On September 27, 1986, at around 7:00 a.m., Burton died in a bus crash in Dörarp, Sweden, a rural area near Ljungby, as Metallica toured in support of the "Master of Puppets" album. He has been recognized as a very influential musician both during his career and after his death, placing ninth in a 2011 "Rolling Stone" magazine online reader poll recognizing the greatest bassists of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Metallica on April 4, 2009.