WARMASTER - Promo 2012 (Self released)
There are few bands known as
Warmaster, the most interesting is surely the US War Master, I think… but here’s
a Dutch band, which decided to name themselves after the classic Bolt Thrower
album. I have here only a short Promo CD from 2012 and honestly, I have not
heard of this band until I received this small gift from a friend… but after
giving some listens to this promotional recording, I know that I need to keep
my eyes open for those Dutch basterds!
I am not sure what was the
number of copies, which Warmaster released of this Promo CD, I also am not sure
whether these songs were recorded during the same session as their versions
from the second album “The End of Humanity”. The band did try to find a label
to release their second CD with this promo and they did succeed, although I am
not sure whether the choice for Dead Beat Media was good at all, if I never
heard of this album / band before and it’s rather difficult to find it. Anyways,
this Promo CD offers three songs: “Deadly Artillery”, “Nuclear Warfare” and “Death
Factory” and it’s really cool old school death metal, I tell ya! Sure,
Warmaster doesn’t create anything new and unbelievably amazing; they’re just
another solid and worthy death metal band. But I do enjoy these songs a lot. I like
the riffs, the brutal atmosphere… it’s simply very well performed and composed
death metal influenced by such bands as Bolt Thrower (of course!), Asphyx,
Autopsy, Obituary, Grave and some newer bands like Paganizer. So, you can
imagine that Warmaster prefers mid paced crunchy, heavy and brutal riffs, sick
atmosphere and sometimes they even put more doomy passage, to nail the listener
to the ground even more mercilessly. Yeah… This is well known recipe, but once
more it works very well. And some of you can moan on lack of originality or that
you heard it so many times before, I don’t care at all. Warmaster is really
cool, so I am definitely gonna try to find their both albums.
Final rate: 75/100
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