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THE FIRST AND FINAL SIN

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THESE ARE NOT MY PERSONAL REVIEWS- 'CAUSE I AM TOO BIG OF A FAN TO BE SUBJECTIVE.I FOUND THESE REVIEWS AND A TON MORE ON THE WEB AND I POSTED THEM HERE-THE REVIEW ON THE SECOND DECADE IS FROM THE MICHIGAN DAILY

THE END OF SANCTUARY review

Hardly finished its round as a musician of PRIMAL FEAR , we are entitled to our quasi annual delivery of SINNER .

With the listening of " The End Of Sanctuary ", which jumps immediately to the ears, it is the musical evolution, and there, one can say that the fact of having attended Ralph Sheppard is surely not foreign with that. In testifies this " Signed, Sealed & endiabl Delivered".

The production is terrible and Chechmate sings better than ever, with this requiring how it manages to combine such vocal with its lines of low Maideniesque.

Its accomplices are not remains about it, and on certain pieces, all push the " warlike choruses " bringing back for us to best the years on Germanic metal.

The duels of guitars are terrible so much the two musicians at this station compete of virtuosity.

It remains us more than to wish that SINNER visit us finally for some concerts, in particular in province where a great number of fans wishes to take part in a great Heavy festival.

If you like this musical style and that you have only one purchase to make this month, "The End Of Sanctuary", you get urgently will not regret it.

JUDGEMENT DAY review

Since more than ten years Sinner is a trademark for brilliant heavy rock. This is also true for the band`s latest output "Judgement Day". While other bands, who play this style of music, fail to combine the melodic element with heavyness and thus sound like heavy pop bands, Sinner are definitely rooted in the metal genre, but are nevertheless able to create great melodies. My favourite tracks on "Judgement Day" are "White Lightning" and "School of hard knocks", but also the other nine tracks were really able to convince me. Thus my final judgement is that this is a "Buy or die"-release for all fans of melodic heavy rock.

NATURE OF EVIL REVIEW

Fresh off the heals of that Primal Fear record, Mat Sinner returns for the metal kill. Sinner offers up a true 80s metal sounding record for sure. Still they ad in some cool keys of today and a touch of the 70s on "Devils River." Its very metal. Anyone that dug Judas Priest and bands of that ilk will get to put their fangs into some pure true metal. This German band has paid some dues. "The Sun Goes Down" is a Phil Lynott song from early rockers Thin Lizzy. "The Nature Of Evil" is a march oldie like rocker. "Rising" was more of a keyboard with guitars intro to the darker "Walk On The Dark Side." If you like traditional heavy metal? Then become a Sinner.

THE SECOND DECADE review

Sinner extends its longevity into the new century by releasing a "best of" album entitled simply, "The Second Decade." What? You have never heard of this band? Well, you and many others are forgiven as Sinner has generally been huge in Europe and its native Germany (yes the land where David Hasslehoff is a superstar pop singer).

With Sinner's sound that harkens to the glory days of Iron Maiden, it's no surprise that this band hasn't seen too much attention from rap/metal hungry mainstream America.

Lack of notoriety aside, this "best of" collection is actually quite good. There's plenty of unabashed guitar heroics going on in the soloing and twin guitar riffing that, by as early as the second spin of this disc, may send you into uncontrolled spasms of air guitar. The bass and drums rhythm section rocks in a simple but solid manner, allowing for the listener's attention to always remain firmly with the massive sounding guitars. Bassist/singer Mat Sinner, the man responsible for this group's namesake, tops all of this off with his throaty yet soulful metal voice - a voice that is reminiscent of a less operatic Bruce Dickinson, if you will.

"Devil's River" and "Used To The Truth" are two of many great tracks of this collection that showcase the group at its head banging best. "Devil's River" for instance, with its massive manly riffs and lyrics that warn of bad things about the "Devil's River" is just an ideal guilty pleasure track to enjoy in today's '80s metal bashing music world.

Another plus about this CD is its neat packaging. The CD is in a completely shiny silver digipak jewel case - undoubtedly to demonstrate this group's commitment to metal.

Certainly this is not an album that will change your life or rank with The Beatles's all white album, but you won't need to look any further than Sinner's "The Second Decade" if you are in the mood for some really good mid '80s style Metal.


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