Sinister - Hate (1995) Death Metal Review

 The follow-up to 93's Diabolical Summoning, Hate delivers more top-notch 90's brutal death metal.

The cover art is badass. It shows a horned-demon with multiple arms like a Hindu god (e.g. Kali) holding skull with nothing but the spine is attached as if he just performed a Mortal Kombat fatality. The demon stands a top a giant skeleton with a human in its mouth, reminiscent of Lucifer devouring Judas in Dante's Inferno.


The album artwork perfectly encapsulates what the music on this album sounds like. Sick and brutal, heavy and violent. Sinister truly put the "death" in death metal!


"Art of the Damned" is one of the best, it has killer thrashy guitar riffs and sick drumming by Aad Kloosterwaard. I think Mike van Mastrigt's vocals sound better on this album. 


"18th Century Hellfire" has some of my favorite riffage on the album. This is the ideal death metal song!


"To Mega Therion" is an excellent cover of extreme metal-pioneers Celtic Frost. This is great, as good as Obituary's cover of "Circle of the Tyrants."


"The Bloodfeast" has some ultra-heavy palm-muted riffs that bludgeon your senses. 


Best tracks: "Art of the Damned", "To Mega Therion (Celtic Frost Cover)", and "18th Century Hellfire."


Overall Hate is a masterpiece of an album, I slightly prefer Diabolical Summoning, but this has better vocals. Sinister are one of the most underrated death bands. If you want some brutal death metal, you can hardly do better than Sinister's Hate and should pick up Diabolical Summoning at the same time.

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