GREAT MASTER

track-list:
Le Pharaon
Back Home
The Left Hand Joke
Where The Shame Lives
I Am The Master
Your Fall Will Come
Nest Of Stone
My Name
Man From The East
The Weak Point
Final Revenge
On October 5th (Wait And Hope)
Montecristo

Great Master are:
Stefano Sbrignadello – vocals, flute
Jahn Carlini – guitars, backing vocals
Manuel Menin – guitars
Giorgio Peccenini – keyboards, backing vocals
Massimo David – bass, backing vocals
Denis Novello – drums

Great Master are pleased to present their sixth official album, a year and a half after ‘Thy Harbor Inn’ the Italian epic-power metal combo detaches itself from the themes related to piracy, to embrace one of the most important stories of 19th century European literature:
The Count of Montecristo.
In the great novel (1844-1846) by Alexandre Dumas, adventure, philosophy, warning about evil and revenge are mixed in a kaleidoscope of characters and events that traces the historical context of mid-19th century Europe.
‘Le Pharaon’:
“1815, the merchant ship Pharaon plows the Mediterranean Sea towards Marseilles… on board the young nineteen year old Edmond Dantès, second in command, who can’t wait to go back home, our story is about to begin.”
‘Back Home’:
“Dantès returns home and everything seems to go smoothly: the shipowner Morrel informs him that he will be the new captain of the Pharaon, with his new pay he will help his father and will finally be able to marry his promised Mercedes, but dense storm clouds of envy and wickedness gathering on the horizon…”
‘The Left Hand Joke’:
“Moved by envy, Danglars, the ship’s scribe and candidate for the appointment of captain, organizes a trap to frame Edmond with the complicity of Fernand Mondego, in love with Mercédès, and Gaspard Caderousse, Dantès’ envious neighbor. An anonymous letter is thus written, in which he denounces Edmond accusing him of being a Bonapartist agent. The letter ends up in the hands of the public magistrate Gérard de Villefort. The latter, despite being aware of Edmond’s innocence, issues an arrest warrant against him to protect his personal interests.”
‘Where the Shame Lives’:
“Edmond Dantès is arrested and taken at night to the prison of the Château d’If where he is condemned to spend the rest of his life. Just when the hopes of returning free vanish and madness begins to make its way into his mind, he makes the acquaintance of another prisoner, Abbot Faria who has been digging an underground tunnel for years, in the hope that he can lead him out of the fortress.”
‘I’m The Master’:
“The abbot helps Dantès to shed light on the events that led him to prison. Aware that he has been the victim of a conspiracy, Edmond vows to take revenge on all those who framed him. He is instructed by Faria in various disciplines, from mathematics to chemistry, from foreign languages to philosophy. Before dying and aware of Dantès’ goodness of mind, he reveals to him the exact location of a hidden treasure on the island of Montecristo. Dantès replaces Faria inside the sack in which the old man had been placed for burial, and thus manages to escape.”
‘Your Fall Will Come’:
“Finally free, after 14 years of imprisonment, and finding himself in possession of an immense fortune thanks to the discovery of the treasure indicated to him by Faria, Dantès realizes how his long experience in prison has changed him: both physically, giving him physical vigor, and mentally, giving him a much greater depth and breadth of knowledge: from a young idealist he has grown into a sharp man, close to obsessed with his intentions to repay in kind what they have done to him, taking revenge. Dantès builds a new identity, thus the Count of Montecristo is born.”
‘Nest of Stones’:
“Back in Marseilles Montecristo discovers that Mercedes has married Mondego with whom she has a son: Albert. The Count looks into his heart and discovers it turned into stone, there is no longer any place for past love: the happy days have passed, now there is only room for revenge.”
‘My Name’:
“In Marseilles, to implement the plan of revenge, Montecristo assumes a series of different identities, such as that of the abbot Busoni, with whom he visits Caderousse and from whom he gets to tell the details of the plot, the death of his father, the fate of his beloved Mercédès and of the stories of the other conspirators, and those of the English nobleman Lord Wilmore and of Sinbad the sailor, through whom he performs good deeds towards those who have always been loyal to him.”
‘Man From The East’:
“Ten years pass in which travels to the East and knowledge prepare the Count to define his revenge.”
‘The Weak Point’:
“The Count takes stock of his opponents’ weaknesses, investigating their past, each of them has something not to be proud of, and some hidden secrets… but not enough for the Count, who is ready to hit them where it will hurt most.”
‘Final Revenge’:
“The Count’s plan takes shape, he saves Morrel from bankruptcy; Caderousse died by the hand of his accomplice, while attempting a coup on his house; drives Fernand to suicide, after having dishonored him in front of all the Parisian nobility; he ruins Villefort by making his wife and youngest son commit suicide, also discovering an illegitimate son of the former Prosecutor; he bankrupts and has Danglars kidnapped by bandits, whose life he saves in extremis, and granting him forgiveness. Finally he leaves Mercedes, alone and penniless, his old father’s house in Marseilles.”
‘On October 5th (Wait And Hope)’:
“Revenge has gone too far by overwhelming everything and everyone, not just those responsible for the plot, it’s time for redemption for the Count. to Morrel’s son he leaves all his possessions in France and marries him to the girl he loves, the only survivor of the Villefort family: Valentina. the Count with his protégé Haydee, set sail for a new life, leaving the two young lovers a message of waiting and hope.”
‘Montecristo’:
“In the end comes a reflection from the Count, and a warning to the listeners who have empathized with his story: from the abyss of revenge, which overwhelms everything, one does not emerge as redeemed angel but as demon tested by the abyss.”