METALLIAN - Sacred Sin

Darkside - 1993 - Música Alternativa
Eye M God - 1995 - Dinamite
Anguish... I Harvest - 1999 - União Lisboa IV
Translucid Dream Mirror - 2001 - Demolition
Hekatón - The Return To Primordial Chaos - 2003
Grotesque Destructo Art - 2017 - Demolition
Storms Over The Dying World - 2022 - Lusitanian

Members

Vocals

Massacre, Enforce, Undertaker, Disaffected>>JOSÉ COSTA>>Undertaker, Disaffected

Guitar

Thugnor>>Tó Pica>>Thugnor, Anti-Clockwise, Trinta E Um, Ramp - Necrophiliac, Kassefazem>>Rui Dias>>Kassefazem - Extreme Unction>>Tito [Quito Nishal] - Paranormal Waltz, Shivan, Thugnor, Crystal Dragon>>Nuno Gonçalves>>Shivan, Thugnor, Crystal Dragon, Alastor, Cunnilingus, Death Feast - Undertaker, Paranormal Waltz, Crystal Dragon>>Pedro Miguel>>Magnitude 9, Drakkar, Shivan - Shrine, Blasted Mechanism>>Luís Simões>>Blasted Mechanism, The Firstborn, Saturnia - Thugnor, Anti-Clockwise, Ramp>>TÓ PICA>>Anti-Clockwise, Trinta E Um, Ramp - Hang The Traitor>>LUIS COELHO>>Hang The Traitor

Bass

Massacre, Enforce, Undertaker, Paranormal Waltz, Corpus Christii, Masque Of Innocence, Crystal Dragon, Annwn, Eterna Saudade>>JOSÉ COSTA>>Undertaker, Corpus Christii, Masque Of Innocence, Crystal Dragon, Annwn, Eterna Saudade

Drum

Paranóia, Dinosaur, Timeless>>Eduardo "Dico" [Eduardo José Almeida]>>Timeless, Powersource, Lusitan Pride - Disaffected, Decayed>>Joaquim Aires>>Decayed, Angel, The Project Lordship, Before The Rain - Danilo Warick>>Easyway - Grog, Neoplasmah, Nephtys>>Rolando Barros>>Grog, Neoplasmah, Nephtys, Celtic Dance, Ava Inferi, Filii Nigrantium Infernalium, Hordes Of Yore, The Firstborn, Switchtense, The Sorcerer, Di.Soul.Ved, Dead Meat, Scent Of Death, Namek, Innards, Nethermancy - André Silva - Fernando Dantas - My Enchantment, Attick Demons>>RICARDO OLIVEIRA>>My Enchantment, Attick Demons

Keyboard

Carlos Caseiro>>Dark Tales - Arthur Jorge>>Dark Tales, Theriomorphic - Tiago Loureiro

History & Biography

Lisbon, Portugal-based death metal act Sacred Sin has been active from 1991 to 2011 and again from 2013. The band has had a steady list of releases, all through minor labels. The band had not been pure metal and incorporated keyboards and female backing vocals. Members have come and gone. Guitarist Tó Pica left in 1999, returned with the reformation in 2013, left in 2017 and returned again in 2019.

After Promo Tape '91 came a 7" called The Shades Behind. The band had European touring with Malevolent Creation following Eye M God. Mastery Of Holy Imperial Art was a compilation in 2003. The act was billed for Caos Emergente Open Air in 2007 and Barreiro Metal Fest V in 2010. There were appearances at Vagos Metal Fest and Milagre Metaleiro in 2023. The band was booked for Laurus Nobilis Music Fest in 2025.

No one is loyal here and lands in multiple acts simultaneously. The first letters of the first five albums' titles spell 'death.'

Reviews

SACRED SIN - ANGUISH.. I HARVEST - GRIMMDISTRIBUTION
This is such a baffling re-release. Why? Simply stated the band and music have a dearth of interesting music or the ability to sustain the few decent riffs and rhythms they throw at the listener. In other words, this should not have been released in the first place originally in 1999, let alone be picked up, re-packaged, tagged with rehearsal material and shipped out again in 2019. The music is typical Portuguese. It is embarrassingly weak, inconsistent, laden with synthesizers and the vocals are subpar... not just subpar, but also sub-mixed and barely audible (well depends which track is on), which is fine as they are nothing to write home about. Look at the cover. It looks like they aborted the zygote in the nick of time.
Sacred Sin is likely classifiable as black/death metal, but the music is a mishmash of ideas and often not the band's own. Riffs from different albums by different bands can be heard all over this. The wimpy keyboards wash over simplistic riffs that cover the weaker vocals. It is regretful as the band can be heavy and fast with the guitars and bass - no one can hear the drums, so never mind it - but this Sadus-meets-Sadist-meets-Nocturnus stuff is well below average. There are so many better bands out there that one has to ask himself, 'why listen to this?' Astral sounds like the theme music to a TV crime serial for a minute before switching to Dream Theater the next. The best track Ghoul Plagued Darkness has a touch of Sodom in it and a cool guitar solo, but the synthesisers remind us these guys are wussy Portuguese idiots. Profane has a neat touch of Morbid Angel and is brutal, but wait... that’s not the good Morbid Angel. It is the stupid Morbid Angel i.e. Nocturnus. Feathers Black has stronger riffs and likely copying Samael. The Shining Trapezoid follows and is repetitious as the riff is used over and over. Enraptured begins the bonus track section of the CD, which is a rehearsal demo from 1997, and has the shedding guitarist try his hand at Classical music. It is all too thin and treble to mean anything. Likely the word ‘bonus’ is the wrong choice here anyway. You have guessed it by now of course, but the sound quality here is even worse than the album's proper tracks.
Anguish... I Harvest is probably an appropriate title for this disc and only of interest either to trivia fans to play a game of 'where did I hear that riff first?' or anyone who originally bought this album, enjoyed it (friends and family) and wants to get the additional material now. They even have a baby crying somewhere on the album in order to annoy the listener even more. The CD will not make a return appearance at Metallian Towers. – Ali “The Metallian”

Interviews

Sacred Sin