Which Riff Cliff Burton Wrote for 'master of Puppets'?

There are 11 Metallica songs with Cliff Burton mentioned in the songwriting credits It means that Cliff had contributed to the solid structure. He wrote riffs or harmonies on which the further orchestration developed and other instrumental parts were based on. His bass arrangements didn't count because they came after the guitar riffs. Another way to get a songwriting credit in Metallica is to put those riffs together. This is why Lars Ulrich is considered a co-writer of all Metallica songs except a couple. From different interviews and books, we know which riffs belong to Cliff: Anesthesia (the whole solo), Fight fire with fire (the intro) Ride the Lightning (the intro's harmony part) Fade to black (the harmonized bridge) Creeping death (also the harmonized bridge) Orion (most of the composition), Damage inc. (the intro) To live is to die (the interlude, at least). So, only one song is missing, and you know which one from the video's title. In spite of my best efforts to find out which riff from Master of Puppets was Cliff's, there is no single interview, which could give us the answer. So, how are we going to reveal the truth? There are three ways: to ask Metallica (reason 2 was a stupid joke, so I deleted it) Or figure that out by ourselves. We cannot ask Metallica now So the only option remain is is to try conduct our own investigation Let's do it So how Cliff composed in Metallica? There wee three main ways: 1) a song was based on his idea (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Orion) 2) He added an extra riff to extend a song (for example the intros): 3) and most of his riffs were harmonized There are seven core riffs in Master of puppets intro, main riff, verse, pre-chorus, chorus interlude and the bridge before the last verse.What do you know about who composed them? The pre-chorus riff was written by Kirk Hammett, which we learn from the issue of Master of Puppets The main riff could be Kirk's too, since it reminds one from Exodus James's demo tapes tell us what he brought to the song: intro, verse, chorus and interlude, including the harmonized solo Some of you assumed that could be Cliff who wrote that. It would make sense if James never composed own harmony riffs, but he did So, the last piece of the puzzle is the bridge riff, which is closing the middle section of Master of Puppets It's so fleeting and overshadowed by other riffs, that a lot of people forget about this awesome riff But it's always been one of my favorite Metallica licks Since this is the last riff we haven't identified and it seems to be an extension of the song, an extra riff with a harmony Perhaps, the bridge belonged to Cliff Burton. What do you think about that? Do my arguments make sense? Demos songwriting - this is my favorite subject to talk about. Thanks for watching. It's Andriy Vasylenko Be in metal \m/ Blyat