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After the fall of Thrash Metal idols in the early 90’s, California seemed to lack something to chew on. Death Metal in the US got big in Florida and New York but California was left for a while out of the game.

With Death Metal getting big again lately, combos have started to reappear nationwide and Sinister Sadist from Mira Loma, East from LA, is trying to get a piece of the cake.

The band delivers fierce Death Metal with hints of Thrash Metal here and there. The vocals are mainly Death Metal though they are perfectly audible and almost decipherable.

I very much enjoy the sound of the guitars on this recording. How would I voice it? Old-school modernity? I know this seems an awkward combination of words but that’s all I can come up with.
To some extent they’re very much Slayer’ish and to another extent they remind of Death Metal classics like Cynic (not the latest shit they just released...) or Atheist. Technical and brutal, but yet that's not just it... they carry emotions like Gorguts or Voivod would.
Soli have this silky touch almost Heavy Metal in essence, something you could have heard in the early 90's from bands like Nocturnus.

The songs are catchy as hell and you’ll find yourself wondering where time flew by as the seven tracks end up. All in all a very solid 'demo’ release that would augur some nice forthcoming releases (a full-length maybe?).

Ever being the grumpy old metalhead I did become, I might just point out a few things however that kind of bugged me. Well one thing for sure: drums. At times, it feels like the drummer is not on par with the other musicians. Blasts just get fucked up (you'll excuse my French on this one) from time to time and those drums sound like banging on wet cardboards. This flaw is not 'consistent' however and I’m more inclined to believe that it’s just the drummer fucking up on studio drums he does not well full know or something similar.

This does not ruin the musical experience at all and I still maintain this is a solid release. And a few mistakes here and there still show that this is a young band that has yet to keep on learning. Hell, some classic extreme metal acts have released shit worse than this (listen to the drums on Goatlord for a good laugh for instance...).

Give Sinister Sadist a try and visit their Myspace page!