MASTER

"on the seventh day God created master"

Year:  1991

Label:  Nuclear Blast

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  10

Time:  40 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Death Metal

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"faith is in season"
Year:  1998
Label:  Pavement
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  16
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"the spirit of the west"
Year:  2004
Label:  System Shock
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"the human machine"
Year:  2010
Label:  Pulverized
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  40 min.

Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal

Chicago based death metal band Master has been the primary musical vehicle for journeyman vocalist and bassist Paul Speckmann since the start of the 1990s, but his first known sighting dates back to 1982, as a short-term member of local power metal hopefuls, War Cry, who appeared on Metal Blade's Metal Massacre IV compilation. Speckmann and his rhythm partner, drummer Bill Schmidt, soon fell out with their band mates over creative differences (the duo wanted to play more extreme heavy metal, the others wanted to wimp out), but their new band took some time taking shape while they auditioned as many as 25 guitarists, without finding their man. In the meantime, Speckmann became involved in another side project called Death Strike and Schmidt with a band called Mayhem (no relation to the Norwegian black metal clan), and so it wasn't until 1985 that their collaboration was revived with the recruitment of guitarist Chris Mittelbrun -- thus was born Master. Taking money he had recently inherited from his father, Speckmann paid for some studio time to record an album-length demo, and this quickly spread Master's name through the metal underground.

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"the new elite"
Year:  2012
Label:  Doomentia
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal

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"the witchhunt"
Year:  2013
Label:  FDO
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  42 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"an epiphany of hate"

Year:  2016

Label:  MB
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  44 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal

One of the genre’s founding figures, Czech Republic-based death/thrashers Master has literally been at the forefront of the style from the very beginning being one of the first bands to ever adopt to the style back in the genre’s infancy. Now, nearly thirty years on from their start and reaching album number twelve, the titans offer forth this crushing release January 29, 2016 on F.D.A. Rekotz.

Much like the majority of their work in the past, this here is a rather blistering and mostly primitive brand of death-infused thrash metal that charges along at a pretty generous pace here. The main basis for the swarming, mid-tempo attack here is given the main charge throughout here which keeps the tracks steady, simplistic and really straightforward as the rhythms buzz along through the tight patterns featured here as the bands’ thrashing energies are what really tend to drive this one forward rather than the riff-work. Since the tracks are generally given a much more explosive pacing that brings out the album’s rather simplistic nature quite well here as the album seems to pick one simplistic pace and then just holds it for the majority of the time here which makes the tracks bounce along when they’re given an up-tempo rhythm to play with yet when it comes to the more sluggish and plodding tempos it doesn’t really generate the same sense of energy with it never really deviating much in it’s patterns and arrangements. There’s some great work to be had when it really lets itself go since those tend to dominate the album, yet the rare occasions where it does drop these slightly is what causes this one to lose it’s steam as the disjointed pacing and tempos is slightly jarring overall here. Thankfully, it’s rare enough to not be that detrimental against the enjoyable remainder of the album as their craftsmanship and consistency allows them to do this better than most other acts in the genre by featuring enough to make it noticeably yet going for the jugular enough times to really make that impact.

As this is clearly a competent and highly professional act that knows what they’re doing, this is nicely displayed here with an album that has a lot to like about it and only a few real downer spots that leaves this a wholehearted recommendation not only for fans of the band as well as those who enjoy this ravenous style of old-school death / thrash metal (*Review by Slayr6 ).

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"vindictive miscreant"
Year:  2018
Label:  TO
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:   8
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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