Shatter Messiah - Never To Play The Servant

Published Nov. 07 2006

*=Staff's pick	Never To Play The Servant* Crucify Freedom Fratality* Hatred Divine Fear To Succeed All Sainted Sinners Inflicted Drinking Joy Bad Blood Blasphemy Feeder Deny God* Disillusion Bleed To Shadows New Kleen Killing Machine

Genre	Thrash/Heavy Metal	Greg Wagner	Vocals
Tracks	14	Curran Murphy	Guitar
Runningtime	59 Min.	Dusty Holt	Guitar
Label	Dockyard1	Ron Boisvert	Bass
Release	28 Aug. 2006	Robert Falzano	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Nevermore, Communic, Iced Earth

Here we have the new Nevermore disc! Or wait…sorry…it's not Nevermore. This is Shatter Messiah. A new band built around guitar player Curran Murphy (ex-Nevermore and ex-Annihilator) and singer Greg Wagner (Breaker, ex-Archetype) that sounds like a thrashier Nevermore.

Is it any good then? Well, there's nothing wrong with the performance but there's no standout songs on the album. A little more diversity in the song writing wouldn't have hurt this album at all. It's worth checking out for fans of Nevermore or Communic but nothing I will spend more time listening to. There's really not much more to write about this. It's just an OK album that passes by without much notice.

I prefer the latest Nevermore or Communic disc over this any day.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
8	6	7

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Mattias