Chris Mittelburn played on the unreleased Master album from 1985 (easily Master's best stuff), Shaun Glass played on Terminal Death's “Faces of Death” demo (1985), Troy Dixler sang on Devastation's “A Creation of Ripping Death” demo (1986). Three of the four musicians on this demo had previously played in the aforementioned bands. Sindrome was an all-star team of the Chicago scene. Master are well known, but mainly through their official albums which were released several years later. For some reason, people seem to have forgotten about most of these bands. Death Strike, Master, Terminal Death and Devastation could all be seen as death metal to some extent (albeit with lots of hardcore punk influences). Back in 1985/86 there might have been more proto-death metal bands in Chicago than anywhere else in the world. The Chicago scene should get more credit for the development of early death metal.