I always say better be the hunter than the hunted, better hold the weapon that being the one threatened by it. However, you can also be wise enough to stand against the weapon that it out to claim your life but I will leave the strategies to whoever that needs it, certainly not you guys reading this review. Observing WEAPONS TO HUNT, once called INFINITE HATE, from the Netherlands, is the answer for ex and current members of bands on how you can do a reunion without calling it one. This formation lead by the trio Adrie Kloosterwaard (Vocals and leader of SINISTER), Ron Van De Polder (ex-SINISTER and one of its founding members) and Bastiaan Brusssaar (ex-SINISTER), which also attended under the banner of INFINITE HATE, recruited two of SINISTER's ex-members,Paul Beltman & Erwin Harreman to come join the deathly feast. Unlike the earlier unruly Death Metal released through the INFINITE HATE consortium, WEAPONS TO HUNT set their musical approach way back in the late 80s and early 90s with punching bestial Thrash Metal following early DESTRUCTION and DEMOLITION HAMMER along rough Death Metal cravings in the vein of early SINISTER (Think about the first two albums), early DEATH, SOLSTICE and POSSESSED. On paper, especially with such a fine arsenal of musicians that once performed together as one and such classic influences, the band's debut album "Blessed In Sin", via the local Dutch Vic Records, should have blasted through my wall right from the first chord, however, it didn't happened after all leaving with no more than a decent offering to satisfy my hunger for something deadly and old school.

I think that the main issue I had, and still have, with "Blessed In Sin" is that fact that it turned out to be damn too monotone. Certainly that the band swarmed with hustled riffing, some were a bit off the chip of the old school insanity, devouring rapid drumming, deathly rhythms and rudimentary vocals, but in the long run, and boy it was long with this album because it barely stopped from doing so, I imagined that it would be different and more electrifying. The malevolence of WEAPONS TO HUNT is based on the notion of to be always on the attack. However, the minus was that their continued assault was almost without any marvellous or that worthy stop signs with layouts of something a bit more than average on top of their rhythms. Sure that there were a few melodic displays and some nasty crazy ass soloing in the vein of SLAYER, but those were oh so very short something like short burst of rapid fire thus making it rather meaningless. SINISTER might have it as well on both their old and current material, but at least SINISTER shared its demonic character throughout their career. In the case of this here band, the music was seemed to be processed in a tad rougher manner. That same approach led to exceedingly aggressive shifts between tempos, rhythms and riffs thus causing some of them to sound out of place. I didn't expect that from these veterans, epically not the riff machine man like Ron Van De Polder. Regrettably, this album proves that having a wide arsenal of riffs don't mean that you can score the full payload, the matter of connecting them together is the real thing.

Frankly I enjoyed the energies of this band, several of those speedy rhythms, which also indicated the supremacy of the drummer Paul Beltman that never seemed to lift the foot from the gas paddle of the bass drum, also I can't say that I didn't took pride of some of the riffs I listened too. Probably that is reason I liked "False Positive System" and the constructive hazard of "The Smell of Victory". "Strike Face" and "Blessed In Sin" had slightly more class than the rest of the average tracklist. What is funny is that Adrie Kloosterwaard sounded even better than his vocal role in SINISTER and despondently this album didn't reach the same rating. In general, "Blessed In Sin" feels like a blind man running amok towards something without noticing that he might hit a wall. There is that great talent smothered all over but not the matching results.