PAUL SPECKMANN – Masterpieces

After a long phase of waiting, the time has come for such an enthusiastic role model-musician as PAUL SPECKMANN, one of the most legendary godfathers of Death Metal, to release good old material on CD. On the one hand some people would say that this output is just a commercial attempt to sell obsolete old-school stuff, but on the other hand Masterpieces will be honestly a musical biography of the liked death-lead-veteran, not only for true fans. And forsooth you can call this release a historic retrospect of a creating career. This disc includes a collection composed of Specki’s favorite tracks that were recorded over the last 25 years with his several projects and lineups such as Master (Obviously! But at this time the band was heavily influenced by Motörhead and Venom.), Abomination, Deathstrike, Solutions and Speckmann Project.
To give you a short insight of his metallic background: PAUL SPECKMANN began playing music with a short-lived heavy metal band from Chicago called Warcry in 1981 and after a while he and his band-mate and drummer Paul Schmidt founded the Master-project. Although the name of the group changed for a short space of time into Deathstrike, they decided to denominate this Thrash/Speed Metal affected brutal-community in Master again and recorded the infamous Master demo’s which were released foremost last year. After an open-ended separation, Specki united various formations like the ephemeral Funeral Bitch and the celebrated Abomination. Paul’s original band was reformed again to record for Nuclear Blast Records in 1989, simultaneous of the release of the Abomination debut. At the same time Mastermind SPECKMANN got in touch with Czech scene and started cooperating with the homey Death Metal-institutions Krabathor and Martyr (Krabathor-Sideproject). In his usual position as bassist and vocalist, the “king of Death Metal” also leads some bands nowadays, primary the glorious Master.
More detailed information you can find on Paul’s website. I just have to submit the words of the grand master: “This compilation is a must for collectors of Underground Metal!”