Well I know I’m not a “real” black metalhead, but I’m a metalhead and this record sounds just the way I like my black metal, raw, with a couple of rock n’ roll riffs placed in specific segments, a haunting vocal work, and straight up blasts from a dirty and unyielding drum attack.

The songs can go from a mid tempo evil riffs to a fast and sadistic attack, the speed of the songs really vary on the album, and that is one the reasons why its so attractive; the use of blast beats is perfectly well though and is not a constant element use to the exhaustion of the listener, when the blast beats come to play, they do it for a good reason, and they just help the songs explode at the right moment.

Burial Hordes has a little 1349 going on, but they as different from the Norwegians, can slow things up with out loosing all the aggressiveness and darkness of their music, a perfect example of this are the songs “Unholy, Ultra-violent Domination” a fast black attack that places you into a frenetic state only to be taken to a deeper stage when the follow up “Majestic Black Dawn Arise” slow the tempo down.

The album begins with an atmospheric prelude that becomes one of the best tracks on the album, “Bestial Bloodwar” has blast beats, a few rock n’ roll guitar lines and the classic black metal drum work, there is a nice voice effect at the end of the track; overall a great choice to start the album.

The best thing about “War, Revenge & Total Annihilation” is that every song has a personality on its own but they all belong to the same picture created by the band, and that is old school black metal with out any “ornaments” other than great riffs and a solid song writing that has no fillers or boring clichés.

The entire production is quite good, achieving that dirty sounding effect all over the instruments but keeping them audible, after all what will a raw black metal album sound like with a crystal clear production, is part of the beauty of it, to sound dirty and subterranean.

Songs like “Beyond Thy Mortal Sphere” provide a chaotic scenario with out letting the brutality take complete control and destroying the track, quite a few tempo changes in here, all well planned and executed.

Good album, it may take you some time to digest all of their rhythms (if you are not into black metal) but at the end of the day you will discover the evil seduction within every single riff.