DEVIL MASTER – new album out

Photo By Nicholl Strouse

From the darkest, filthiest alleys of old Philadelphia, DEVIL MASTER arise once more to corrupt the children of light. Between tours and festival appearances, the masters of devilry wrote their third full-length, Bloody Dreams. Punkier, with a psychedelic lean, yet festooned with a feral black metal aura, the album gleams from the abyss.

Bloody Dreams is uniquely Devil Master. From lead single “You Worms’ Vain Delusions” to “Death Anthem” and “Sex with Succubus” to decaying bonnet of “Farewell Waltz to Unfortune’s Palace,” the Philadelphians haven’t shied away from the ghastly, boot-tapping spectacle they’ve ushered without permission into our unreality. Written entirely by Darkest Prince between the vellichor pages of decadence and time’s cruel hand, it’s an album that deceives. Up front, Bloody Dreams rages, mohawks and pale skin thumbing through the detritus of 17th-century graveyards. As it matures, it devolves, splaying minds into absinthe-laced psychosis and the untidiest of silhouettes.

For the production, Devil Master parked the horses at a friend’s house and at Spice House Sound in Philadelphia with budding engineer Davis M. Shubs and Grammy-nominated engineer Eric Bogacz to put Bloody Dreams to tape. They were ensconced between the coldest months of last and this year, soundstaging their six-track scapegrace to appear as an eyes-wide, claws-out experience. The whole bell-sleeved, unwashed affair was electrified into its final form by friend and mastering ace Arthur Rizk.

Guests include Mirai Kawashima (Sigh), former drummer Chris Ulsh (Power Trip), and Ur Èmdr Œrvn (Arkha Sva) and enhance Devil Master’s supernatural power. 

There is no shadow without light…Bloody Dreams invites you into and out of the abyss.

For fans of Venom, GISM, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Midnight, Discharge, Christian Death

The band is available for interviews.

They are also be on tour in the EU in September, with SIGH. All dates:

Sept 03: Aleksandrow Lodzki, PL – Summer Dying Loud Festival
Sept 04: Kracow, PL – Zaścianek
Sept 05: Brno, CZ – Kabinet MUZ
Sept 06: Budapest, HU – Robot *
Sept 07: Munich, DE – Hansa 39
Sept 08: Leipzig, DE – Moritzbasei
Sept 09: Berlin, DE – Badehaus
Sept 10: Copenhagen, DK – Beta
Sept 11: Hamburg, DE – Betty
Sept 12: Cologne, DE – Garagen *
Sept 13: Leeuwarden, NL – Neushoorn
Sept 14: Utrecht, NL – DB’s
Sept 15: Paris, FR – Backstage By The Mill

* Devil Master only

Devil Master is:

Darkest Prince – Guitar

Hades Apparition – Guitar

Disembody Through Unparalleled Pleasure – Vocals, bass

Wrought by Fathomless Hands – Drums