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The German band Black Messiah is now active for 17 years and now they present their 4th full-length album. The pagan metal heads offer a concept album about the first war of the world - a war between the two tribes of Gods... The Æsir-Vanir War.
A narrator leads into the album, giving the basic information for the story to develop. After Prologue - The Discovery they kick off with The Vanir Tribe. The song has some black metal elements, but also mid-tempo parts which are more based in pagan / folk metal Some songs have German lyrics like Gullveig, which is a hymn-like folk metal tune, but also offers fast passages and what makes Black Messiah's sound more unique is the violin which is played by singer Zagan. Fast drumming forces the sextet ahead at Von Rachsucht und Lüge, but they also have slow and majestic parts woven into the more symphonic black metal tune. And then the narrator is back at March Of The Warriors - an kind of interlude to keep you in the loop. A Viking metal track is Vor den Toren Valhallas and is followed by a bombastic, symphonic track called The Battle Of Asgaard. The long track is surprising with black metallic attacks and is one of my favorites. This track combines the main elements of the Black Messiah sound, so if you aren't familiar with the Germans, then check this one out! So let them entertain you with their musical interpretation of the Æsir-Vanir War. A slow, partly balladesque tune is Andacht which leads out the album. An epic tune, but it also has faster passages where they go full force ahead. But the tune becomes special through the lyrics, but as they use German lyrics it probably can't show its beauty when you don't understand the words...
Somehow First War Of The World is a mixture of an audio book and a metal album with its narrator and story telling lyrics. Fans of pagan metal and the Norske mythology should check out Black Messiah's new CD!
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