There are few bands in life that hit as hard as Revenge, even in the murky and unforgiving world of war metal / bestial black metal this shit slaps at a whole other level. If black metal itself is akin to freezing your enemies with a deep penetrating fatal frost, then war metal is then the fire that comes to cook them alive and what we get here in this shambling, chaotic metal is the metaphorical flesh sloughing away from the bone. Honestly, everything sounds like it could fall apart at any second, but alas the barrage continues and we are smashed into the ground over and over and over by Revenge’s relentless assault.
When I picked this up to play I was under the impression it was the band’s first EP, but instead I listened to the reissue / compilation version, which included a bunch of stuff from splits and the like from other the years. It was only on track 8, “Lamb”, that I felt that the session had changed and the sound was noticeably different, otherwise this comp flowed like an actual full length for me, which speaks volumes for the quality and consistency of Revenge’s output over the years. Brutal fucking stuff.