Master
"The Human Machine"
(Pulverised Records)

Fronted by the legendary Paul Speckmann, Master is true to its founder by being nothing but that - old school US death metal. Tortured gutteral vocals, fuzz toned guitar and crunching rhythms proudly give the finger to all those that would even think of anything compromising (i.e. keyboards) as they crank and shank out the grooves that made the likes of Death and Massacre into a genre of their own. I'm so glad that even if Paul now lives in Europe, he still chunks out this old school shite made all the more credible as one of the original purveyors of it. Complete with an old school cover, this album could've come out've the 80s and that's just where brooding grinders like 'It's What Your Country Can Do For You', 'Suppress Free Thinking' and the classic 'Faceless Victims Expelled' are at - answer to the Master!

-Shan Siva