When there are two Sinister guys and a gal behind a band, without any doubt, one can expect some evil and absolutely nasty death metal, right? Yes, indeed. Actually, here those two guys, Ron van de Polder (guitar, bass) and Aad Kloosterwaard (vocals) are forming members of that Dutch death metal legend. Sinister was disbanded in 2003, and Infinited Hate was the result.

The duo was joined by Rachel Kloosterwaard (now Heyzer, ex-Occult among others), who also did vocals in Sinister for their last two years or so, and on two albums. Aad does effected vocals. No voice sounds like it was coming from a woman. Guttural, low throat vocals, Rachel being more biting, and Add's voice is quite distorted by an effect, sound like rushed jobs. Anyway, Rachel ain't very far from early Chris Barnes (ex-Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under), and saved the day on this one.

But... There's one true evil on this album: A drum machine! Maybe the band were in a hurry to record this album, because I really cannot find any other excuse or even a tad rational reason why they utilized that goddamned racket fucking box. Aad used to play drums in Sinister, so why the hell did he choose that Pandora's box to be included?! The reason was the split with Sinister, after which he lost the fun to drum. But, using a drum machine is never really a good option, not in metal music, even though it's not a rarity in death metal either. Anyway, the bass drum is echoing yet blunt (and gets easily buried under all other noise) and the hi-hat has one bloody annoying sample, and it truly sounds like a sample, not even close to the real thing. The snare, tight and snappy, sounds like the only real element. One thing saves something is that its programming must have been rather laborious; there's at least some of variety in beats. Not everything is well done, though, but yeah, I've heard worse. Still, fuck that fucking hi-hat fucking sample, FUCK!!! It drives me into bad craziness.

Infinited Hate's style was mixing Sinister style evil and oppressing death metal with US brutality of the yore. Unique Sinister style tremolo riffing that sounds discordant yet it's not (I think there's two layered guitar tracks, perhaps), and is melded with more normal-sounding, yet malevolent riffing. There are some catchy moments, but generally these songs tend to bounce like mad at times; likes tornadoes one can't predict where they are going to next. There is no slow moment. And when the guitar sounds kind of muffled, it is not easy to follow to. It needs to be listened closely, because if you don't, you're left with nothing in your hands. And if there's a bass guitar here, I'm not really hearing it! The album sounds more like a demo, to tell the truth; ideas are there, but the execution is rather appalling; like subpar Sinister leftovers. The Kreator cover 'Flag of Hate' suffers from the production, but is a brutal take anyway.

The band changed their name to Weapons To Hunt in 2008, after Rachel had left, and I have to admit I still haven't checked them out. Houwitser and Absurd Universe, though, I have, but I still have more to hunt down. This sounds somewhat similar to Sinister's 'Hate' era of 1995, so if you're looking for something like that and are prepared for aural blasting, in a wrong way, by some crappy drum machine and a demo-level production (so many "why?"s about the production job!), then you should give this one a try, even though I would pick anything by Houwitser and Absurd Universe over this platter. Worst I've heard from Mr. Kloosterwaard , easily.

Rating: 5½ (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Lane
09/09/2020 19:27