Goatpenis - Depleted Ammunition (2011)

   By being formed in the early '90s, Goatpenis looks back to a longer past than how it might be expected, but it's another thing how much this counts, since the band have earned wider attention in the underground only in the early '00s. Their war metal style and character also took its well know form during this time, though it was clear even on their early, hardly enjoyable demo tapes, that they've been experimenting with something strongly blasphemous black metal related stuff, but the real breakthrough took like a decade for them.
   "Depleted Ammunition" was their third full-length album, when they turned the closest to how war metal sounds like.The previous two albums were also evidently the mix of black and death metal, and they've been pretty enjoyable already, but their sound quality still have left something to be desired. Intentionally or unintentionally it reflected more the (poor) sound quality of Norwegian black metal, and this took a lot from the noisy intensity that's usually expected from a war metal band. Things have been changing step by step, album by album, and on "Depleted Ammunition" on the side of the music, both the sound and the concept reached to the required extreme level. The band's musical progress was slow but spectacular and interesting. It's suspected that they intended to do something what war metal definitely isn't famous about: experimenting to not recreate exactly the same what they've been done before. Despite the strict borders of the style, probably Goatpenis has the most diverse discography among war metal bands. It's the listener's job to decide how advantageous it is in this genre.