Super awesome, mega rad Death Metal band from Holland. Famous among fans of this underground genre for such albums as "Cross the
Stix", "
Diabolical Summonings", and their most successful "Hate" which was realeased at the
hight of the Death Metal movement in 1995. Also worth mentioning is "Bastard Saints" an exeptionally well done EP. Their sound was characterized by a mostly "old school" American Death sound despite their geographic origins: Ripping fast, complicated guitar
riffing and tempo changes, lead by
blast beats and rolling double kicks from the drums and punctuated by
rasping, gutteral, but amazingly decipherable vocals. Like many Metal bands
Sinister was plauged with member changes nearly every album. Sinister is still around today, lead by founding member
Aad Kloosterwaard, but is still most memorable for their "Hate" album era when the sound was "just right" whereas much of the Death Metal created after this period was/is charaterized by bands simply trying to
outdo each other with progressively more and more down-tuned guitars and vocals etc. Thats not to say there wasnt/are some kick-ass Death metal bands after that period but you definitly have to filter through alot of crap to find it.
Holy crap!
Sinister freakin
shreds ass! Their album "Hate" influenced musicians clear accross the
globe. How come no one creates music like THIS any more?!!