Death/Thrash Metal classic remastered! A strong Master album re-issued.
One of the first bands in Death Metal is back. It is still a shame how
little people know of this legendary band, because they are really a
pioneering band of the genre (together with Possessed and Death). Master
will go down in death metal annals, along with Monstrosity and Deceased
as perhaps the band that was most undeservedly under-appreciated by the
hordes subscribing to said form of music. Every offering of Master is
great, but this one really takes us back to the first time we heard “On
the Seventh Day, God Created... Master”.
The extremely heavy riffs are what I noticed right away. Alex
Nejezchleba is as good as Paul Masvidal, and he surely can write same
damn heavy riffs. The solo on “The Final Skull” is just spectacular.
Paul Speckmann’s vocals are amazing as usual. Speckmann’s influence on
the death metal of the late 80’s was quite possibly as profound as any
allegiance that has been sworn to Possessed, Slayer and early Death.
Abomination, Death Strike, Funeral Bitch and consequently, Master have
played no small part in forging Death Metal, then in its tumultuous
adolescence, into the malignant
force that it became in the early 90’s. The vocals are still pretty deep
and guttural, but not as much as on their earlier albums, however they
are only slightly different and they keep the Master trademark sound
intact. The drumming on this album is phenomenal.
But what really turned us on to this album is the atmosphere that it
puts off. The production is done so well. It’s like listening to an
album that came out in 1989 and that is what one wants from a good
Master album! As we said before, fans of the first couple Master albums
should really check this out, since it is a kind of return the the
basics albums. Any fan of old school Death Metal will love this album.