Master "Rehearsal Demo August 1985"

Spending your formative years listening to demos, rehearsals and live tapes of a somewhat lo-fi quality can have a strange effect on you. It means that you often find yourself enthusing about recordings that were done on a cheap stereo, costing the price of a D90, with no production at all. One such tape for me is the August 1985 Rehearsal Demo from Master, which despite them releasing albums even to this day, remains their peak IMHO. The "mix" (ahem) is too drum heavy, especially the cymbals but to my teenage ears it meant that Master thundered along in the same way that Genocide (later Repulsion) had managed on their "Stench Of Burning Death" tape. Most of the tracks were recorded for an album in 1985 which did the rounds on the tape trading scene but didn't see official release until 2003, but this recording shades even that. When Master released their self-titled debut for Nuclear Blast in 1990, the songs were well past their sell-by date.

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