Damage, Inc.
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- For the computer game with a similar title, see Damage Incorporated.
"Damage, Inc." is the eighth and final song from Metallica's 1986 album Master of Puppets.
Like the song "Orion" preceding it, "Damage, Inc." starts off with a whirling, hypnotic bass intro by Cliff Burton, that includes more of his signature volume swells and harmonies. The intro is constructed of between eight and twelve layers of bass - some clean and some with Cliff Burton's signature wah wah. The multiple layers produce an echo effect. Following the volume increases the song proceeds in usual thrash style. This is one of the fastest songs on the album.
The lyrical matter deals with the conformity and trends in music, or possibly that of an armed military acting as a blindly cohesive unit, unable and unwilling to acknowledge any destruction they cause, not unlike the subject matter of No Remorse. Interestingly, the lines "Fuck it all and fucking no regrets; Never happy endings on these dark sets," are nearly re-used in exact form on the song "St. Anger".
The original demo of "Disposable Heroes" features a second guitar solo that was eventually used as the main solo for this song[1].
Covers
- This song was covered by the band Funeral for a Friend for Kerrang!'s Master of Puppets: Remastered.
- Razed in Black did a cover of "Damage, Inc." on the album Sacrificed from 1999.
- Dream Theater covered the song live along with Napalm Death lead singer Mark "Barney" Greenway. The band covered the song again (with James LaBrie on vocals) along with the rest of the album in 2004.
- German thrash metal band Tankard does a cover of this song on their album Kings of Beer.
- Hardcore band Shai Hulud recorded a cover of "Damage, Inc". It appears on the re-release of the album "A Profound Hatred of Man".
The famous 'Spice Girls' aldo made a cover of this song, as a biuld up to their comeback tour in mid-2007