Sinner Angel ‎"Sinister Decálogo" CD

Limited to 500. Includes 8-page booklet and OBI.

Release by our label-partner GrimmDistribution (Belarus) - new album "Sinister Decálogo" of Colombian melodic death/black/power metal band SinnerAngel is out on June 25th, 2017!

We've never had so much room for power metal on this webzine, I admit it, possibly because it's not always a truly extreme genre and we don't get that many review requests. It's also been a long time since I reviewed something likewise but fear not, here I am, bringing you "Sinister Decálogo" by SinnerAngel, at last. Medellín trio, as I came to know from surfing the web, was reborn in 2014 after a five years experience ended in 2009, today consists of bass player Ángel Valencia, guitarist William Florez and lead singer Gustavo Echavarría and — back when the album was recorded, until last year — had Gustavo Ladino as drummer. What really surprised me was (and still is) that "Sinister Decálogo" appears to be the first and only record released by the act. You might be thinking why that surprised me. Well, the album is wonderful: it's an aggressive and shameless debut, charismatic, bearing its own style and the band's own signature. It's a trvely rude power metal bomb dressed in black-death metal, sounding somewhere between Emperor and Children Of Bodom, with some swedishness in terms of death melodies. Moreover, there's something in "Zeon" which makes me think of Haggard, and it definitely is something that, added to the rest (meaning ideas, production and musicians' performances — top ones!), kept me always pressing play again and again on my stereo player. So, it might have taken a decade and some line-up changes for the band to make its official debut in the world's music panorama, but SinnerAngel did it with a certain style for sure; and with some sort of shameless boldness, I'd also say. "Sinister Decálogo"? It's a surprisingly appreciated add to any fan of those genre's collection. Let's just hope, now, for the trio not needing another ten years to give us some more…

Well this is interesting. A mix of melodic death, black and power metal? Why not right? SinnerAngel hails from Colombia and were formed in 2004 but it isn’t until now they are releasing their debut album Sinister Decálogo. The lyrics are in Spanish and while my Spanish is not really great I do get they are singing about the dark sides of humanity. With each member of the band contributing to the music and taking in elements from basically every single genre there is a lot of differences between the songs. That’s could be SinnerAngels strength but it becomes their weakness. While I do like some of the songs I often find the music to be all over the place. There is a riff or two too many here for my taste on every song (almost Dragonforce like) and I personally can say I am not a fan of this mash-up of genres. There are some songs I can dig to like Vestidos De Luto, where it kind of works for me but usually this falls flat for my liking. Here is nothing pulling me back once I am done with the album, it goes in one ear and out the other. Nice try SinnerAngel but this doesn’t appeal to me nor is anything I will remember.

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