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Many, many things have changed in the world since Udo Dirkschneider first belted out Accept's theme song, "Balls to the Wall," back in 1983. Communism was abolished all over Eastern Europe, apartheid ended in South Africa, Rudy Giuliani enabled Times Square to become a lot like Disneyland, and the Internet created a whole new generation of technology-minded entrepreneurs. Then there are all the musical changes that took place -- thanks to the Nirvana/Pearl Jam/grunge upheaval that occurred in the early '90s, alternative rock became rock's primary direction. But some things haven't changed much since 1983, and Dirkschneider is a prime example. Mastercutor is a 2007 release that parties like it's still 1983; Dirkschneider remains firmly, stubbornly committed to old-school power metal, and this 50-minute CD is totally oblivious to post-'80s developments in metal. But if Mastercutor sounds dated, that doesn't make it any less inspired. While few surprises occur, Dirkschneider has no shortage of passion on melodic but hard-driving tracks like "Vendetta," "The Instigator," "Walker of the Dark," and "Crash Bang Crash" -- all of which sound like they could have appeared on an Accept album back in the day. Some veteran headbangers have changed with the times; Tommy Lee, for example, embraced alternative metal and rap-metal after leaving Mötley Crüe and launching his Methods of Mayhem project in the late '90s. But on Mastercutor, Dirkschneider refuses to leave the '80s behind -- and given how solid this album is, that is probably just as well. Dirkschneider sticks with the type of metal he does best, and the result is an enjoyable disc that falls short of essential but will please the German headbanger's die-hard fans. ~ Alex Henderson U D O Mastercutor Songs | 1. | Mastercutor |
| 2. | Wrong Side of Midnight, The |
| 3. | Instigator, The |
| 4. | One Lone Voice |
| 5. | We Do - For You |
| 6. | Walker of the Dark |
| 7. | Master of Disaster |
| 8. | Tears of a Clown |
| 9. | Vendetta |
| 10. | Devil Walks Alone, The |
| 11. | Dead Man's Eyes |
| 12. | Crash Bang Crash |
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Mastercutor Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews The Right Side of Midnight
Danke UDO and camp for such an aggressive offerring. The tiny German
with a huge sound. It just amazes me that a man who just turned 55 years young can put out a killer album. Accept had it's place in time and Heir
Dirkschneider carried the banter onward. Keep putting these records out and I'll keep buying them. Metal has never left, but if it did; it is most assurdedly back with Mastercutor!
Submitted by MeatRex (LoneStar State) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. UDO at the top of his game
This is an outstanding effort by UDO. There are a couple of ballad-ish tunes that don't make this quite a nonstop metalfest, but the aggressive nature of most tracks on this album more than make up for it. Lead guitar is technical & melodic, and the rhythms provide a solid foot tapping (or head banging) foundation.
I love it that such an artist exists that hasn't caved in and mellowed with time. This album provides the defiance and aggressiveness I know that I can expect from UDO every time.
Submitted by HVMETAL (Seattle, WA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Best UDO Ever
This is by far the best UDO cd ever! It is very similar to Accept Predator disc which is great! It is loud, heavy, and there really is not a bad song on the CD although I could do without the intro and outro which only take away from the attached song! Otherwise this is an exceptional or should I say "acceptional" CD that rates up there with the best Accept CDs which is saying something some 25 years later!
Submitted by WB (Petersburg NJ)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No heavier, aggressive and even sinister
U.D.O. retunrs yet this time, with a definite bent towards the darkly aggressive and pathological. The Accept trademarks from the Breaker-Restless & Wild-Balls to the Wall era are fully intact but I must say, I did not expect such a guitar wailing, in your face romp this time around. The guitars surge with power like no other UDO record before it and bottom line, this band laid it down with a bloody unsettling vengeance.
Submitted by The Trooper (Hell-ville, WA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No The best
UDO is without a doubt one of the top Metal acts and has carried on the Accept torch with honor and pride. A must for any fan of Accept and if you never new about UDO and Accept now is the time. UDO rules!!
Submitted by swone_99 (Mesa, Arizona)
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Purchase Mastercutor CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | U D O Man And Machine CD (2002) (Import) Germany
Mastercutor
 $16.49 
U.D.O. is the first name of the lead singer of this outfit. Udo Dirkschneider is best known for his work with the metal band Accept and presents here a solo album featuring a band composed of himself, Igor Gianola, Stefan Kaufman, Fitty Weinhold, and Lorenzo Milani. The album certainly rocks out with the best of them and showcases ...
| | U D O Mission No. X CD (2005)
Mastercutor
$14.05 
Those who only know Udo Dirkschneider from his German metal band Accept, which (via "Balls to the Wall") enjoyed a shimmer of success during the '80s metal heyday in the U.S., won't find any surprises with his newer project, U.D.O. The latter group's genesis actually goes back to the late '80s, after the split of Accept (who would reunite in the mid-'90s). Many '80s metallers had a tendency to dismiss their lumpen roots in later years; Rob Halford explored Trent Reznor-like industrial music in the wake of ...
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| | Social Distortion Somewhere Between Heaven & Hell CD (1992) Bonus Tracks
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HEAVEN AND HELL is Social Distortion's finest hour, the crystallization of all the elements that made it a great band. The country and rockabilly influences cultivated on previous albums are fully integrated here, so that Jimmy Work's country classic "Making Believe" sounds perfectly at home amid Mike Ness's own compositions. It's often hard to tell whether the band is punking up covers of old country and rockabilly tunes or incorporating those influences into its own songs, and that's the telling mark of assimilation. Ness's songwriting is at its sharpest and most memorable here. The powerful guitar assault achieves a newfound clarity here, which made it possible for the most melodic offerings on HEAVEN AND HELL ("Bad Luck") to achieve heavy radio play and raise the group to a new level of popularity.
Social Distortion finally achieves the perfect balance between their two major influences, the country anguish of Johnny Cash and the furious punk rock sound of early Clash, on their 1992 album Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, making it the band's finest hour. The band tears through a fair share of rollicking, straight-ahead hard rock with songs like "Cold Feelings" and "When She Begins," but they also show a reflective, heartfelt, country-inspired side with songs like "This Time Darlin'" and the hard rock tribute to "Folsom Prison Blues," the cold blooded, murderous tale "99 to Life." At times the band slows down the pace a bit more than on earlier albums, but the band hasn't lost any of the edge or attitude they had as the brash young punks who recorded Mommy's ...
| | Burnt By The Sun Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good CD (2003)
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Consider this the true follow-up to Burnt by the Sun's hugely promising self-titled debut EP. This is the group's second full-length, following 2002's Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution, an album that was widely acclaimed yet still somewhat disappointing to some fans of the more experimental, grindcore-leaning EP. Soundtrack found the band reorienting to a sort of all-American, middle-of-the-road hardcore-metal fusion that, while still fairly heavy, seemed tame in comparison to that earlier release. Lyrically, it also came off as preachy and pedantic in spots. This disc remedies those problems, though. Musically, it falls ...
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