Conquering The Black Horde (Calamity Productions)

 Warfield is a new Black Metal band from Mexico formed in 2008 by Hellfire (vocals, guitar), Molosh (guitar) and Infernal (drums), these three blackened souls (who are also involved in several well known bands such Disgorge (Mex), Foeticide, Hacavitz, Profanator, Impiety (Sgp) among many others) deliver at “Conquering The Black Horde”, the band’s first full length and second release after their demo 2008, a powerful, strident and hellish Black Metal opus highly influenced by the traditional Satanic Black Metal sound of bands such Dark Funeral (mainly), Marduk and Mayhem. The chaotic and cyclic atmospheres created by strident and hellish riffs are the album’s trademark, even when this album also features some minor mid paced dense and occultist passages in the obscurest vein of Mayhem’s darker origins, the Dark Funeral-like ascending-descending riffs reign over this entire opus, which mixed with a varied and consistently well executed thrashing drum work, creates devastating passages of cathartic violence. The ruthless vocalizations of Hellfire contribute here with a viciously heretic feeling, completely ad-hoc with the entire album cruel atmospheres and concept.  Even when this work is clearly unoriginal, the high quality music delivered at “Conquering The Black Horde” will certainly catch the attention of the traditional sounding Black Metal audience, the accurate conjunction of velocity, obscurity and heaviness makes of this album a really enjoyable slab of Black Fucking Metal played in the way it should… By the way, this version of “Conquering The Black Horde” (there’s another album version, with different cover art released under Black Saw Records) contains a Sepultura cover as a bonus track, “Troops Of Doom” closes this killer work with an unhealthy dose of thrashing madness  poisoned by the unmistakable evil vibe of Black Metal… So if you are looking form some quality new Black Metal exponent, this album will certainly not disappoint you… (AP)