Even before MASTER got signed to Nuclear Blast in 1989, the band's demo recordings already had a major impact on the worldwide underground Metal scene. MASTER were among the very first to take the blueprint of Metal to a more extreme sound and songwriting approach. Paul Speckmann and co. matured the Thrash Metal scene and gave birth to the Death Metal scene along with the likes of MANTAS / DEATH, REPULSION, SLAUGHTER, POSSESSED and CELTIC FROST. Things evolved even further, and members of late 1980s fresh Extreme Metal acts like NAPALM DEATH, BENEDICTION and TERRORIZER started pushing labels like Nuclear Blast to give the not-long-before reunited MASTER their change to finally do their full length debut.
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