Sinister "Diabolical Summoning" CD

Holy shit! I can't recall many death metal albums that have had this much aggression, great riffs and good songs since Morbid Angel's Covenant or Death's Human. Sinister is a much different beast, but you'll get all the standard ingredients of kick ass death metal (growling vocals, vicious guitars, blasting drums, "evil" lyrics) served up proper and twisted.
Melodies? Fucking forget about it! This takes every Gothenburg band and every mallcore band and shreds them into an irreparable mound of shit. There is nothing on here that can be considered melodic, except for maybe the "emotional" lyrics to "Mystical Illusions," which are far from the norm of death metal, and especially bizarre after hearing Mike belt out hymns about The Ancient Ones and violating angels.
There is still a reasonable amount of the Possessed-worship of their debut, but on here it's much more refined and not nearly as frantic. This does work in Sinister's favor, especially with the leads, which are short but well played. Nope, no Azagthoth extended freak-outs or Schuldiner masterpieces, but more like Deicide's stuff on their debut album. On here it sounds better, though.
"Sadistic Intent" is a bit slower than you'd expect from Sinster, but it speeds up quick. "Magnified Wrath" (fucking cool title!) feels technical at first with a start-stop riff, then goes back into blasting. The title track is simply excellent, and so is "Sense of Demise" with it's slightly slower, yet diabolical verse riff. "Leviathan" goes through a number of time changes (just listen to the "chorus," there's about 3 different riffs for that...crazy) and great riffs. "Desecrated Flesh" is typical Sinister, with some more "atmospheric" riffing that is not far off from Marduk's style. "Tribes of the Moon" is fast, all the way through and really intense. "Mystical Illusions," like I've said, has strange lyrics, but more of the intelligent riffing we know from these guys.
Vader can only WISH to reach this level of excellence. I personally think that this is the magnum opus of brutal death metal. Everything on here is so close to perfect, except maybe the production (yeah, it's not the best), that any fan of old death metal should not be without this, or their first album. From here on out, they'd lose members with each release and consequently, the quality of their music would go down.

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