### Sin: Audio summoned flesh

#### 18/02/09 || HailandKill

For the diehard fans of this Filipino quintet, “Audio Summoned Flesh” has become their home-grown “Master of Puppets.” The album lies close to the heart and can never be spared enough praise. They love it to bits and watch in awed silence whenever Sin play shows in a local shit hole.

But it’s no use hyping something if there’s no substance behind it. What does Sin have to offer apart from the other bands in today’s reviews? Let it be a small amount of freshness and little else besides. Still, Sin are held in very high-esteem by the Philippines’ fledgling community of metalheads, simply because there isn’t much else to choose from. The Sin boys are known for peddling a brand of thrashy cybernetic deathcore that’s accessible but still treads on the extreme shit. Opener “Amorphosis” is pretty average and it isn’t until the hammering title track that you’re most likely to get hooked on them. The true foundation of the Sin sound are these humongous, Godzilla-sized riffs axe-men Gilchrist Tan and Rommel Vasquez churn out repetitively. Apart from an occasional epic solo, trembling, quaking, chugging, Meshuggah-esque melodies dominate most of the album. The only exception is the hypnotic instrumental “Deathillion II”.

Engineered to the point of flawlessness (and why is this album so goddamn loud?), the other members aren’t slouches when it comes to adding their own ingredients into the aural broth. In real life, vocalist Charles Daza is a hirsute giant (his bearded mugshot made the cover of a local music rag once) known for sullenly lurking around venues before gigs and wearing camo pants on stage. The man gives the impression of having descended from a Saskwatch and just might evolve into a Wookie. As for his vocals, it’s far from original, but boy oh boy, does the mofo like to holler his ass off.

Let’s just say the remaining members are good-looking because describing them further will eat into the content of this review. That said, all the songs inside “Audio Summoned Flesh” are hard as granite and have the intricacy of a car engine. The album’s finest cuts are “Pilgrimage”, “Eternal Bateria”, “Burning Hour”, “Psychometric Equation”, and “Regeneration”. There. That’s 3/4ths of the 60-minute opus right thar.

It also has a skull on the cover. Big deal.

7 saskwatches out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2008
- Label: Tower Of Doom Records
- Website: Sin MySpace
- Band
- Charles Daza: vocals
- Rommel Vasquez: guitars
- Gilchrist Tan: guitars
- Alvin Qinones: bass
- Macoy Manuel: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Amorphosis
- 02. Audio Summoned Flesh
- 03. Equilibrium Supremacy
- 04. Pilgrimage
- 05. Deathillion 1
- 06. Deathillion 2
- 07. Eternal Bateria
- 08. Burning Hour
- 09. Psychometric Equation
- 10. Regeneration