Sentinel Beast - CD

This album sees the return of original vocalist Mike, also the original Sinister frontman, and his demonic growl is a joy to hear when combined with the violent and shitty death metal the band has to offer. The band still combines fast blasting sections with heavy mid-tempo thundering stomping, while fluid death metal riffing and ripping guitar leads put a blood red cherry on top of this throbbing extreme music cake.

The band reach deep into their bag of influences to pull out elements of prime Cannibal Corpse, Deicide and (not too surprisingly) early Sinister to create a solid slice of death metal that sounds very familiar, but with enough of a face of its own to come out thoroughly convincing. Well, convinced I am, and I'll be damned if other old school brutal death bangers don't find something of value here as well.