Sinister – Legacy Of Ashes

Releasedate: 17-12-2010; Label: Massacre Records
By: Lara Cappelli

Sinister is a Dutch Death Metal band formed in 1988, disbanded in 2004 and reassembled in 2005. “Legacy of Ashes” is their ninth album.

Sinister career is not to consider an homogeneous one, both from a line-up and music point of view. Besides going through several line-up changes, they’re also known to be a leading figures of the Dutch Death Metal scene. Still, their music got recently characterized by several epic intros and arpeggios and some slight more melodic turns. As for “Legacy of Ashes”, epic influences are left to cover only the intro of the album “Hersh of Damnation”. If epic openings were indeed what characterized Sinister past releases the most, this time the band aimed at building an album on strong ground through a steady songwriting. In it, past influences are hearable as well as newest ones; as soon as the intro gives space to the actual songs, the rage that characterized their first albums gets easily spread but often contrasted to several rhythm changes that give the album quite some balance. By doing that Sinister keep far from their music the risk of falling into repetition and make variation the element that gets the album to demand a great deal of attention. What Sinister’s fans might find in “Legacy of Ashes” is a compromise between the band’s past and latest influences that should do enough to convince them.

Line Up:
Aad Kloosterwaard – Vocals
Alex Paul – Guitar
Edwin van den Eeden – Drums
Joost Van De Graaf – Bass

Links:
Sinister MySpace
Sinister Official