Youre nothing but a Vindictive Miscreant! Cutthroat and aggressive Death Metal with some Thrash tendencies! In case you didnt know, Master are one of the original US Death Metal bands. The band was founded in 1983 and is now reissuing their fourteenth albums. If youre wondering why this band has such staying power just listen to their 1991 album On the Seventh Day God Created… Master, the music speaks for itself. Masters sound always stayed rooted in the extreme Metal of the 1980s, it has some Thrash or Hardcore Punk accents. Lyrically they are also not cut from the same cloth as your typical Death Metal band, the themes are political and societal, we often get a bitter or snarky commentary on American society and politics. The playing is mechanically precise; what gives the music character are Speckmanns grimy vocals. There is some real passion and anger in them and you can tell that the music comes from a deep place. Vindictive Miscreant is a lesson in the old-school, showing the bands mastery, (ahem), of song-based carnage and brutal, dirty heaviness. Studded through with a spiky thrash influence thats always served them well, the songs on Masters latest album stand up well against anything ostensibly similar you could match them against.