I know that it’s a bit too late to review that band but I was listening that incredible opus of death, destruction and hate after the weak Marduk and Dark Funeral last albums and it came natural in my mind to compare those albums with the strength of that apocalyptic storm of evilness. The nihilistic, hellish form of black metal played by that Swedish band is a fist in the face of the actual weakness of the Swedish black metal scene, a good listen to that re-release of two past cd and a mini-cd is enough to realize what Arhiman e Co. and Marduk have lost through the years. In the War’s creation there’s still the flame of the primordial diabolical hate, an opus of total misanthropic feelings. The recording is what I think to be the perfect one, harsh, aggressive and massive without the almost "plastic" mood of the last Dark Funeral’s "Diabolus..." and too moderate sound of Marduk’s "La Grande Danse Macabre".
Listening to those demonic thunders I can hear a sort of accelerated version of the Von’s "Satanic Blood" and this is probably because the ex-Dark Funeral guitarist and former member "Blackmoon" is part of the music and if it isn’t enough the other involved guys are It of Abruptum and All of Ophtalamia There’s a killer grinding devastation and the overall drummer performance is awesome, another heartless sword in the hand of the enemy of mankind. Here become the siege, some very moderate death and thrash elements are transformed and almost hidden by the total-holocaust black metal mood of the music...in an eternal way to the cemetery gates!