Teitanblood - Seven Chalices (2009)

   If it's about visuals, Teitanblood maybe doesn't fit completely to the threatening line of war metal bands, but musically they definitely do. The fact that Proclamation's ex vocalist took main role in the band, already gives a hint what to expect.
   Silimar to Proclamation, Teitanblood also operates with quite heavy and noisy sound and raw themes, but for merging deep into the heaviness, they prefer to slow down sometimes. That results more old school feeling, and also sharpened the contrast with the fast brutal switches. Teitanblood is more musical therefore: not chaos breeding was the main goal, but to create something well composed and unified in the same concept. Unlike at most similar bands, the atmosphere also took a part on the album in the form of longer interludes. Even though their common use (like between all songs) is certainly not the best idea, because it's able to took a lot from the enjoyability of the music and the continuity of the album by completely castrating it; in this case their long assistance is reasonable. The dark, meditating atmospheric noises didn't softened the album becase they're not involed into the songs (also because the album is exaggeratedly brutal anyway), and they fit to the main feeling. They also serve as some break to prepare for the following devastation. "Seven Chalices" sounds refreshing by it's small creative experiments amongst the most compromiseless blasphemic monsters of the genre.