Pointless video post – ‘Corporate Masters’ by Tad Morose

Tad Morose is one of those bands, like Rage, whose music simply ‘clicked’ with me on first listen (and to say they are criminally underrated would be an exercise in gratuitous understatement). They play an enthralling blend of old-school heavy metal with the melodic direction of the best of progressive power and neoclassical metal (and their ex-vocalist Urban Breed could certainly match Geoff Tate at his peak in terms of power, vocal range and emotion), but at the same time featuring a depth and a merciless driving rhythmic sensibility which seems to be lifted straight from the playbooks of Teutonic thrash metal. ‘Corporate Masters’ here is on the breezy, ‘happy’ side for Tad Morose (to the point where it almost seems out-of-place on Undead), a fairly ‘traditional’ power metal number, but I get the impression that such was a deliberate choice on the part of Christer Andersson et al. A remarkable song all the same – it would not be Tad Morose if it weren’t absolutely first-rate, though.