MASTER - With Lee On a Neck (Melodiya, 1991)

Master's second LP - "With Lee On a Neck" lived up much more to the "thrash" description then their S/T effort. Here we indeed have fast thrash throughout the album, and unlike S/T there isn't an outright "ballad" present. While being "accepted" and released on state-run Melodiya records, Master unlike Gorky Park stuck to their guns, while the lyrics did reflect something the establishment might have liked to hear (in the case of this album the theme of "peace") the music was not a 2nd rate Def Leppard meets Poison blend but breakneck thrash. Master is still a band today and continues to release albums, their modern material will have to make for another post however. There are 2 alternate covers to this LP. The one I have is the white cover. I don't know which one is an earlier pressing.

We Don't Want
God Save Our Fury


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