Track listing :
1. In The Neverending Kingdom Of War
2. The Obscure Rider Forgotten By Moonlight
3. Conquerors Of The Armageddon
4. Honour The Blood Of Legions

Total playing time : 19:11

Totally uninspired and repetitive mid-tempo keyboard-driven Black Metal from France.

Released in 1999, it seems that this MCD wants to sum up all the cliché to be found in this type of Black Metal : mainly, the melodies have been stolen from the old Greek stage (Varathron, Rotting Christ), mixed with Bal Sagoth, a band I’ve always hated for their stupid pseudo-sympho music. About the sound, the guitars (2 !) and bass are lost in the mix, as the keyboards and the drums are too much in front. Drum breaks are childish and the voice is the typical Black Metal one, while being not powerful and not very good.

The only topic of the lyrics is war, honour and victory. How original for a band that shares nazi interests, but is too shy to put a swastika in their booklet ? Only the typical runes (copied on a Burzum shirt ?) are too be found on the CD, in order that their little nazi buddies know they’re part of the “movement”, while allowing them to sell their CD through big mail-order list… How brave.

I have to add that those guys are from Grenoble, a city in the south of France, where people are proud to shout “White power” in front of an excellent Japanese band (Abigail) and to spit at the singers (Maniac from Mayhem). Pathetic. Sometimes I understand my lack of patriotic enthusiasm when surrounded by such morons…

Not the worst CD I ever own, but one of them.

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