Chaotic evil in alignment, hastened shredders Battlemaster will run you through with their debut full-length sword, "Warthirsting & Winterbound". In a baleful reign of fantastic metal domination, Battlemaster force you through a classic of a campaign, deep inside the bleak caverns of fantasy noire. These five Richmond, Virginia based adventurers speed your imagination through 10 tracks/45 minutes of belligerent but creative drumming and blackened crypt-crawling guitar-work, with a fast-paced goblinoid narration of bestial vocal variety."Warthirsting & Winterbound" summons an array of technical and necromantic spells of blackened thrash and forward-thinking melody to pay grim tributes to the fierce and forgotten denizens of the underdark. Recorded in the brilliance of winter with Cory Smoot (Gwar, Municipal Waste), the debut captures the momentum and urgency a of speedfreak game of AD&D. An epic weapon of aggressive and magical properties, Battlemaster 's "Warthirsting & Winterbound" has been released on fellow Richmond wizard-core label conglomerate Forcefield Records!!!!
BATTLEMASTER are Richmond's finest answer to the question "why aren't there more US death metal bands focusing on triumphant medieval conquest?" The answer is clear: because you gotta go big or go home... and on this quintet's latest self-released four-song demo, they go MEGA. It's all wailing guitars, unholy amounts of double-bass and raging, scathing vocals that would make Poseidon himself proud, throwing his trident towards Valhalla! You (hopefully) get the point though, and this band fucking rips.
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