I haven't really explored this genre. The only band I listen to is Nuclear Desecration. So if there are any bands similar to them to start off with, let me know. And also, good Morbid Angel/Slayer-type solos would be a plus. Thanks.

Try this thread on war metal.
viewtopic.php?t=76728&highlight=war

BOLTFUCKINGTHROWER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eShSOlhX9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgkAWDt ... ure=relmfu

JUNGLE FUCKING ROT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmUM5ec0 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSwbMUFI8A

HAIL OF FUCKING BULLETS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r78Ry3o2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKY-P8w ... re=related

God Dethroned has a WWI concept album, good shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klnma7-ZPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7g2K9P ... re=related

Sabaton is also pretty kick ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFO0Xo9TZ54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IaKb6D ... ure=relmfu

Warbringer:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP6iMZ1Pic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJqFe36g ... ure=relmfu


Enjoy~

Youve misunderstood what he means by war metal bro. Those bands are just metal bands with lyrics about war. the op means bestial black metal. As for where to start with that stuff:
Blasphemy are like the Death of that scene. Start there. The associated bands Revenge and Conqueror are also good. The 2 war metal titans of finland, archgoat and beherit are also good starters. Only other introductory band i can think of is Goatpenis

ah.
sorry bout that man hahaha

seconding Goatpenis

Holocausto, playing 'war metal' in 1987 and possible use that label first. Very strong influence to Blasphemy and Beherit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsFoyVzcvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xSOE-dbAxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-RrKqAhLJs

Ok, you did not specify if the bands lyrics had to be about war, as so called War Metal is also often called Bestial Black Metal, or Black/Death or whatever. So I am gonna separate the rec's into two categorey's: bands with lyrics about war, and bands that sound like War Metal bands but have lyrics about Satan and what not.

Bands with lyrics about War:

Goatpenis(3rding that rec): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoPRa_c ... re=related

Iconoclast Contra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9IadODEcdc

Zygoatsis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcqFk9HYvI0

Amuptator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJn9dt9IToY

Niden Div. 187: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTytc1OugM

Conqueror: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaIM45GZn0A

Truppensturm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFP19FUZMAA

Bands with the same sound as the bands above, but with lyrics about other stuff(Satan, Gore, etc.)

Archgoat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtmrSa6iSs

Morbosidad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tGrutLTv-w

Antichrist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbOkR668YxU

Impious Baptism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD4ypCx5miU

Bestial Warlust(they also have songs about War): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYjn32J ... re=related

Profanatica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntetQnpwPmU

Blasphemophager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXlEn4bPL0

Pseudogod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0je1stuSM

Forgot Amputator. Seconding that, they're fucking dope. Theyve also got maybe a inch of thrash in ther sound that just gives it that extra edge

Conqueror/Revenge.

Axis Of Advance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAfjOUQCAT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3ecNZS_RY

Teitenblood play war-metal on a somewhat grandiose scale;

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Teitanblood/20242
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsej3rEceQ

Definitely give American 2 piece band, Cobalt a go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQwqTzFpW-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz8vzizq ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnHjKGcEfa4

Definitely also check out the pre-AoA band, Sacramentary Abolishment. Their album River of Corticone is awesome raging war metal with occasional doomy sections.

seconding Conqueror/Revenge ,Axis of Advance and adding early Beherit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UwLSXrTiZg
and Blasphemy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6e0Nrlr_jg

I think Blasphemophager is a good place to start, as their full lengths are really well produced.

Infernal War fit your request perfectly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNeBK1YZ_g4

Just think of the three bs. Blasphemy, Beherit and Bestial Warlust. thats a good place to start like many have said.

I've always wondered if Von count - I seem to keep them in my head in the same general notion as Blasphemy, but they don't seem to be considered war metal by many.

I suppose it's because they have a similar "bestial" feel, what with the growled vocals and completely primitive style they play. Musically, they're barely anything like what's considered war metal though.

On the sillier side of things, there's Sadistik Execution:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0d-K46iSM
"We Are Death...Fukk You!!"

Blasphemy-Nocturnal Slayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XSLd37UInM

Impiety-Sunrise Defloration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS9kurar0Dg

Proclamation-Angel of Four winds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpnWWk-2-zQ

Bestial Raids-Desolation Temple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbmXm3HvFtQ

Most of the bands I listed lack the grindish element of bands such as Revenge and Black Witchery, war metal usually has a massive sense of chaos songwriting in terms of just randomly violent riffs but from the examples I've listed bands that include discernable riffs that make them just as brutal if not more brutal than the Blasphemy clones. Also I second Sadistik Exekution even though they are more thrash.

Rites Of Thy Degringolade - Totality (2001)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCPEi8qXF7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2biz23O1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmLq3LvAUrU

top-notch riffs

Katharsis, Gyibaaw, Trupensturm, Blasphemy - I think those are "war metal". Maybe. Hopefully. Sure.

If you're just getting into the genre, then Sarcófago's album INRI is pretty obvious.

I've always associated a good number of Marduk pieces with this thing you people call War Metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn5XF821rgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-jkkwQmxJE

As a beggining band id reccomend sarcofago who were an early influence on the scene. As far as othwr bands i wpuld reccomend checking out: bestial warlust,proclamation,diocletion and bestial warlust. Hope thats helpful.

I always imagined "war metal" was more like Progetto:ChaosGoat.666, having a literally war/apocalypse-oriented (as opposed to just angry-sounding) atmosphere. On the song "Extirpation of Life . . .", for example, there is a whole minute of warning sirens and explosions, and then the black metal kicks in. Or "Deus Nobiscum", which has people screaming, and some kind of crashing sound.

Besides the potential genre discussion there, that also counts as a recommendation, especially if the OP doesn't mind sound samples. They only have (I think) one metal song on MySpace right now ("I Morti Cammineranno Sulla Terra") , but it's a good example of what's going on.

Blasphemy and Beherit since they started the thing.
Bolt Thrower are better than both of them so, so check them out,
even though they are not chaos black metal.

Amon Amarths Victorious March comes to mind.

When listening to this I always in vision a brutish hoard of vikings going on an epic march to war across cold nordic terrain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1doMZrq10

oh yeah, and you should also check Satanic War Master out, he even gets a bit NSBM at some points.

Where's the Nunslaughter at, guys? I've always considered them to be "Bestial", as it were. More Thrash that Death/Black but still: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtkAOXWBGE

Also, Bestial Mockery anyone? More of the same, really: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_uRjFbeqi0

Hmm, I'll throw Hellacaust in here. Not really your typical, chaos ridden BM, but definitely some areas featuring that dirty, suffocating, "bestial" style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klv8iP0Bz_U

Seconding Cobalt. Great fucking band. Check out either of their newest full lengths. I still spin Gin on a fairly regular basis. Good stuff.

Cobalt never did a war metal release, and neither did Bolt Thrower.

What is "War Metal"?

Ok, then I apologetically retract the Cobalt suggestion and add that the parameters of "war metal" seem utterly frail, subjective, and defined completely according to the individual's taste--flimsy even by metal genre and subgenre standards.

Not entirely. There's usually a certain set of features that make something war metal, including:

Downtuned grinding guitars.
Old school death/black metal influences apparent in the music.
Almost zero melodic content and the complete absence of anything that's meant to be soft and pleasing to the ear, e.g. clean/acoustic guitar breaks.
Consistently high tempos and blast beats till the end of days.
Very rough and abrasive production.
And that little touch of underground satan cult 666 war goat antichrist.

Compare Colbat's Gin with this. Really, once you've heard it you know what it sounds like.