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Masters of Reality will enter the studio late January to record the follow up to their previous studio album "Deep in the Hole" (2001).
Founding member and "godfather of stonerrock" Chris Goss is ready to record a brandnew selection of guitardriven, hard rocking songs. We are waiting anxiously on the new music as the new album will surely be another masterpiece.
Chris Goss and Masters of Reality are a mystery. Nothing about them really figures. They are certainly not a household name, yet over the last decade they have amassed a cult following of fans and provided the world with three albums that have all been met with an almost embarrassing outpouring of critical acclaim. The LA Weekly described the Masters as "the best hard rock band around today. Period." "The band is poised beautifully between guitar thuggery of vintage Black Sabbath and the harmonies of the Beatles," writes the San Francisco Chronicle.
The band's first effort, the self-titled "Masters of Reality" also known to fans as "The Blue Garden" (a tribute to both the song and drummer John Leamy's painting), was met with immediate recognition around the World. Produced by Rick Rubin, this was the first hard rock album on the Def American label. A cut from the album was featured in the Steven Seagal action flick "Marked for Death." In 1994, the Masters follow-up album, "Sunrise on the Sufferbus," which featured a virtuoso performance by ex-Cream/Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker, put a single, "She Got Me (When She Got Her Dress On)" into Billboard's top ten playlist.
The 1997 release of "How High the Moon....Live at the Viper Room" was recorded on the spur of the moment at Johnny Depp's famed Sunset Strip nightclub. This intimate setting gives fans a glimpse of the Masters at their most amazing. It's been described as "the show we all wish we were at." One of the evenings many high points was Chris Goss being joined onstage by Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland on "Jindalee, Jindalie." In the interim, Chris Goss, the band's founder, frontman, guitarist, songwriter, and producer has kept busy with his visionary work behind the board.
His production is given much of the credit for making Kyuss into the desert-rock legends they are today. "I saw them and I liked them a lot," Goss says humbly of his affiliation in a recent interview. He has produced or performed on soundtracks including "Marked for Death", "Tank Girl", "Strange Days", and "Disturbing Behavior." There is even a Masters performance on a "Ren and Stimpy" episode. Goss has done production for Scott Weiland on both the Magnificent Bastards and Stone Temple Pilots, Ian Astbury, Josh Homme, Russell Crowe (LA Confidential), and many others. Goss produced one of 1999 top debut albums with The Flys "Holiday Man" featuring the top ten single "Got You Where I Want You" at his Palm Springs Studio, Monkey Studios.
In 1999 they released the album “Welcome to the Western Lodge”, the first one for Brownhouse Recordings. The album received great critical acclaim and showed a little more experimental side from the band. Songs like Moriah, The Great Spelunker and Take A Shot At The Clown are classic Masters of Reality songs.
In September 2001, Masters of Reality has released their newest studio album entitled “Deep in the Hole”. Chris has made a trip back towards the masterful “The Blue Garden” album as this new one breathes bluesy stoner rock with some fabulous guitar riffs and solos and features guest appearences by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age), Troy van Leeuwen (A Perfect Circle), Dave Catching and Mathias Schneeberger (The Earthlings), Nick Lucero (The Flys) and Brendon McNichol. The groove is solid, the melodies are deadly and the voice is magic, this album is to become a new milestone in rock!
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