I happened to chance upon Fender's Tone Master some time ago (like a decade ago, maybe) & it's perhaps the manufacturer's perfect amp for intense distortion. If you dig up the amp's history, you'd read about a certain Bon Jovi guitarist who clashed head-on with Fender for associating him with this amp He'd like a little respect for such associations because he wasn't formally the amp's ambassador despite having a signature Fender Stratocaster model. This led to the demise of that Fender signature guitar which was a hefty loss in my opinion because he single-highhandedly made the Fender fraternity like a Strat with a humbucker in it. Tragic. I'm with that Bon Jovi guitarist in acknowledging the fact that Fender's Tone Master set itself apart from the glassy-clean domain of Twins & DeVilles in propelling distortion goodness. I certainly wish the Tone Master would be reincarnated one day...
But this 2012, Fender has the Machete to tempt us all. I've not heard it in full bloom because it's still a fresh offering, I'm sure there'll be plenty to refer to in planet You Tube once NAMM's 2012 winter blizzard retreats to other realms. By virtue of this following clip (it's not too fantastic sounding, though), it sounds promising:
