Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sinister/Years Of Massacre/Massacre Records/2012 Digital Compilation Review


  Sinister  are  a  band  from  the  Netherlands  that  has  been  featured  before  in  this  zine  with  a  musical  style  that  I  would  describe  as  being  heavy  and  brutal  sounding  old  school  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2012  digital  compilation  album  "Years  Of  Massacre"  which  was  released  by  Massacre  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  a  good  amount  of  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  being thrown  into t he  music,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars  and  at  times  they  have  a v ery  powerful  sound  to them.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  old  school  style  death  metal  riffs  that  are  very  heavy  and  brutal  sounding  with  a  good  amount  of  dark  sounding  melodies  being  thrown  into  the  riffing  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  clean  playing,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  early  90's  sounding  death  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads.

  Vocals  are  mostly  deep  sounding  death  metal  growls  with  some  spoken  word  parts  being  utilized  at  times,  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark,  violent  and  blasphemous  themes,  as  for  the  production  it h as  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  professional  sound  where  you  can hear  all  of t he  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  this  recording.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  a  very  great  sounding  compilation  from  Sinister  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this band,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Summit Of  Sacrifice"  "The  Sin  Of  Sodomy" "Transylvania(The  City  Of  The  Damned"  and  "The  Grey  Massacre".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.


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