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[message]MASTER - Spirit Of The West CD (SLIPCASE)
MASTER - Spirit Of The West CD (SLIPCASE)
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Death/Thrash Metal classic remastered! A strong Master album re-issued.
This Master album holds Death Metal, Thrash Metal, even some punky
moments and a country song. No need to go through all songs here but
just a few to give you an indication. The album starts off with the
Thrashy “You’ll be blamed” which is reminiscent of the earlier
“Collection Of Souls” album (though catchier) and with Abomination
tendencies. Also a song such as “Sign Up” is very old school Thrash
Metal with those typical harsch Speckmann vocals. “The Serpents Tongue”
is a straight forward uptempo Death Metal tune and same goes for
“Whatever, Wherever, Forever”. The song “The Perfect Family” comes
closest to the d-beat Master we got used to from their first two albums.
A very nice surprise is the song “Pistols, Whips and Coyotes” which
refers a lot to Macabre in terms of riffs although sounding slightly
simpler because of the drums. Had Dennis The Menace played on this song
nobody would have noticed it isn’t Macabre.
The punky attitude of the album becomes most obvious on songs such as
“Rights of Life” and “Envy” (which almost sound like 1987-1991 era
Sodom). Most notable song is the
punk song “Another Day in Phoenix” which even has some clean vocals and
incidentally is one of the highlights of the album. We also should not
forget to mention closing song “Ring Of Fire”, a Johnny Cash cover
including the trumpets. “Spirit Of The West” is one of the most diverse
and surprising Master albums yet.