The unsurpassed Death Metal monarchs MASTER returns with their eleventh full-length album The New Elite, an odious showcase of brick-wall musical integrity that has been quintessential MASTER even during the band's early inception. Now with 30 years on, Paul Speckmann and his insult-brigade have shown no signs on mellowing, but only more hateful than ever! Recorded, mixed and mastered at Shaark Studios (ROOT, FLESHLESS, etc) and with the emblematic artwork and layout designed by German graphic artist Mark Bridgeman, The New Elite is a bulldozing 45-minute audio-violence of social travesty and political coercion. Vehemently honest and the cruel truth does cut like a knife. This is MASTER! Period.
Review
While there is no denying the absolute tenacity with which Master assembles and shatters the psyche within the span of any one album, The New Elite is a tempestuous and vile slab of musical vermin that is about as brutal as it comes while still retaining a perfectly tangible, enunciated balance between guttural noise and intelligent metal easily consumable in large portions. - Metal Psalter 5/5