MASTER RELEASE "AMONG THE SEEDS OF DEATH"

 

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Among the Seeds of Death

Master

Hammerheart Records

16 October 2026

Master strikes again! Delivering old school Death Metal at its purest!

Master has always been a musical definition of anachronism for many of us and rightfully so. No matter which trend is or was hip, Paul Speckmann stretched off his middle-finger to that and did his usual mixture of Death Metal and intense Thrash Metal, that created a new genre in the late 80’s.

Many times, it was very successful and sounded a little bit better and sometimes it was really consistent, but he did not care about other people’s opinions (with the exception of the fans) and stayed focused on what Master could do best. And now, in 2026, he is going to release his 16th (!) full-length album “Among the Seeds of Death”. And it is a great continuation of all things Master, after the strong “Saints Dispelled” album from 2024.

So, what is new on “Among the Seeds of Death”? Nothing! And that is good, and the high quality of the songs will enter your ears and make you smile and headbang for sure. What the listener can expect is the expected mixture of old-fashioned death-thrash with a punk attitude which got stirred up together and out come as a very tasty mixture of old school Death Metal as only Speckmann can deliver!

You do not find modern sounds here, and it feels like a throwback into the 80s / early 90s, but that is what we all want any way. But is has all been recorded in a great, thick heavy sound, keeping the ancient feeling intact, but using the best of 2026’s recording process.

“Among the Seeds of Death” cannot disappoint any Master fans; it just cannot. Maybe some more Speckmann disciples can be caught with that?

Line up:

Paul Speckmann - Bass and vocals

Alex Nejezchleba - Guitars

Peter Bajci - Drums

For fans of: (old) Death, Massacre, Venom, Motörhead, Autopsy, Repulsion, Obituary

Tracklist:

1. Twas Always a Plan 

2. Among the Seeds of Death 

3. Injustice and Lack of Remorse 

4. A Cell With a Door and No Slave 

5. Unsettled Loss 

6. Within My Grasp 

7. Watch as Children Burn 

8. Dust’s Arrival 

9. Let’s Revoke

https://master.bandcamp.com/

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/master/3563203

https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMasterofficial

https://www.instagram.com/masterbandofficial/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2nEopdTfDVIY9e2UipMKNj

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRbXMg7uXRrSH9ciYS-k-g

SEA BASTARD RELEASE "CYCLOPEAN"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

SEA BASTARD - CYCLOPEAN

LABEL: ROAD TO MASOCHIST

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 30th 2026

Formed in 2011 by four musicians with a wealth of previous experience on the scene, Sea Bastard made rapid early progress. Their self-titled debut album appeared in 2012 and the follow up, Scabrous, was hot on its heels in 2013. The sheer weight and baleful intent of their malicious blend of suppurating sludge and decimating doom also saw them invited to tour with the likes of Witchsorrow and Primitive Man, as well as being selected to appear at high profile festivals like Desertfest, Damnation and Temples. However, after split releases with Keeper (2015) and Primitive Man (2016), Sea Bastard retreated into hibernation while the band members focussed on other projects dear to their decaying hearts. It took the request of a friend, diagnosed with a terminal illness, to reunite them in 2021 – something no one could refuse – and make them set sail on their polluted, poisoned waters once more. And now, after five long years, they are ready to invite us on another journey into their kingdom of torpid madness, with their third harrowing album…Cyclopean.

Nerve-shredding howls of feedback usher us into the subterranean rumble of Cyclopean’s first track, ‘Dark Altar’. You are carried onwards upon a thick, primal ocean of cloying darkness, the relentless earthshaking bass and gnarled, grizzled guitars bleeding your life from you like overzealous medieval physicians. Your desire to move, to think or even breath are all lost in the soporific, congealing tides. But Sea Bastard’s vast, sprawling tracks all cover a multitude of territories in their wanderings and an eruption of rage and spiralling chaos awaits, a razor’s edge of fear slicing into the dreamless slumber. Then, emerging from the residue of shadows, comes ’Entombed With The Pharaoh’, full of cavernous, malignant menace; the bass weaving threads of exotic atmosphere between the head-caving riffs and lich-like vocals. Nightmares lurk in this cunningly constructed maze-like mausoleum, even as it settles into a dark, rotten and mesmeric groove…and escape from the pyramid leads only to the arms of the ‘Prophet Of The People’, a song with an imperious swagger and untouchable, unquestionable power. It slides into a morass of wickedness, irresistible and heavier than God, dragging you down beneath the surface, where, far from the light a new sonic realm unfurls – bleak, broken and bereft of hope. Finally, crawling from an unnerving sense of emptiness, the formless beast of aggression and terror that is ‘Nameless Purgatory’…a last chapter that offers no return to the light, no respite from agony and confusion. Ungraspable, unknowable it stretches out before you like the plains of Hell and drags you, doomed and damned, past the limits of your endurance. Sea Bastard did not return to play around. This is doom and sludge operating in the farthest badlands of the genres and will leave you hollowed out and shellshocked.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul 'Win' Winstanley (Code, Grave Lines, King Leviathan etc), every note of Cyclopean is imbued with an impossible, unbearable weight; while the artwork of guitarist Oliver 'Irongiant ' Hill channels all the madness and soul crushing desolation that informs this torturous work. Set to be released by Road To Masochist on October 30th, on Double Black 12" vinyl and CD, Cyclopean is the heaviest album you will hear this year, in many different ways. There is no coming back from this.

Line up:

Steve Patton – Bass

Ian 'Monty' Montgomery - Vocals

Oliver 'Irongiant ' Hill – Guitars

George Leaver – Drums

Genre: Doom/Sludge Metal

For fans of: Primitive Man | Dead Existence | Dragged Into Sunlight | Rwake

Further information:

https://www.facebook.com/seabastarddoom

https://www.instagram.com/seabastarddoom/

https://www.youtube.com/seabastarddoom

https://seabastard.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bKWZ1zPK1bXb7j64jN02w