Liege Lord

Master Control

Metal Blade Records 72268 LP 1988 (USA)

Liege Lord is an American speed/power metal band, active in the 1980s and considered to be a pioneer of the genre. It was formed by Matt Vinci, Anthony Truglio and Frank Cortese.

Reaching cult status in the metal world with their three releases, the band featured Joe Comeau, who would later go on to play with thrash metal bands Overkill and Annihilator. Guitarist Anthony Truglio went on to play in the band Gandhi with Page Hamilton from Helmet, and also played in the new version of Helmet. Guitarist Paul Nelson received a Grammy nomination as guitarist and song writer with Johnny Winter on Virgin/EMI, and he performed on Late Night with David Letterman Winter in 2012 in support of their Megaforce/Sony release entitled Roots which he performed on and produced. He also appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show on ABC TV to promote Winter's Step Back CD which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Album Charts Featuring Eric Clapton, Joe Perry, Joe Bonamassa, Ben Harper, Leslie West Ben Harper and Dr. John. Nelson received a Grammy for "Step Back" and also appeared in Johnny Winter's "Down and Dirty Movie", which he also the films Executive Producer. Billboard chart's top 200 with the band Halifax. Nelson did guitar work for WWE (then WWF) on nationally broadcast television specials.

Master Control was recorded from March 22 to April 11, 1988. The album was produced by Terry Date and Liege Lord.

Tracklist
A1 Fear Itself
Lyrics By – Vinci
Music By – Truglio
4:24
A2 Eye Of The Storm
Lyrics By – Comeau
Music By – Nelson
4:14
A3 Master Control
Lyrics By – Vinci
Music By – Truglio
5:06
A4 Kill The King
Written-By – Powell, Blackmore, Dio
3:44
A5 Soldiers' Fortune
Lyrics By, Music By – Vinci
2:58
B1 Feel The Blade
Lyrics By – Comeau
Music By – Nelson
3:29
B2 Broken Wasteland
Lyrics By – Comeau
Music By – Nelson
4:15
B3 Rapture
Lyrics By, Music By – Vinci
4:24
B4 Suspicion
Lyrics By, Music By – Vinci
3:10
B5 Fallout
Lyrics By – Vinci
Music By – Truglio
5:39

Marketed By – Restless Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Metal Blade Records
Copyright (c) – Metal Blade Records
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-20075
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-20076
Published By – Bloody Skull Music
Published By – Eule Music
Recorded At – Carriage House Studios
Mastered At – Capitol Mastering

Arranged By – Liege Lord
Artwork [Processed By] – Chromemakers
Backing Vocals [Additional, From The Homeboys From Hell] – Cheryl V., Danny, Dave G., Eric P., Frank C., Greg T., Joe C., Kevin Muck, Mark, Matt L., Matt M., Matt V., Nick, Nick C., Pat G., Paul N., Phil P., Ray H., Rich, Terry D., Tom, Tony G., Tony T.
Bass Guitar – Matt Vinci
Cover, Illustration – John Zeleznik
Design [Graphic] – Bland Design Group, Wendy Kramer
Drums – Frank Cortese
Engineer – Terry Date
Engineer [Additional] – Matt Lane
Lead Guitar [Guitars] – Paul Nelson, Tony Truglio
Photography By [Back Cover] – Jeffrey Fellows
Producer – Liege Lord, Terry Date
Vocals – Joseph Comeau

Recorded at Carriage House Studios from 3/22 to 4/11/1988.

Published by Bloody Skull Music (BMI). Administered by Bug Music except A4 published by Elite Music (BMI) 1978.

On the label, track A5 is written as "Soldiers Of Control".

Manufactured/printed in U.S.A.

 

Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a plastic inner sleeve, in a picture sleeve in GOOD condition (edge wear, corner cut)

Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales

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