Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Location: Unknown
Status: Split‑up
Formed: Unknown
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Unsigned/Independent
Themes: Decay, Death, Hermitry
Affiliation: Black Plague Circle

Master’s Voice is one of the most enigmatic and short‑lived entities to emerge from the Black Plague Circle, and also one of the Circle’s earliest expressions of its now‑defining aesthetic: spiritual rot, isolation, and the slow collapse of the self. While many BPC projects channel hatred, occultism, or urban nihilism, Master’s Voice was the Circle’s hermit‑prophet—a voice speaking from a cave, from a grave, from the threshold between life and death.

Its music is raw, but not in the chaotic or violent sense. Instead, Master’s Voice is withered, ashen, and hollow, built on:

• slow, decaying riffs
• vocals that sound like a dying breath
• minimal percussion
• an atmosphere of absolute solitude

This is black metal stripped of aggression and left only with the sound of a hermit’s mind collapsing under its own weight.

The project’s thematic triad—decay, death, hermitry—is not metaphorical. Every release feels like a document of spiritual starvation, a chronicle of a life lived in isolation, rotting from the inside.

Master’s Voice dissolved quietly, leaving behind a small but potent body of work that has become a cult artifact among followers of the Circle.

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Discography

Demo

• Untitled (2014)
  A primitive, skeletal beginning—already steeped in solitude and decay.

Split

• Master’s Voice / Folteraar (2014)
  A significant release: pairing a Bosnian hermit‑entity with one of the Netherlands’ most hostile raw black metal projects. A meeting of two different but spiritually aligned forms of rot.

Demo

• A Hermit’s Longing for Dreadful Wisdom (2015)
  The project’s defining statement.
  A meditation on isolation, spiritual hunger, and the desire for knowledge that destroys rather than enlightens.

Demo

• A Hermit Is Dead (2017)
  The final breath.
  A document of collapse—quiet, suffocating, and terminal.

Live album

• Live at Invicta Requiem Mass III (2018)
  A rare live manifestation, capturing the project’s bleak aura in a ritual setting.

Compilation appearance

• “Silence the Blasphemous Chanting”
  Invicta Requiem Mass IV (2018, Harvest of Death; vinyl, limited to 100 copies)

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Members

No official lineup was ever disclosed.
As with many early BPC projects, anonymity is part of the project’s identity.

However, stylistic fingerprints strongly suggest involvement from the same core individuals behind:

• Nigrum Ignis Circuli
• Night’s Majesty
• Cave Ritual
• Vrač
• Obskuritatem (early era)

Master’s Voice is one of the Circle’s proto‑forms, a precursor to the more refined spiritual decay that would later define the Sarajevo underground.

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Position within the Black Plague Circle

Master’s Voice occupies a unique role:

• It is not urban like Izrod
• Not folkloric like Obskuritatem
• Not cosmic like Sulphuric Night
• Not ritualistic like Cave Ritual

Instead, it is the Circle’s ascetic, the hermit in the mountains, the prophet of rot.

It represents:

• isolation as a spiritual path
• decay as revelation
• death as wisdom

A quiet but essential thread in the Circle’s early evolution.