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Warbringer - War Without End

Enjoyable, but nothing special. - 75%

IronMessiah, July 9th, 2008

I have heard a lot of good things about this band, in fact a lot of great things.

However, look what I saw on my first glance of the album. Tanks, nuculear war, war, genocide, war... This seems to be just an average modern-day thrash band. The truth is that, well... Warbringer is just an average modern-day thrash band. Total War by Warbringer from the album War Without End... are you seeing a theme here?

What I heard was far from spectacular, but kept me listening becuase it was just plain fun to listen to. The obvious highlight of the album is "Total War", filled with generic leads and melodic riffs. Nothing is really great about this track compositionally or structurally, but guess what? Thrash was never meant to be about composition or structure, it was about banging your head and throwing your fist up, which is just what this song(and album for the most part) makes you want to do. And you can imagine at shows when they play this song and it stops for him to say "Total Waaaar!" everyone there will be backing him up. How even the most exclusive thrash elitist could not enjoy this song beats me.

The rest of the album is basically just like "Total War" except not as good overall. Still enjoyable to listen to. ( I'd like to point out that both this album and Evile's Enter the Grave both have a shark-attack themed song on track 6, hmm, coincidence you think?)

The only tracks that are somewhat different from the rest of the album are "At the Crack of Doom" and "A Dead Current"(the 'secret track'). The first 40 seconds of the former trick you into thinking that it's going to be a slow doomy song, then, surprise- Black/Thrash attack! Well actually, it's not that reminiscent of black metal, but the tremolo-ed lead line is sure convincing.

The secret track is a bit slower and pretty short. It's a guitar-solo driven instrumental(like we haven't seem one of those before!) that is only a tad bit interesting, but manages to keep attention long enough for the album to end.

Overall, not a great album musically, but party-wise, it's amazing. Perfect for cranking up loud in a car and going 60 down the highway with. Warbringer are like 3 Inches of Blood for thrash fans(but they obviously take themselves more seriously): mediocre musically but still fun to listen to and reasonably catchy. This album isn't a must for thrash fans, but it's entertaining.