Master

Faith Is In Season

(c)1998 Pavement Music Inc.

Review by Vladimir Levin

Thanks to Pavement for the CD

Master plays a brand of political and anti-christian thrashy death-influenced metal, with gritty sand-paper vocals, fast and simple metal harmonies and NWOBHM guitar solos. The attitude of the band seems to be a proclamation of the hypocrisy of religion combined with a taste for pornographic obscenity and violence.

The vocal style, with an odd kind of gurgling hoarseness lends some originality to music that is otherwise not unappealing, but quite straighforward thrash. The booklet that comes with the CD is pretty twisted, but humorous, with photos of a freak swinging around an iron attached to his penis for the song entitled "Imprisoned" as well as a doctored photo of a woman about to give head to a man with two penises for "Addicted to the Pistol."

Much of the content of the CD can be summed up as anti-christian harangues in songs like "Broken Promise" and "Spiritual Bankruptcy." Still other songs, such as "We're about to Fall" and "Re-Terrorizer" deliver an apocalyptic prognostication. The whole message is wrapped up in surrender to a kind of hedonistic brutality in the face of lost innocence and betrayal by authority figures within religion and government.

In the final analysis, this CD isn't bad but its message is weakened by the well-worn platitudes of teen-aged angst and post-industrial ennui. The music itself is well-played, but can become boring to anyone, such as this reviewer, who's listened to a lot of thrash over the years.

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