Sinister Slaughter

• Artist: Macabre
• Rating:
• Release Date: August 03, 1993
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Macabre quickly increased its cult following with Sinister Slaughter by bringing an element of thematic engagement to otherwise above-average death metal. This entertaining source of engagement comes via the song titles and the accompanying lyrics; much along the lines of Cannibal Corpse, Pungent Stench, and Anal Cunt, Macabre writes genuinely perverse songs about the sort of taboo subject matter that is appalling yet undoubtedly intriguing. In the case of this album, the Chicago trio bases each of its songs on a different psychopath; for example, the opening track, "Night Stalker," is based on Richard Ramirez, just as the next track, "The Ted Bundy Show," is based on Ted Bundy. Sure, this is a juvenile concept, but when as seemingly tongue-in-cheek and as well-executed as this, it becomes a unique and quite charismatic attribute that helps to differentiate this album from the glut of other death metal releases churned out by globally reaching independent death metal labels in the mid-'90s. (The album cover's satirical take on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, picturing each of the psychos, only helps.) So even if the music isn't necessarily as timeless or influential as something like Entombed's Left Hand Path or Napalm Death's Scum, and even if Macabre isn't as downright serious as a group like Morbid Angel or Deicide, in the end, this album has become somewhat of a cult classic, right alongside other perverse classics like Cannibal Corpse's Tomb of the Mutilated and Brujeria's Matando Gueros. [Nuclear Blast re-released this album in 2000, adding the four-song EP Behind the Wall of Sleep.] ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Night Stalker: Richard Ramirez	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Ted Bundy Song	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Sniper in the Sky: Charles Whitman	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Montreal Massacre	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Zodiac: Identity Unknown	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
What the Hell Did You Do?: James Edward Pough	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Boston Strangler: Albert de Salvo	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Mary Bell/Mary Bell [With Reprise]	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Killing Spree: Patrick Sherrill	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Is It Soup Yet?: Daniel Rakowitz	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
White Hen Decapitator: Michael Bethke	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?!)	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Gacy's Lot: John Wayne Gacy	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
There Was a Young Man Who Blew up a Plane: Jack Gilbert Graham	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Vampire of Dusseldorf: Peter Kurtin	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Shotgun Peterson: Christopher Peterson	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
What's That Smell?: Jeffrey Dahmer	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre
Edmond Kemper Had a Horrible Temper: Edmond Kemper	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
What the Heck, Richard Speck (8 Nurses You Wrecked): Richard Speck	Corporate Death, Nefarious	Macabre
Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish in the Sea: Albert Fish	Nefarious, Corporate Death	Macabre

Credits

Nefarious (Arranger), Nefarious (Vocals), Jeff Cline (Mixing), Jeff Cline (Synclavier Programming), Dan Schneider (Cover Design), Mary Bell (Arranger), Jeff Cline (Producer), Markus Staiger (Executive Producer), Corporate Death (Guitar), Jeff Cline (Engineer), Jeff Cline (Arranger), Dennis the Menace (Drums), Nefarious (Guitar (Acoustic)), Corporate Death (Vocals), Macabre (Producer), Nefarious (Guitar (Bass)), Tony Iovino (Guitar), Macabre (Arranger), Jeff Cline (Sound Effects), Nefarious (Bass), John Martin (?), Jeff Cline (Piano)

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