Artist: Warbringer
Released: 2009 RATING: 4/5
The Good: Warbringer's second album is vicious, aggressive, and completely awesome. The difference between Nightmares and the albums bookending it (The debut War Without End and third album Worlds Torn Asunder) is that the overall quality of each and every song individually is better, and the combined result is a real kick in the ass. The intense thrashing and plain-ol', brutal goodness of "Jackal", "Living in a Whirlwind", "Severed Reality", "Shadow from the Tomb" and "Senseless Life" establish Warbringer as go-to guys for fans of seriously heavy, but still seriously good, metal. As mentioned before, Warbringer at times sound similar to Demolition Hammer with their Thrash/Death combo (with singer John Kevill even offering a startlingly Chuck Schuldiner-esque growl at one point), but their sound is their own. Nic Ritter's drum work is spectacular; his super-technical style makes for many high points throughout the album. The Guitars are great, the bass is HUGE. This is the best place to start for anyone interested in the band.
The Bad: There is an instrumental track that sounds somewhat like Metallica's "The Call of Ktulu", just without the Metal fireworks. That's all.
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