Ten Times Your Master

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Ten Times Your Master

Ten Times Your Master is a band, a lifestyle, and a basic prerequisite for human flourishing. Despite our primitive recording techniques, disheveled appearance, and rampant pettiness, our messianic commitment to guitar duels as a conflict resolution mechanism has resulted in our indisputable dominance of the musical arena and all other facilities whose structural soundness can bear the weight of our talent. Ten Times Your Master receives constant and universal acclaim, often from people who don't even realize it and might claim otherwise in a court of law. We are with you even when we are without you; we are your brothers, and you our kin.

Meet the band
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The Band

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Dusty Reigns (Lead lead guitar)

Biography: A potent combination of child-like curiosity and child-like analytical skills, Dusty Reigns is best known for his fiery guitar solos and his irresistible desire to throw new TVs into hotel room windows. A self-taught blues guitarist, he later became a self-taught Viking with a British accent, traveling the world and drinking from international culture with a shallow but enthusiastic cup. Shortly after claiming to have discovered Stonehenge, he released a new translation of the Rosetta Stone, introducing new and compelling semantic concepts which, if taken at face value, suggest that ancient Egypt was adjacent to, on top of, or formed a gentle mist around Atlantis. Dusty does not and will never play Fender guitars; he would like to play, but cannot currently afford, a Les Paul.
Previous bands: Straits of Ulysses, Onward Colossus, The Call Is Heard, It Is And Will Be

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Barrackus the Man (Drums)

Biography: Barrackus the Man has PhDs in philosophy, Jungian realities, cinematography, and subatomic particle physics. Known as the father of existential thrash punk, Barrackus the Man provided the rhythmic motifs and intellectual framework for the New Wave Of West Coast Navel-gazing Hardcore Thesis Defense Music (NWOWCNGHTDM). Barrackus the Man infamously passed his second thesis defense by trapping his advisor in a Möbius strip and then claiming to forget how to unfurl the recursive dimensionalities; the advisor was eventually released, but not before admitting that Barrackus the Man was correct in hypothesizing that, in the battle between an unstoppable force and an immovable object, Ten Times Your Master always wins.
Previous bands: Nietzsche Dagger, Mirrors of Foucault, Papal Vandalism, Alive But Forgotten

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Britt'ny Sparks (Bass guitar)

Biography: Unable to comprehend sheet music and deeply skeptical of both major and minor scales, Britt’ny Sparxx is nonetheless a foundational leader in the neo-hair metal scene, a scene that is notoriously guided by the commandment “party hard enough and the music will write itself.” This maxim may in fact be incorrect, since Britt’ny’s bass lines are rumored to have been composed by Rikki Shenker and recorded in Tokyo by a local member of the Yakuza. Regardless, Britt’ny’s love of fast cars, dangerous women, and emotional simplicity is an inspiration to low-skilled men across the globe.
Previous bands: Whyte Fyre, Spyder Byte, Sylent Nyght, Männ Eätür, Mürdür Düngn

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Rikki Schenker (Rhythm lead guitar)

Biography: Rikki is a master shredder and the inventor of the Scandinavian Phrygian scale, the only scale which prescribes both a set of notes and the minimum beats-per-minute at which those notes must be played. Rikki only writes songs about evil demons, evil robots, and various portals to evil things. The only reason that he played the guitar solo on the ballad “Hey, I’m a Bird” is that Dusty told him that the bird was evil. In fact, the bird in question was quite lovely and functioned as a rather obvious metaphor for romance.
Previous bands: Recent Evil, Witch Hammer, Phantasm Guard, Legion King, Wrathfire.

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Laserdisc (Keyboards)

Biography: Raised by dingoes but then classically trained at the Van Nordstrüm Haus of Notes, Laserdisc is the only keyboardist simultaneously accepted by metal players, orchestral musicians, and dingoes. His original life goal was to make prog rock popular, but in recent years he has settled on the more practical goal of inventing a time machine. An avid consumer of books, he only reads text in right-to-left order, regardless of the book’s language; this approach, known as “intentionally degraded comprehension,” is only recommended for experts or people who are deeply worried about surprises that live on the righthand sides of books.
Previous bands: Profound Ultraviolet, Ascension Ziggurat, Meandering Inverted Ectoplasm, Let’s Just Admit That We Do Not Fully Understand The Music We Are Playing

Listen to the music

The Music

Ten Times Your Master gives away its music for free! Using the interface below, you can play all of the songs from the album “A King in Every Corner.” The album is also available on Apple Music and YouTube Music.

Ten Times Your Master has serious concerns about late-stage capitalism and our alienation from the modes of production and what not. However, if you would like to financially support our tireless excellence, we accept donations of any denomination via the “buy” link above. We will also soon be printing a limited run of physical CDs; if you are interested in purchasing such an eternal heirloom, email [email protected] with the subject line “Inquiry about an eternal heirloom.”

Band interview

An Interview with Ten Times Your Master

TOKYO METAL REVIEW: What genre is Ten Times Your Master?
BARRACKUS THE MAN: Your question limits us and thus we reject it. Our genre is whatsoever we choose it to be. Our discoveries, hewn from the rock and the ocean, the fire and the storm, do not confine us, but rather forge a mighty engine that we ride to ever-changing shores. In each song, we herald a new age that is refashioned even as we announce its birth.
TOKYO METAL REVIEW: If all of that is true, why does Ten Times Your Master use traditional time signatures in their drum rhythms?
BARRACKUS THE MAN: We appear conventional only to conventional minds. You merely listen and think that your task is done, but our music demands more; as we have labored for you, so you will labor for us. Do you not perceive each raven in our 4/4 beat—a king in every corner, beckoning you to something greater? We provide the map, but you must be the compass. You ask about our rhythms, as if you could interrogate the firmament that holds the stars. Keep asking! But you may open a box that opens you instead. Inside our 4/4s are chromatic micro-rhythms that bend in violence, fractal and terrifying, a mosaic that repeats without repetition. They yield to our will—just barely—and the fissures in our yoke cast the light that guides our way. My drums are filled with lightning, if only you dare to catch it.
TOKYO METAL REVIEW: Uh, okay! But if you had to define your genre, what would it be?
BRITT’NY SPARXX: Metal. Definitely metal.

Allies of Ten Times Your Master
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Bands that are allowed to cover "Ten Times Your Master" songs

Led Zeppelin | Black Sabbath | Diamond Head
The UFO album “Strangers in the Night”
The Deep Purple album “Made In Japan”
Metallica up to (but not including) “The Black Album”
Guns n’ Roses (1987—1993)
Soundgarden | Alice in Chains
Phoebe Bridgers
If your band is not in the list above, but you sincerely believe that you are magnificent enough to cover a Ten Times Your Master song, please elaborate by emailing [email protected] so that we can judge you. In your email, please state your band’s name, why your band rocks, and which song(s) you would like to cover. Note that cover versions of “The Husband” must include both man vocals and lady vocals, although the two vocalists need not be married in real life. Furthermore, any cover of “We Will Return” must be the last song that you play in a live concert/studio album, and you must preserve the a cappella opening, regardless of your level of vocal talent.

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[email protected]