{"id":37631,"date":"2003-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/masterplan\/"},"modified":"2003-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"masterplan","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/masterplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With former members of Helloween, Iron Savior and Ark,<br \/>\nMasterplan has the looks of a supergroup, and plays with a<br \/>\nconfidence that would contradict most bands coming into their first<br \/>\nalbum. The tightness of the first track guarantees no rookies,<br \/>\nblending classical-influenced keyboards and elaborate guitar<br \/>\nrhythms into songs that could shake the airwaves if only they had<br \/>\nshorter hair.<\/p>\n<p>Helmet based an entire career on the lock-step riffing<br \/>\nMasterplan does on the first song, but our boys do it with emphasis<br \/>\non m-m-metal, which isn&#8217;t a dirty word anymore. The vocals often<br \/>\nsuggest Chris Cornell reaching for it, and the songs occasionally<br \/>\nrely on self-help book proverbs, but it all comes in short doses.<br \/>\nPrecise, complex and sharp, these tracks played over and over and<br \/>\nover in my stereo; and that&#8217;s part compliment and complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The songs were consistently great, but their record label mixed<br \/>\nall eleven numbers onto a single 50:51 track to send to press folks<br \/>\nlike me. How am I supposed to listen to &#8220;Bleeding Eyes&#8221; without<br \/>\n<FWD>ing past most of the album? Another grumble would be<br \/>\nthat whoever mixed this should ponder diversity; every single song<br \/>\nfades out, and bleeds into the next. The sameness of the mixing<br \/>\nhurts<br \/>\n<i>Masterplan<\/i> in the end, as the entrance of &#8220;Crawling From<br \/>\nHell&#8221; takes your mind away from the song themselves, and you ponder<br \/>\nwhat you&#8217;d have done that day in post-production instead.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m considering buying the full-length of this online<br \/>\nsomewhere just so I can hear a single song at a time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6865],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37631","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-masterplan","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37631"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37631"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}