Combining first-wave Satanic black metal, Japanese hardcore, Yankee d-beat, and swirling death rock, Philadelphia's Devil Master are an extreme music outfit who don't care about artificial genre boundaries. They thrash, wail, drone, and shred while they worship the Evil One and his minions. But Devil Master treat the unwholesome -- eternal damnation, horror, misery, unholy union with the undead -- as causes for celebration and humor, not planks in a dour pseudo-religious platform. Their debut compilation, Manifestations on Relapse (which combines their first demos and a single...