MASTER'S HAMMER aus Böhmen gehörten zu den exzentrischsten Vertretern des Black Metal in den frühen 1990ern, und die ihnen gebührende Wertschätzung erfahren sie erst jetzt. Vielleicht animierte ja dieser Zuspruch die Band zur Veröffentlichung eines neuen Albums:

"The new album of Master's Hammer is out now. It comes fourteen years after the last, rather experimental "Šlágry", and seventeen years after the last blacketal operetta "Jilemnický Okultista". Today, we're likely going to capture an attention of another generation of fans. Nevertheless, our aim was to have fun (adequately to our age) and to use proven blackmetal methods to express ourselves. Mantra is in many eastern religions a synonymum for "word of truth". I wrote these songs after real stories and feelings taken from countrysides we partly live in, namely Southern Bohemia and India. Hence the subtitle "Countryside Operetta"."

Quelle: http://www.mastershammer.com/mantras.html