Pointless video post - ‘Воля и Разум’ by Мастер

As a fan of Russian metal band Мастер, I am quite grateful that the Russian bands Ария and Мастер split off from each other. Each one played a very distinctive style of music: Ария continued with Valery Kipelov and Vladimir Holstinin to play a style of classic heavy metal with very strong influences from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, whereas Мастер under Alik Granovskiy took on a completely uncompromising speed / thrash dimension for its following two albums. But in those early days it wasn’t really quite clear what poor Мастер would do with itself: their first LP was a mishmash of the NWoBHM style with thrash, featuring heavier, slower numbers like this one, the angry apocalyptic anti-Cold War rocker ‘Will and Reason’ (or ‘Воля и Разум’, actually technically an Ария cover, even though most of the members of Мастер were in Ария when the song was written). Turned out Мастер could play both thrash and more traditional forms of metal with aplomb (and their political dimension was present even at this early date)! Enjoy, gentle listeners.