Alongside the legendary likes of Death and Possessed, Chicago’s Master helped lay the groundwork for modern extreme metal. The band’s vicious debut album was rejected by thrash label Combat Records for being too heavy, too raw, and wasn’t released until 2001, under the descriptive (if not inventive) title Unreleased 1985 Album. The band has been cited as an influence on later bands ranging from Napalm Death to Incantation, and strains of their ferocious, snarling death/thrash can be heard on countless records.  Through numerous line-up changes and a late-90s relocation from Illinois to the Czech Republic, Master master Paul Speckmann has kept the band’s violent vision intact. 2007’s Slaves To Society saw the band in raging rabid form, ripping through eleven tracks of socio-politically charged fury and showing that, even a quarter-century into their career, Master still lives up to their name. 

Metal Review is very excited and very proud to offer an exclusive streaming track from Master’s forthcoming record, The Human Machine, which will be released in the US by Pulverised Records in 2010.

Bow before the Master and "Worship The Sun."