the album in plastic bags, complete with pre-printed till receipts, just to be prepared for the anticipated Monday morning rush. The previous week, Shades had taken delivery of 1,000 copies of Metallica’s third album, Master Of Puppets, from the band’s UK record label Music For Nations, and the label had bullishly predicted that the shop might want to increase its order to satisfy their expected demand for the record.
