Metallica Orion album Master of Puppets 1986 ( Met On Tour Turin, Italy 10 February 2018)

Orion is the 7th track off of Metallica s 3rd studio album, Master of It is an instrumental and was named after the star constellation, Orion, due to the song s spacey sounding bridge. It was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and most notably, Cliff Burton. The song is more progressive than the band s previous work. This song was played at the memorial for Cliff Burton, most notably because of the bass solo. It was also played live in 2006 when Metallica played the entire Master of Puppets album. In honor of Cliff, the band named it s festival Orion music and more.