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Conqueror - War Cult Supremacy

Songs for mutilation, murder, rape and death. - 93%

SeveredMagus, October 16th, 2004

First of all, I don't think this SOUNDS like Blasphmey or Sarcofago. (They are fast as fuck, like Blasphemy, but then again Suffocation and Marduk are really fast too...) Read's drumming does have a D.D. Crazy feel, but musically, if I must compare them to anyone, think Sadistik Exekution meets “The Oath of Black Blood” on a LOT of coke imported from South America.

Musically, Conqueror are/were PIONEERS in the vicinity of extreme metal. They set up the bar of extremity soooo high, I doubt any shaved-head "nihilistic" band from any country will be able to top these Canadians for at least the next 15 years. And, what makes this album (even more) appreciated is the fact that to a fan of Arch Enemy or Children of Bodom it won’t even sound like music… it’s literally audial war, devoid of any signs of life, structure or conventionality. BLOODY ORIGINAL. (Only in this regard they are similar to Blasphemy and Sarcofago, as these bands’ debuts were also revolutionary.)

Ryan Forster’s approach to the guitar is unlike anything I’ve heard before on a metal release, giving new denotation to the words “toxic” and “primitive”. But it is Mr. James Read who steals the show, drumming the living shit out of anything and everyone in site, and a voice so unruly that it makes Burzum sound like Abba.

...And then EVERYONE and their uncle turned in to Conqueror fans. Neo-nazis, newbies, WAR-metallers... When the band was active very few people actually gave a crap about them, but then Pete "The Philosopher" Helmkamp was seen wearing their shirt on that CD, and slowly the Conqueror mania caught on, the name-dropping got out of control and eventually the metal world witnessed the worst attempt at War Metal by a novelty duo called Cobalt.

War Cult Supremacy, in my opinion, is the most violent album ever to be recorded by a metal band. Please buy this before you kill yourself.