{"id":15818,"date":"2016-04-01T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15818"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:50:13","slug":"15818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15818","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Savage Master &#8211; With Whips and Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Savage Master &#8211; With Whips and Chains<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date:<\/strong> May 13, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Label<\/strong>: The Skol Records \/ High Roller Records<\/p>\n<p>When I hear Kentucky, I think of baseball, bowling green hills, and bluegrass music. As a matter of fact, Kentucky is the last place I would probably think about when thinking of heavy metal. Well, straight out of Louisville comes a metal mistress named Stacey Savage and her band of henchmen that follow her around cloaked in masks and donning chains. Together, they call themselves Savage Master and let me just say this right now. If you have ever loved the rawness, gutsiness, unforgiving, and relentless sound of classic 80\u2019s NWOBHM bands such as Venom, Raven, and Grim Reaper than hold on tight to your tits because Savage Master is the band for you and trust me, they\u2019ll rip your tits clean off.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gyXw8ctRhgQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Savage Master\u2019s latest album, With Whips and Chains is raw and chockfull of all the things that made me fall in love with heavy metal music as a wee young lad. Musically, the band is tight yet raw and unpolished while lead vocalist Stacey Savage sounds like the love child of Rob Halford and Cherrie Currie fronting Grim Reaper. Yes, I know about Halford but you\u2019ll get the idea the minute you hear this woman\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>Right out the gates with, \u201cDark Light of the Moon\u201d, I could feel sweat and the work that this band was putting into this track. From there, the album moves like a heavy metal juggernaut pounding you over the head track after track. From the groove of \u201cPath of the Necromancer\u201d to the Iron Maiden inspired, \u201cSatan\u2019s Crowns\u201d, With Whips and Chains is an album that never gets boring or tired. This is an album that transports me back to a time when metal bands weren\u2019t cool or stylish and when the lyrics were full of awesomely cheesy mysticism, sorcery, and dark magic undertones. With Whips and Chains is a no frills, classic headbangers delight. Clocking in at a mere 35 minutes, Savage Master has mastered the art of understanding that less is definitely more. Savage Master does more in 35 minutes than most metal bands can do in twice that time and still leave you wanting more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savage Master &#8211; With Whips and Chains Release Date: May 13, 2016 Label: The Skol Records \/ High Roller Records When I hear Kentucky, I think of baseball, bowling green hills, and bluegrass music. As a matter of fact, Kentucky is the last place I would probably think about when thinking of heavy metal. Well, straight out of Louisville comes a metal mistress named Stacey Savage and her band of henchmen that follow her around cloaked in masks and donning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1420,1549],"class_list":["post-15818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-savage-master","tag-stacey-savage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}