Tag: Master
Master – Saints Dispelled Review
The hype sticker for Saints Dispelled states simply, “When it says Master, you get Master.” A truer distillation of a new Master album in 2024 would be hard to come by, I will concede — …
Staff Infections – January 2024
Happy new year, friends. After a month off, it is time once again for Staff Infections. I hope 2024 finds you all happy and healthy. Myself, I got a little spinal injury for Christmas, so …
Master – Vindictive Miscreant Review
“You’re nothing but a vindictive miscreant!” spit-snarls Master mainman Paul Speckmann to open this one, his primary band’s 14th album in twice as many years. And if you know Master, if you’ve been keeping up …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: June 17th – June 23rd
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses to …
Johansson & Speckmann – From The Mouth Of Madness Review
Though I’ve been a fan of Master / Death Strike and Abomination for ages, and though I enjoy Paganizer and The Grotesquery amongst some others of Johansson’s myriad outlets, I wasn’t blown away by the …
Johansson & Speckmann – Edge Of The Abyss Review
“If two journeymen journey enough, at some point, they will inevitably journey together…” — an ancient Chinese proverb that I just made up Johansson & Speckmann is the rather uncreatively named pairing of death metal …
Gems from the Back of the Fridge, Part 1 – Albums You Might Have Missed in 2016
You have a better chance of living off the cash in your tip jar as an embalmer than you would keeping up with every metal release that shoots across this scene’s radar every year. All …
Master – The New Elite Review
For nearly thirty years, Paul Speckmann and some form of Master have been releasing quality thrash- and d-beat-tinted death metal. Alongside the likes of Death and Possessed, Master is one of the bands directly responsible …