Total War (EP)
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1997 |
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7th |
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17:05 |
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Total War is the EP from the Swedish black metal band War . It was released in 1997 on Necropolis Records . In 1999 the material was re-released on We Are… Total War along with seven songs from the album We Are War ; For legal reasons, the band used the name Total War on this record.
Track list
- Satan - 08:04 (text and music: IT)
- I Am Elite - 16:10 (Text: IT; Music: Blackmoon)
- Total War - 05:19 (Text: IT; Music: Blackmoon, IT)
- The Sons of War - 06:33 (Text and music: IT)
- Revenge - 07:51 (Text: All; Music: Blackmoon, Mikael Hedlund)
- Reapers of Satan - 08:08 (text and music: IT)
- Satan's Millennium - 06:36 (Text: Blackmoon; Music: Blackmoon, Peter Tägtgren)
Music style and lyrics
War plays "the most primitive Black Metal with lyrics about Satan and war". The songs are catchy because of the " punk structure and attitude that is behind 'Total War' and which at times is reminiscent of various crust massacres". According to Christian Dornbusch and Hans-Peter Killguss, "the satanically disguised war and 'total annihilation' seem to originate more from the attempt to violate all moral conventions with an anti-bourgeois gesture" [sic!]. The lyrics to I Am Elite , written by IT , contain some racist verses; IT is partly of Native American descent, though , and Blackmoon said he was behind everything that was said in that song; This song is about Christianity against the satanic side. Because of the racist language, he declared that he was not a racist himself, he hated everyone regardless of race. According to Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard , I Am Elite is not “Nazi filth”, but “the tasteless joke of totally drunk people”.
reception
Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard described Total War as “proof of one's own loud mouth […]. The self-proclaimed 'True Satanist Horde' rattles through seven songs that are unparalleled in terms of brutality and simple penetration, give a shit about guest singers and keyboard bubblers and still somehow get stuck in the ear. "The release is a" must buy for everyone. " Roughly serious black metal collection makes it worth a story with the band for the next issue ”. Mühlmann described I Am Elite as a “rifle-volley-like breaker”. It is "[b] itter" for all black metal bands that with Total War "one of the most brutal, fucked-up genre releases does not come from a 'dedicated' group, but from a schnapps-mood project". The rock-hard magazine put the album on the list of "250 Black Metal Albums You Should Know". The lyrics caused controversy.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Under the Sign of the Black Mark . The second generation of black metal. In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 83 .
- ↑ a b c Jan Jaedike: War . Total war. In: Rock Hard . No. 130 ( rockhard.de [accessed April 22, 2013]).
- ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 130 .
- ↑ Q&A. (No longer available online.) 8thsin, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on April 22, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Marty: War - Interview . In: Worm Gear . No. 7 ( wormgearzine.com [accessed April 22, 2013]).
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard . No. 269 , October 2009, p. 75 .
