MASTER Announces South American Tour

Legendary old-school death metallers MASTER will embark on a five-week South American tour. Dubbed the "Masters Of Hate Tour", the trek will commence on January 14, 2010, with the final destination ending at the Otacílio Rock Festival in Santa Catarina, Brazil on February 21. Joining MASTER as tour support throughout will be U.K. modern metallers AFTER DEATH and Brazilian death metallers PREDATOR.

"Masters Of Hate Tour" dates (venue details to be announced):

Jan. 14 - Sao Paulo/SP
Jan. 15 - Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Jan. 16 - Vilha Velha/ES
Jan. 17 - Salvador/BA
Jan. 22 - Aracaju/SE
Jan. 23 - Maceio/AL
Jan. 24 - Recife/PE
Feb. 07 - Belem/PA
Feb. 12 - Palmas/TO
Feb. 13 - Goiania/GO
Feb. 14 - Brasilia/DF
Feb. 18 - Campinas/SP
Feb. 19 - Santos/SP
Feb. 20 - Curitiba/PR
Feb. 21 - Otacílio Rock Festival - Santa Catarina, Brazil

MASTER has set "The Human Machine" as the title of its tenth full-length album. The band has also tapped in Israeli artist Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, AGHORA, TO-MERA, GWAR, SICKENING HORROR) to work on the CD's visual aspects.

MASTER will enter the studio in December to begin recording the CD for an early 2010 release via Pulverised Records.

In a recent interview with U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine, MASTER mainman Paul Speckmann stated about the forthcoming album, "I have written about ten tracks and guitarist Aleš Nejezchleba has about six tracks to offer me at the moment for the new CD. We will get together after the next tours of Mexico and South America with the drummer Pradlovsky and begin the arrangements for the CD. This is really the first time where we are taking our time on an album. But expect a killer production on this one of course."

He continued, "It will sound like MASTER always do: killer and aggressive. I suppose you'll have to wait and see. It will definitely be an original MASTER album. We never change for the trends as most of the successful scene does. MASTER still play the same original style we always has since the incarnation of the band in 1983. It certainly surprises me that many of the bands today jump on the current trends, and have success with this. For me there is nothing like the original bands."

Regarding the new CD title, Speckmann said, "People have become slaves to the greater machine called the government in every city of the world and it's a real pity to see this bullshit. Big Brother gets stronger with every waking moment and soon freedom for the masses will be a thing of the past as George Orwell predicted in 1984. Soon the masses will have a rebellion or it's finished."