A true pioneer of extreme metal, PaulSpeckmann co-founded Master in 1983. Two years later the banddissolved, and Deathstrike was formed after a failed search for aguitar player for Master. A recording contract was eventuallysecured between Master and Nuclear Blast and in 1989 Speckmann(vocals, bass) along with Chris Mittelbrun (guitar) and BillSchmidt (drums) recorded their debut album in Solid Sound Studios,but things didn’t go quite as planned. Markus Staiger, the labelboss for Nuclear Blast, decided he didn’t like the production ofthe soon to be released self-titled Master album, Paul Speckmannrecalls. So after a few brief conversations it was agreed upon fromall parties that we would go to Morrisound Studios in Florida andrecord the album again, with a new line-up featuring myself, AaronNickeas from Abomination on drums and Jim Martinelli from BurntOffering on guitar, and add some additional songs. Legendaryproducer Scott Burns produced the new recording and after it wassent to Nuclear Blast it was once again rejected – for being toopolished. So in the end Burns remixed the previous recordings fromChicago and that was released as the Master debut album. I feltthat it would be a waste to throw out the Morrisound recordings, sothis was released as the first Speckmann Project album in 1991.Three decades have passed and now the time has come for a muchawaited follow-up album, this time in collaboration with Swedishdeath metal-savant Rogga Johansson, known from Paganizer,Ribspreader, Revolting and a myriad of other bands. So whatinspired Paul Speckmann to do a second Speckmann Project album in2021? Rogga felt that the many collaborations we did with theJohansson & Speckmann project were sadly not given theattention they deserved. Rogga and I have recorded severalexcellent albums together that have gone mostly unnoticed by thegeneral public! So maybe the press as well as the fans would relatebetter to the Speckmann name alone, Speckmann reasons. The music iswritten by Rogga while Paul Speckmann has penned all of the lyrics,but the riffs and arrangements are exactly what we’ve come toexpect from a pure Speckmann-product. The songs on this album havethat thrashing punk-aggression to it and Rogga has clearly learnthow to write in a style that very well mimics the old-school furyof the early Speckmann-works. Rogga is an excellent and experiencedsongwriter, but as for being a mimic in this sense, I must explain,Speckmann acclaims. When Rogga approached me regarding this revivalproject, it was basically in name only. What I mean is that Roggasaid he would write an old school record for me to sing. In myopinion, Kam Lee, Chuck Shuldiner, and I took the anvil and forgedthe way for a new genre of music, influencing the Scandinavians,the British, as well as the Americans with this new direction. Soobviously the influences of early death metal – as they went on tocall it – are here, but the songs are shorter and to the pointwhere the first Speckmann Project release had some long and anddrawn-out lengthy tracks. Three decades may have passed, but as faras lyrical themes not much has changed according to Paul Speckmann.The themes are always the same in all the bands that I am involvedin; anti-religion, anti-government and genuinely just believing inyourself and trusting your own instincts! I believe in freedom,although as the years go by steps are being continually taken tothese freedoms and turn the world into machines working for thebetterment of the wealthy and influential. With the first albumhaving such an elaborate origin story, one might wonder how FiendsOf Emptiness was recorded and came into being? We recorded thealbum rather quickly. Rogga always surrounds himself with the bestmusicians so he found the additional killer players, KjetilLynghaug (solo guitar) and Jon Rudin (drums), and recorded withthem Then he sent me the completed recordings and I entered ShaarkStudios here in the Czech Republic and recorded the vocals with thelyrics I had written. I usually sing two songs per week over a sixweek period. Then the mixes are done in Norway and we discuss themixes and take it from there. I hope one day to be able to recordthe complete project together in a studio in Sweden. Fingerscrosses that this will one day come to fruition. Paul Speckmannalso promise that we will not have to wait another 30 years for thenext one.

Track list:
1. Absolute Power
2. Indifferent
3. A Sick Carnival
4. Destroy The Weak
5. The Stall
6. The Corporete Twisted Control
7. Fiends Of Emptiness
8. The Victims In Silence They Lay
9. The So-Called Tyrants
10. A Diabolical Sense Of Proportions
11. Cancalled
12. Then The Calm Before The Storm
13. Through Darkness

Condition cover: mint / still sealed

Condition cd: mint

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