Album Review

Sister - Disguised VulturesSister – Disguised Vultures

It has been a solid three years since Sister released their debut album ‘Hated’ on Metal Blade Records and since that time the band have been hard at work touring across mainland Europe and the UK with the likes of Hardcore Superstar, Crashdiet, Fozzy, Wednesday 13 as well as playing the likes of Sonisphere and Bang Your Head festival in mainland Europe.

Now Sister are set to start 2014 in style with the release of their second studio album ‘Disguised Vultures’ and it seems that their time touring with fellow shock punk rocker Wednesday 13 has paid off as both Sister and Wednesday 13 have so much in common from their black and white gothic look, the love of horror films and general spooky things and more importantly the fact that they like to create similar music as ‘Disguised Vultures’ is crammed full of songs that when heard for the first time you wonder if Wednesday 13 is involved in any way.

The album kicks off with ‘My Enemy’ a song which comes in at a ferocious pace for the first 14 seconds before taking a short breather before the band get ready again to unleash some serious noise with riffs coming and going at such a force as the band lay down the punk rock sounds they have mastered over the years.

Next up is ‘Sick’ a song which was originally released as a single towards the end of 2013 to coincide with the Wednesday 13 tour and the song is a big fist pumping punk rock song where you can imagine the bands legion of fans throwing their fists in the air whilst chanting along “sick, sick, sick” when the chorus kicks in.

The album title track ‘Disguised Vultures’ is full of energy and solid instrumental work as the band go all out laying down massive riffs and drum beats whilst front man Jamie screams out “Fire, Fire” over and over again. ‘We Salute ‘Em’ see’s the band turn the volume up an extra notch or two as everything becomes bigger louder and more kick ass whilst also maintaining the melodic pace that the album has kept up until now.

There is enjoyment to be had from pretty much every track on the album for example the explosive start and stop nature of ‘Slay Yourself’ will have you on your feet wanting to cause carnage, the slow paced nature of ‘Naked’ will have you singing along word for word as you easily lap up the words, ‘DMN’ is bound to bring the mosh pit to life at future live shows as the song is massive sounding and full of energy, whilst (Stop The) Revolution’ is easily the stand out track on the album as it runs heavily with gang vocals and generally rocks.

The album closes with ‘Please Kill Me’ the song starts off really mellow with an beautiful guitar intro and from that moment the song really comes to life full of energy and top class instrumental work, as the song progresses it starts to go off track a bit as the vocals dip out and we are treated to a long running guitar piece which runs for pretty much 2minutes solid with underlying chants of “Kill Me” coming and going throughout.

2013 was a fantastic year for Sister and it seems like 2014 is going to be just as good with the release of their second studio album ‘Disguised Vultures’ which is out on Metal Blade Records on the 21st January and if you are a fan of shock rock bands like The Murderdolls, Wednesday 13, The Frankenstein Drag Queens then I am sure that the new offering from Sister will be exactly what you are looking for.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Jamie
Rikki
Tim
Cari
 Track Listing

1. My Enemy
2. Sick
3. Disguised Vultures
4. Arise
5. We Salute ‘Em
6. Slay Yourself
7. Naked
8. DMN
9. (Stop The) Revolution
10. Please Kill Me

 Band Related Links
Sister Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?