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‘Greedgripped & Spellspoilt’ is BATTLEMASTER’s most aggressive and sardonic tormentation to date. These 11 new besiegings are spilling over with soaring inetherial riffs that haunt and disturb; yet at a density so jagged and calculated that bones will snap casually and constantly. Extreme speed is definitely happening. Hostility is the mood.
Slaughtered by the blitz of the master’s drums, and shaken to blind drooling by the audible metal bass guitar, this tale of gluttony will leave all who listen upset and rethinking their own miserable motivations. Belligerent solos and leads work in parallel with violently sharp oration, to rapidly and repeatedly create and destroy your consciousness over and over like a hypno-waking phantasmogorical waterboarding.
If you’re already familiar with these freaks of fantasy, you’re still not ready for this level of high adventure - but you must take the ride. If you haven’t checked BATTLEMASTER out yet, rolling the dice on this album will not only lobotimise you - you also won’t walk the same for weeks.
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releases October 21, 2023
Artwork by Ellie Livingston
Recorded by Yave Rust, Alex Psitos, and Andy Horn
Mixed by Alex Psitos with help from David Waltenbaugh
Mastered by Ian Campbell
Guest vocals on "Plunderdrunk" by Zack 'Ripper' Rose