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SINISTER

The Carnage Ending

(Massacre)

Reviewed by : Greg Pratt
Rating : 9.0

Man, I love Netherlands death metallers SINISTER. Not just for their quirks (the dude who sings now used to be their drummer! They once had a female vocalist, and they're a brutal death metal band!), but because of their relentless adherence to straight-ahead death metal. They've released, at last count, 600 full-lengths, every one sounds identical, and every one is a completely great listening experience. It's all about the mids, it's all about the galloping riffs and beats, it's all about death metal, '91 style. Here, 'Oath Of Rebirth' gets slow and sludgey and dirty with some excellent, unique guitar work; it totally rules. Then the rest of the album does the '91 stomp; it totally rules. Sure, there are some death metal bands that are just generic and boring, but somehow Sinister always manage to stay a feather away from that category and, improbably, launch themselves directly into the upper tier of death with every single album. Victory.