This underground label
promote an album that is strongly influenced by the northern black metal with
songs the aren’t so bad, in spite of that inspiration there aren’t so many
flash-backs, sometimes the music lost a bit of tension but it can be accept
and understand in a debut release like that, Battlehorns seem to be one of
those act that aren’t so interested to contaminate their sound and music
with other unusual elements, the production is fair but a bit too sharp to
bring the typical pagan forlorn atmosphere of some historical albums. I have
the impression that they tend to be a in the middle of a cold vision of the
darker side of Black Scandinavian Metal and a the epic ancient feeling of some
well-know bands, but that they prefer to not cross the border and to remain in
the borders of an epic sort of traditional black metal, the execution of the
song sometimes miss some points, their instrumental capacity isn’t at the
top, principally on the drums, but working on the moodish side of their music
there can be something better to express.The thing that lacks that band is a more aggressive drum engine but the
music itself have some good moments, surely looking back to what it has been
done in the past they have a difficult way, let’s hope that Hohenstauten Rec.
keep working and I think that with their sensibility and dedication something
will come out.