ehh kind of, though even on In the Sign of Evil there were a lot of lyrical themes about war, ie Burst Command Till War (as mentioned above) though it's obviously more the musical style that influenced the genre more than the themes
I thought ppl were lying but ig not. I unsubbed bc he dies that but whines if he's "supporting corrupt bands" then fucking talks about how good those bands are
Sri Lanka and India has a particular scene. Pure chaotic mixing war, noise and power electronics. Lot of bands there mix this and it's making that scene so unique.
@@jakestatefarm2470 yes. See Konflict, Genocide Shrine, Tetragrammacide. All too extreme and very intense stuff. Kolkata has a very extreme and particular scene too.
@@deathdoomed yeah I never heard of genocide shrine I’ll check them out, dakini, tsalal, and harsh immolation are intense too. Honestly warnoise is the most extreme style of music for me. Regular harsh noise/harsh noise wall kind off becomes relaxing after a while but warnoise has all the noise but they are constantly beating you with raw drums and wild guitar feedback and speed. Only style that can compete is the free death/blasting brutal death scene like ecenathrakth. Fucking awesome stuff
That PunkRockMBA dig was brutal! Weirdly enough, I think I commented on your video the last time you mentioned him and said that I found it sussy that he seems to only listen to music popular with teenage girls, and… well, it was more prescient than I even thought 😬
i just watched an interview w him and sanguisugabogg vocalist and he definitely knows what he’s talking about music wise. But his videos are catered to like gen z normies? i think he’s definitely just pandering
@@Sergio-nb4hjthat's where he lost me forever. 😂 the bitching about the lyrics when he listens to bands that write about the same shit. But dating someone that young is worse. So I won't ever go back.
I prefer to call it "bestial black metal", rather than "war metal", because it's a subgenre of black metal with an extra adjective, just like brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal. "War metal" makes it sound like it's exclusively about war thematically, which is not the case always, but "bestial" describes its overall sound more accurately.
I love OUGH Metal, it's oddly fun to listen to. Bestial Warlust is also a solid "classic" band. Some of my modern picks not mentioned in the video would be Profane Order, Teitanblood, Primitive Warfare, Aparthiva Raktadhara, and Brahmastrika
@@MRSludgedude They're more Bestial Black/ Death, perfectly in line with what War Metal is since it's the crossover. Also, Teitanblood is the phoenix from the ashes of Proclamation and some of the other predecessors from the Spain/ Spanish War Metal scene.
I personally think that early Nunslaughter demos have a great influence on war metal and extreme metal as a whole. Its just so harsh, raw, and evil for its time and i fuckin love it.
Just a side note tho, Blasphemy also listened to a lot of punk, Also the Classics like Motörhead and Venom, saying their main influences might’ve been Kreator Endless Pain and Sodoms EP release is just as equivalent as the first bands I mentioned. They also listened to Destruction which happens to be a band not many bring up for big inspiration of first wave black metal. They were big thrash fans.
Black Winds was a punk rocker that got into the early Black and Death underground bands. Read their old interviews from early 90's. Dude has had an Exploited-style mohawked skull tatt on his chest since before Blasphemy. The other members were more thrashers that wanted go in a more extreme direction than their previous bands like Witches Hammer. As for Destruction, I would say their most important contribution was their fashion sense. Sarcofago copied it but were way crazier sounding, then Holocausto I'm pretty sure coined the term "War Metal" it's on the back of their "Campo de Exterminio" album from '87.
Alright, I'm gonna be 'that guy' here, but in my opinion, grindcore has a bigger part in the evolution of war/bestial/whatever metal than is given here. Blasphemy owed as much to old Napalm Death and Agathocles as they did to Sarcofago and early Sodom. If someone had given me a tape with Blasphemy's music back in the day, without titles or other info, I would not have thought of it as black metal, rather that they sounded like Assück's deadbeat nephew. EDIT: I did not know that about The Punk Rock MBA. Explains a lot in hindsight.
Yeah, I was listening to Revenge the first time today and they really sound like 50% (Gore)Grind; having those pitch shifted gurgle vocals, too, very much like early Carcass. If I just heard it without knowing what its "supposed to be", I would have called it Grind, I think.
On the random side note Archgoat performs perfectly live and defiantly matches up with their recordings. I am 34 so defiantly giving my age away when I say I am happy to say I got see this band live way back in 2009 and the show was freaking worth it despite the venue having no air conditioning..
the Indian and Sri Lankan noise/war scene is so good, i initially got into that stuff with Tetragammacide and ended up falling down the rabbit hole with groups like Kapala and Genocide Shrines. best extreme metal i've ever heard in my life, hands down. Biological Warfare from Korea and Sewerhermit from Japan are also phenomenal, the latter leaning more into the grind side of things with very unique vocals that sort of remind me of Phyllomedusa.
I've listened to enough Konflict at this point to actually start to hear the riffs. Also, that new Profane Order album has been one of my favorite releases of the year so far.
Blasphemy, Damaar, Prehistoric War Cult and Profane Order are my favourites right now out of the whole war metal scene. Archgoat doesn't really do anything for me, but I respect their savagery! ÖUGH! 🐐🤘
Yeah Archgoat isn't very interesting to me. Hades Archer, Weregoat, Blasphemy, Death Worship, Proclamation Slaughtbbath are favorites that come to mind
@@wheelsofmercury Another one I just heard a few months ago is Goatsmegma from Estonia. Demonic Goat Smegma Eating Ritual. Its one I definitely will acquire soon.
There is some evolution in the Revenge catalogue if you listen closely: early stuff is more akin to 90s grind (bleeding over from Axis of Advance), then they went through a bit of a gasmask metal era, and then honed in on the most straight ahead, pure brutality ever made.. Hail J Read!!
What I love about Revenge specifically is that they have an element of grindcore to their style of war metal. It adds a level of intensity that I don't really get from many other bands. Vermin Womb, Pissgrave, and the Middle Eastern bands that Wyattxhim mentioned are the few that come close.
slight correction: india/sri lanka is considered south asia, south east east means countries like singapore and phillipines Deiphago is one of those war metal bands from south east asia, specifically phillipines great video btw
The way I see it since Conqueror you can't make out the riffs anymore, to the point where I would question if it's still metal. The link with noise and extreme electronics is very obvious to me, modern War metal is certainly way closer to the sound and presentation of acts like Genocide Organ than it is to Venom or other extreme metal.
War Metal steals whatever it wants to create its sound. Black, Death, Thrash, Grindcore, it's all good. Just whatever you need to make your agro-ass music. My personal stance on Bestial Black Metal: I think it's a subgenre of War Metal that kind of refines its sound a bit. It's less of an agro melting pot of genres+anger; and instead create a more massive, almost cavernous, sound. Hellfire Deathcult comes to mind. I don't feel like they're yelling at people, people are too small to bother acknowledging. They're more like a storm that passes over everything and rains destruction. This is just a personal interpretation. In conversation I'd treat them as synonymous to each other because that's how most people treat them. Also, why would a subgenre of War Metal be called "Black Metal"? Because F- you, War Metal.
Mad respect for the C.U.M. "Death to Pigs" LP. I've got it in my collestion as well but I also own the tape with the same name but with different tracks released back in the end of the nineties.
The first band I heard who took war metal into something a bit less one-dimensional was Diocletian. When I first listened to Gesundrian by them, it sounded just as punishing as any other war metal album, but with much more variety and - at least for this style of metal - clarity to the production. I do like what bands like Blasphemy and Revenge do, but it's SO relentless that there's not much room for variation.
Some lesser known acts fellow war metal fans might enjoy(some are war noise): Crucifixion Ritual, Concrete Winds, Bloodclipse, Supremative, Astaroth(TX), Spiritual Desecration, Pyromancer, Wolves of Perdition, Malacatus, Complot, Black Imperium, & Genocidal Rites
I also would've mentioned sacrementary abolishment/axis of advance since they're kind of an odball with their sound. Also I think the last revenge release shows some progression with there being more punk influences and the second blasphemy album doesn't sound the same as the first. But good takes nonetheless.
Ive read a plenty of times war metal genre tags on grindcore music but i never got the pleasure to dig further into what it seemed to me as a rabbit hole. Now im dying for listening all his albums and performances if there are any out there, not expecting to be on yt but equally as curious
I don’t know a whole lot about war metal but I’ve listened to some before like Revenge, and Blasphemy. I didn’t get too much into it, but this was a few years back. Personally, I’m really into black metal.. but more like epic/pagan/medieval bm. That’s just me though. I’ll probably check it out again. Good video, thank you sir.
war metal is actually the first genre i got into with metal. i listened to super aggressive rap before that and i absolutely loved war metal when i first heard it
I came across a band by the name of Vargr a while back, and I'm not sure if they can be attributed to war metal at all, but their album Wehrmacht Satanas is by far the most abrasive think I've ever heard
This is the Russian one apparently, not to be confused with Steeve Hurdle's (RIP) band or the band from the US or the one from Sweden or the one-man project also from Sweden all of the same name
I believe in two non mutually exclusive iterations of war metal First came first wave black metal (Parabellum 1984 -Madre Muerte) Then we got both "Ultra metal" along with the original war metal umbrella (Sarcofago, early Sepultura, Vulcano, Hadez, Mystifier first demo, Sodom until '87) Finally, we get to early '90s with Ross-Bay-Cult Bestial War metal (Blasphemy, Beherit, KAPALA, Tetra etc.) GoatPenis overlapped into both iterations, helping influence the sound of the second.
Beherit didn't make "The Oath of Black Blood". It was done buy their record company by combing two of their demos that the band didn't want to use. The record company did that because the band wasted their budget. Laiho changed to Ambient after moving to other city and didn't want to look for new band members.
So I'm not really seeing any mention of Diocletian anywhere (aside from the pic of amongst the flames in the video) and I just wanna say their album gesundrian is some 🔥🔥🔥 if you like war metal
This is kind of related to Revenge, but I got banned from r/Metal in 2015 for saying Sarcofago is not black metal and that Angelcorpse is war metal. I got massively downvoted for that comment. The comment thread was about black/blackened metal in general. It was even said by the mod who banned me "Certain bands have a general consensus by us (out of quotes, but WHO IS US??) of what their genre is. You cannot come into this sub and say that bands are what they aren't, that's called trolling." He even tried to argue with me that "war metal isn't a real genre." Given that Pete Helmkamp was in Revenge for a time, it was wild to me that people would be so angry when I say Angelcorpse is war metal. Exterminate has HEAVY war metal vibes, from lyrics to the imagery (the album art is literally demons and tanks). Even Kerasphorus had a tinge of war metal to it: the relentless blastbeats and dissonant riffs are proof of it. Helmkamps vocals are bland and monotone but that's his style and it's still pretty evil. Times HAVE changed though. War metal is now a genre that is well accepted in r/Metal, but I am still banned from the subreddit lol
I prefer the term Bestial Black Metal, because it's probably the least human sounding genre of extreme metal. All those demonic, anthropomorphic beasts on the album covers look exactly like what I imagine the musicians to look like lol
I'm from Vancouver hung out with the guys from blasphemy for years especially blackwinds my buddy was his roommate I know Ryan from conqueror well too cool guys back in the day
@@mflambert war metal is not called war metal cause of the lyrics, it's a separate genre. Think high tempo black/death metal, less tremolo and more power chords, chaotic guitar solos etc.
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The irony that Sodoms albums that influenced war metal are not the albums obsessed with war lol.
Lmao, true, I didn't even think about that!
"Burst Command Till War"...
ehh kind of, though even on In the Sign of Evil there were a lot of lyrical themes about war, ie Burst Command Till War (as mentioned above) though it's obviously more the musical style that influenced the genre more than the themes
@@dichloro_arsine542 I do agree
It was all Satan back then. Good times.
War Metal scratches the itch for me that most death metal simply cannot. It's the shit Orcs listen to while they dead lift in the depths of Mordor.
Spot on description
There should be a tolkien themed war metal band with lyrics from the orc perspective.
YES (chad face meme)
@@minimaluser2132 they're trying.
@@minimaluser2132 uruks are literally described as being Almost as strong as a man you got your facts wrong
Holy shit the Punk Rock MBA dating thing totally caught me off guard, cant tell if im pissing myself from laughing or from being surprised rn
I thought ppl were lying but ig not. I unsubbed bc he dies that but whines if he's "supporting corrupt bands" then fucking talks about how good those bands are
yeah, Finn's been taking nonstop Ls for awhile now.
Pretty common for commies to like them young
@@stevencooper3202 L comment
@@Grim_reviews you were actually subbed to finn?
I didn't expect a Kendrick level diss on Finn Mckennty but I'm here for it.
Sri Lanka and India has a particular scene. Pure chaotic mixing war, noise and power electronics. Lot of bands there mix this and it's making that scene so unique.
Yeah they call that style war noise. Honestly one of the most abrasive genres of music
@@jakestatefarm2470 yes. See Konflict, Genocide Shrine, Tetragrammacide. All too extreme and very intense stuff.
Kolkata has a very extreme and particular scene too.
@@deathdoomed yeah I never heard of genocide shrine I’ll check them out, dakini, tsalal, and harsh immolation are intense too. Honestly warnoise is the most extreme style of music for me. Regular harsh noise/harsh noise wall kind off becomes relaxing after a while but warnoise has all the noise but they are constantly beating you with raw drums and wild guitar feedback and speed. Only style that can compete is the free death/blasting brutal death scene like ecenathrakth. Fucking awesome stuff
@@deathdoomed Not really war metal, but Heathen beast from Kolkata are great too. Gutslit, Godless and Inner Sanctum are incredibly good too.
The Sri Lanka/India scene has like 5 bands. The rest just say they’re from India to seem esoteric.
mother of god that tetragrammacide
Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix is excellence.
JEEZY THE SNOWMAN
That PunkRockMBA dig was brutal! Weirdly enough, I think I commented on your video the last time you mentioned him and said that I found it sussy that he seems to only listen to music popular with teenage girls, and… well, it was more prescient than I even thought 😬
i just watched an interview w him and sanguisugabogg vocalist and he definitely knows what he’s talking about music wise. But his videos are catered to like gen z normies? i think he’s definitely just pandering
@@black_pig_iron For sure. He's said even that he regrets doing the slam video bc it attracted people he perceives to be harder to market to.
🤣🤣🤣 the Most Bald Assaulter is a scenester turd and a diaper sniper.
@@Sergio-nb4hjthat's where he lost me forever. 😂 the bitching about the lyrics when he listens to bands that write about the same shit.
But dating someone that young is worse. So I won't ever go back.
India and Sri-Lanka being middle eastern? wut? This is some maximum American geography lore.
Conan, is a very medieval sounding war metal doom band. No flutes or acoustics, just downright going to war with rocks, sticks and steel
I prefer to call it "bestial black metal", rather than "war metal", because it's a subgenre of black metal with an extra adjective, just like brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal. "War metal" makes it sound like it's exclusively about war thematically, which is not the case always, but "bestial" describes its overall sound more accurately.
Uh huh I agree
Pretty spot on if you ask me
I’m not sure why but I like to call it terror metal instead, or perhaps it’s evolving to it. Whatever we can call it, it’s all good
"war metal" sounds edgy
It's literally black/death metal
i personally think it is a legit genre and i love it
Regardless of what you think: it is made up.
Honestly the kolkata inner order is the best of the best for modern war metal, Indian metal rules
Check out Genocide Shrines. They’re from Sri Lanka.
If you have a punk rock mba you shouldn't date someone who doesn't even have a punk rock high school diploma
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Why not😊
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Damaar was my first foray into war metal and black metal. It was a great introductory band
I am not really into War Metal but that Pseudogod album is absolutely fantastic.
I love OUGH Metal, it's oddly fun to listen to.
Bestial Warlust is also a solid "classic" band. Some of my modern picks not mentioned in the video would be Profane Order, Teitanblood, Primitive Warfare, Aparthiva Raktadhara, and Brahmastrika
Teitanblood! Love those guys
Bestial warlust is awsome
Primitive Warfare has one of the most insane drummers, and teitanblood is god
Love your picks. Teitanblood can't even be categorized as anything, it is a supernatural experience of it's own. A maddening twist of extreme genres.
Profane Order is killer
Teitanblood are my fav war metal act by far, I hope they release their new album soon. Also Revenge is pretty sick, Archgoat as well.
Teitanblood rips hellyeah
Teitanblood is so good!
That's more occult metal like portal .
@@MRSludgedude what
@@MRSludgedude They're more Bestial Black/ Death, perfectly in line with what War Metal is since it's the crossover. Also, Teitanblood is the phoenix from the ashes of Proclamation and some of the other predecessors from the Spain/ Spanish War Metal scene.
My personal favorite war metal band is Black Witchery. They’re savage and raw, and god damn do I love their sound.
Black Witchery RIPS! OUGH!!!
I personally think that early Nunslaughter demos have a great influence on war metal and extreme metal as a whole. Its just so harsh, raw, and evil for its time and i fuckin love it.
Just a side note tho, Blasphemy also listened to a lot of punk, Also the Classics like Motörhead and Venom, saying their main influences might’ve been Kreator Endless Pain and Sodoms EP release is just as equivalent as the first bands I mentioned. They also listened to Destruction which happens to be a band not many bring up for big inspiration of first wave black metal. They were big thrash fans.
Black Winds was a punk rocker that got into the early Black and Death underground bands. Read their old interviews from early 90's. Dude has had an Exploited-style mohawked skull tatt on his chest since before Blasphemy. The other members were more thrashers that wanted go in a more extreme direction than their previous bands like Witches Hammer. As for Destruction, I would say their most important contribution was their fashion sense. Sarcofago copied it but were way crazier sounding, then Holocausto I'm pretty sure coined the term "War Metal" it's on the back of their "Campo de Exterminio" album from '87.
@@andrewjackson2843 everyone who knows blasphemy knows the bands from Brazil. No need to point out the obvious.
@@user-Cosmicplayhouse_ Each and every single one, huh? I've encountered several over the years that didn't.
Alright, I'm gonna be 'that guy' here, but in my opinion, grindcore has a bigger part in the evolution of war/bestial/whatever metal than is given here. Blasphemy owed as much to old Napalm Death and Agathocles as they did to Sarcofago and early Sodom. If someone had given me a tape with Blasphemy's music back in the day, without titles or other info, I would not have thought of it as black metal, rather that they sounded like Assück's deadbeat nephew.
EDIT: I did not know that about The Punk Rock MBA. Explains a lot in hindsight.
I know people who think of War Metal as just being blackened grindcore, which I get.
Yeah, I was listening to Revenge the first time today and they really sound like 50% (Gore)Grind; having those pitch shifted gurgle vocals, too, very much like early Carcass.
If I just heard it without knowing what its "supposed to be", I would have called it Grind, I think.
Think we’re mostly on the same boat with Revenge being close to grindcore but longer songs
On the random side note Archgoat performs perfectly live and defiantly matches up with their recordings. I am 34 so defiantly giving my age away when I say I am happy to say I got see this band live way back in 2009 and the show was freaking worth it despite the venue having no air conditioning..
YES I've been hoping for this video for so long. I'd LOVE to hear you explain Peste Noire/Famine in general.
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French hicks playing polka
I always considered Watchmaker war metal to my ears. I loved them and they seemed to disappear without trace.
the Indian and Sri Lankan noise/war scene is so good, i initially got into that stuff with Tetragammacide and ended up falling down the rabbit hole with groups like Kapala and Genocide Shrines. best extreme metal i've ever heard in my life, hands down. Biological Warfare from Korea and Sewerhermit from Japan are also phenomenal, the latter leaning more into the grind side of things with very unique vocals that sort of remind me of Phyllomedusa.
can you suggest some bands
Definitely one of the earlier bands worth mentioning is Bestial Warlust, post-Corpse Molestation and pre-Destroyer 666.
I've listened to enough Konflict at this point to actually start to hear the riffs. Also, that new Profane Order album has been one of my favorite releases of the year so far.
1000% agreed on Profane Order!
They have riffs?
You left out Black Witchery, an awesome U.S. war metal band👍
Catasexual Urge Motivation in the background hell yeah 🤝🤝🤘
The way metal and metalcore keep chasing heaviness reminds me of the constant arms race to make the hottest pepper.
Or the strongest strain of Cannabis ie. Dutch Treat 35%+ THC
Beherit is one of my favourite bands 👏
Wyatt is talking about war metal fucking awesome my day is made
When you started making these types of videos I knew this one would eventually make my day. So good, Wyatt always hitting us with the bangers
Blasphemy, Damaar, Prehistoric War Cult and Profane Order are my favourites right now out of the whole war metal scene. Archgoat doesn't really do anything for me, but I respect their savagery! ÖUGH! 🐐🤘
Profane Order rules, that album from this year is insane!
@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic OH YEAH, DUDE! YOU KNOW IT! 🤘
Yeah Archgoat isn't very interesting to me. Hades Archer, Weregoat, Blasphemy, Death Worship, Proclamation Slaughtbbath are favorites that come to mind
@@johnathonmckenzie7148 Huh! I'll check some of these bands out, as the only one I know is Blasphemy.
@@wheelsofmercury Another one I just heard a few months ago is Goatsmegma from Estonia. Demonic Goat Smegma Eating Ritual. Its one I definitely will acquire soon.
Have Blasphemy discography for a long time now. Great band!!! Recommended for all extreme metal fans.
Your T-shirt. I new that guy. He was funny as hell. Crazy noise shit. R.I.P
personally i just like to call war metal "Deathened Black Metal"
Would be great explaning Gnaw Their Tongues as well
There is some evolution in the Revenge catalogue if you listen closely: early stuff is more akin to 90s grind (bleeding over from Axis of Advance), then they went through a bit of a gasmask metal era, and then honed in on the most straight ahead, pure brutality ever made.. Hail J Read!!
Their last album was great
As a huge revenge fan, I appreciate this video
🤘
Fuck yeah.
Damn right!!!!!
Same
What I love about Revenge specifically is that they have an element of grindcore to their style of war metal. It adds a level of intensity that I don't really get from many other bands. Vermin Womb, Pissgrave, and the Middle Eastern bands that Wyattxhim mentioned are the few that come close.
I'm not the biggest fan of War metal, but Antichrist Siege Machine is just amazing. They have those sunglasses also 😄
Thanks for another great video, I discovered tons of awesome bands thanks to you!
Sextrash-Sexual Carnage is also a notable release for the Brazilian death/thrash scene at the time
slight correction: india/sri lanka is considered south asia, south east east means countries like singapore and phillipines
Deiphago is one of those war metal bands from south east asia, specifically phillipines
great video btw
Clicking the new Wyattxhim warmetal video and getting an add for the upcoming Sabaton tour. Oh the irony.
Algorithms are chasing us!
Izedis would have loved seeing you wearing our band's shirt.
R.I.P.
Black and white album cover with red logo is by far my favorite genre.
The way I see it since Conqueror you can't make out the riffs anymore, to the point where I would question if it's still metal. The link with noise and extreme electronics is very obvious to me, modern War metal is certainly way closer to the sound and presentation of acts like Genocide Organ than it is to Venom or other extreme metal.
I didn’t know I was expecting this video. War Metal is my favorite genre! 😝
Really like your views always on point, I’m not a big metal connoisseur but I learn from you!!!👍🏻
You forgot to mention Death Worship. That is some of the nastiest war metal I've heard in a while. I fucking love it!
I think Profane Order is the best example nowadays
War Metal steals whatever it wants to create its sound. Black, Death, Thrash, Grindcore, it's all good. Just whatever you need to make your agro-ass music.
My personal stance on Bestial Black Metal: I think it's a subgenre of War Metal that kind of refines its sound a bit. It's less of an agro melting pot of genres+anger; and instead create a more massive, almost cavernous, sound. Hellfire Deathcult comes to mind. I don't feel like they're yelling at people, people are too small to bother acknowledging. They're more like a storm that passes over everything and rains destruction.
This is just a personal interpretation. In conversation I'd treat them as synonymous to each other because that's how most people treat them. Also, why would a subgenre of War Metal be called "Black Metal"? Because F- you, War Metal.
for me, war metal feels like powerviolence on steroids mixed with bullets
that’s what i’ve been thinking and i’m loving the fuck out of it
This explains so much about PRMBA
Mad respect for the C.U.M. "Death to Pigs" LP. I've got it in my collestion as well but I also own the tape with the same name but with different tracks released back in the end of the nineties.
Catasexual rules
I don't listen to too much war metal, but I do enjoy stuff like Antichrist War Machine, Konflict and Kapala
Now I have to check out Tetragrammacide immediately.
Blasphemy, Conqueror and Konflict are the most illegal sounding music I have in my arsenal.
The first band I heard who took war metal into something a bit less one-dimensional was Diocletian. When I first listened to Gesundrian by them, it sounded just as punishing as any other war metal album, but with much more variety and - at least for this style of metal - clarity to the production. I do like what bands like Blasphemy and Revenge do, but it's SO relentless that there's not much room for variation.
Some lesser known acts fellow war metal fans might enjoy(some are war noise): Crucifixion Ritual, Concrete Winds, Bloodclipse, Supremative, Astaroth(TX), Spiritual Desecration, Pyromancer, Wolves of Perdition, Malacatus, Complot, Black Imperium, & Genocidal Rites
I also would've mentioned sacrementary abolishment/axis of advance since they're kind of an odball with their sound. Also I think the last revenge release shows some progression with there being more punk influences and the second blasphemy album doesn't sound the same as the first. But good takes nonetheless.
Axis o advance is top tier stuff, they blow Revenge out of the water.
Ive read a plenty of times war metal genre tags on grindcore music but i never got the pleasure to dig further into what it seemed to me as a rabbit hole.
Now im dying for listening all his albums and performances if there are any out there, not expecting to be on yt but equally as curious
OK, Tetragrammacide is epic
Incinerators of the Moral Matrix (or whatever that album is called) is an absolutely vicious album
I don’t know a whole lot about war metal but I’ve listened to some before like Revenge, and Blasphemy. I didn’t get too much into it, but this was a few years back. Personally, I’m really into black metal.. but more like epic/pagan/medieval bm. That’s just me though. I’ll probably check it out again. Good video, thank you sir.
There's some pretty good, and even intense, symphonic black metal for sure.
war metal is actually the first genre i got into with metal. i listened to super aggressive rap before that and i absolutely loved war metal when i first heard it
Should have mentioned the kick/snare/cymbal syncopated blast beat that so many of these bands use. To me, it’s one of the most common characteristics.
Hammer Blast.
conqueror is so damn catchy lol
I came across a band by the name of Vargr a while back, and I'm not sure if they can be attributed to war metal at all, but their album Wehrmacht Satanas is by far the most abrasive think I've ever heard
This is the Russian one apparently, not to be confused with Steeve Hurdle's (RIP) band or the band from the US or the one from Sweden or the one-man project also from Sweden all of the same name
I believe in two non mutually exclusive iterations of war metal
First came first wave black metal (Parabellum 1984 -Madre Muerte)
Then we got both "Ultra metal" along with the original war metal umbrella (Sarcofago, early Sepultura, Vulcano, Hadez, Mystifier first demo, Sodom until '87)
Finally, we get to early '90s with Ross-Bay-Cult Bestial War metal (Blasphemy, Beherit, KAPALA, Tetra etc.)
GoatPenis overlapped into both iterations, helping influence the sound of the second.
Omg I just noticed the Enbilulugugal shirt in this video. Thanks for introducing me to them
Beherit didn't make "The Oath of Black Blood". It was done buy their record company by combing two of their demos that the band didn't want to use. The record company did that because the band wasted their budget. Laiho changed to Ambient after moving to other city and didn't want to look for new band members.
And after all these (30+) years they will play live in Japan next year? Weird but true. Two sets, metal and techno.
@@prowlingfrost5588 NHV played a set of electronic as Beherit a couple years ago too. You can find it on youtube, in fact.
07:06 was absolutely brutal ☠️
Can you please make a video about Slam Metal? Im looking for some good recommendations and you always provide great info about bands in the process.
So I'm not really seeing any mention of Diocletian anywhere (aside from the pic of amongst the flames in the video) and I just wanna say their album gesundrian is some 🔥🔥🔥 if you like war metal
Wait, was Finn really 35 when his wife was 17? That’s damning.
Barely Illegal😂
BEAST-EEE-AL. Other that that petty annoyance I greatly appreciate this video an your true knowledge of the music and bands.
BEST-EE-AL
Bestial Metal can mix lot of extreme music style. Very great video, man! Regards!
This is kind of related to Revenge, but I got banned from r/Metal in 2015 for saying Sarcofago is not black metal and that Angelcorpse is war metal. I got massively downvoted for that comment. The comment thread was about black/blackened metal in general. It was even said by the mod who banned me "Certain bands have a general consensus by us (out of quotes, but WHO IS US??) of what their genre is. You cannot come into this sub and say that bands are what they aren't, that's called trolling." He even tried to argue with me that "war metal isn't a real genre."
Given that Pete Helmkamp was in Revenge for a time, it was wild to me that people would be so angry when I say Angelcorpse is war metal. Exterminate has HEAVY war metal vibes, from lyrics to the imagery (the album art is literally demons and tanks). Even Kerasphorus had a tinge of war metal to it: the relentless blastbeats and dissonant riffs are proof of it. Helmkamps vocals are bland and monotone but that's his style and it's still pretty evil.
Times HAVE changed though. War metal is now a genre that is well accepted in r/Metal, but I am still banned from the subreddit lol
I want that Enbilulugugal shirt so bad
DUDE FINN WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TRUE
Big fan of the indian war metal scene
the punk rock nba read i SCREAMED
I love ur vids bro fr it’s ur passion and it gives off the same energy so it’s rlly interesting
I don't have much to add but that Kreator album art is killer.
Was waiting for ya to mention early Cobalt. Anyway the vids are great dude. Keep em comin
Hey Wyatt. Just dropping in here to say, nice shirt. Dustin was a pretty good friend of mine. Cheers
Sepultura lol along with Nirvana of all groups influenced my metal guitar playing and listening the most
some times we disagree but you did a fine job here sir. well done.
Beherit
Black witchery
Blasphemy
Early Impaled Nazarene
Archgoat
Conqueror
Revenge
Complot
Primitive warfare
Caveman cult
Proclamation
Bestial warlust
All good shit.
I prefer the term Bestial Black Metal, because it's probably the least human sounding genre of extreme metal.
All those demonic, anthropomorphic beasts on the album covers look exactly like what I imagine the musicians to look like lol
I'm from Vancouver hung out with the guys from blasphemy for years especially blackwinds my buddy was his roommate I know Ryan from conqueror well too cool guys back in the day
OUGH!!!!! 🤘🤘
(also nice Enbilulugugal shirt, RIC/ RIP Dustin)
Enbilulugugal now there's an esoteric band
lmaoo lots of respect for that Finn McKenty callout
It does explain some of her interesting videos
Oath Violator by Revenge takes me there every tiem
id say war has big dbeat elements often too (blackened crust etc)
Great video as always, the only thing I would question about it though is calling India and Sri Lanka Middle Eastern.
Yeah it’s a mistake that a handful of people have rightful pointed out
thanks for introducing me to this genre man gonna check this out
WAR METAL IS A GENRE OF MY FAVORITE. Lets see what you have to say on this one!
K I know you said you didn't even come close to mentioning but not even a hat tip to 1914 or cannonfever... bruh
@@mflambert Because they're Melodic Black Metal, not War Metal/ Bestial Black Metal.
1914 isn't war metal lmfao
@@mflambert ha=)))?
@@mflambert war metal is not called war metal cause of the lyrics, it's a separate genre. Think high tempo black/death metal, less tremolo and more power chords, chaotic guitar solos etc.