Masters Of Reality return with new full-length album »The Archer« on Mascot Records; watch »Mr. Tap N’ Go« visualizer video!

Chris Goss and his Masters Of Reality return with their new full-length album, »The Archer«, which will be released on March 28th, 2025 via Mascot Records.

Watch a visualizer video for the first single »Mr. Tap N’ Go« below!

Tracklist:
01. Sugar
02. The Archer
03. I Had A Dream
04. Chicken Little
05. Mr. Tap N’ Go
06. Barstow
07. Powder Man
08. It All Comes Back To You
09. Bible Head

Courtesy of Mascot Label Group:

The iconic Masters Of Reality are set to release their first new album in 16 years with »The Archer«, via Mascot Records. The album will be available digitally on March 28 and be available physically on CD and LP on April 11, 2025. Pre-order »The Archer« on CD or Vinyl HERE.

Chris Goss is one of the elusive geniuses of American music. As the singer, guitarist and driving force behind Masters Of Reality, he’s spent more than 40 years charting his own musical journey, travelling from mystical blues to desert rock to psychedelia-edged beauty via all points in between.

Goss has positioned himself as one of the most important and influential producers of the last 30 years. The list of bands and artists he has worked with in that capacity is long and illustrious: Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Mark Lanegan, Foo Fighters, The Cult, UNKLE, Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, even Hollywood star Russell Crowe. He’s the connective tissue which links so much modern music.

Photo credit: Alex Solca

“»The Archer« is whoever one perceives as their invisible ruler of fate,” explains Goss. “Often, the archer is very visible to those who pay attention. Maybe some even think he is the dictatorial god. Or even a conjured entity. But all can agree that the archer has impeccable skill at hitting the target.”

Masters Of Reality remains in a perpetual evolution. “This album intentionally broke away from the heavier riff rock that we dominated for over three decades,” he says. “The ‘stoner and desert rock’ riffing was a reason for Masters Of Reality to break away on this record and present our blues in a different light for a minute. Blues isn’t a three-chord riff progression. It’s life itself. I can easily provide a thousand heavy riffs at the drop of a dime. But I dare any self-proclaimed heavy riff band to have the balls to throw the curve ball that we’ve thrown with this album.”

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well