REVIEW MASTER "SAINTS DISPELLED"

Master have also honored us with a new album via Hmmerheart Records.The strong predecessor "Vincictive Miscreant" is already six years old, so it's high time for new Master material. Mr. Speckmann and his bandmates once again offer an insanely good mix of death and thrash metal, as only Master can. Even though Master's music is of course not innovative these days, which is not the band's aim at all, you can still recognize the band among legions of death metal bands, and that's pretty much the highest compliment you can pay an extreme metal band, which on a spontaneous consideration on my part only applies to a maximum of two dozen bands.  This high recognition value is of course partly due to Paul Speckmann's slightly pressed, original vocals, which are recognizable among thousands of singers. On the other hand, there aren't many bands that have such a wonderfully driving, traditional, straightforward sound at the intersection of dark death metal and great thrash riffs, which always gives Master's music that slightly rocky touch. Master is still well described - if you're going to mention references - as a thrilling mélange of a little pinch of old Slayer, the filthiness of Motörhead, and the sinister sounds of Possessed, Autopsy, Pentacle and Benediction! Unfortunately, I only saw Master once countless years ago at the MTC in Cologne, but Master's music is once again particularly predestined for live performances. Master fans will get it anyway, otherwise all old-school fans should listen to and support Master more instead of the next Entombed and Grave epigone.