Guerra Total are a band from Columbia that has been featured before in this zine and on this recording plays an old school mixture of black, death, thrash, speed and heavy metal and this is a review of their 2020 album "War Is The Pursuit Of Death: A Hymnal For the Misanthrope" which was released as a joint effort between Satanath Records and Iron, Blood & Death Corp.
Clean playing starts off the album before going into a heavier musical direction while the faster sections of the songs also add in a great amount of blast beats. Melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing along with the vocals being mostly grim sounding black metal screams.
Elements of thrash metal can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. The guitar solos and leads are also done in a very dark yet melodic style along with some of the guitar riffing also adding in some influences of early 90's era death metal as well as a few growls.
Clean playing and acoustic guitars also makes a return on some of the later tracks along with some of the solos and leads adding in touches of 70's to 80's era traditional metal. One track also adds in a brief use of spoken word parts and as the album progresses an influence of speed metal can also be heard and the songs also make an old school style sound more modern. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Spanish and English and cover philosophy, mythology, atheism,nihilism, cosmicism and selective misanthropy themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Guerra Total and if you are a fan of black, death, thrash, speed and heavy metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Ancient Hymns To The Goddess Of War(Inanna)" "Ethnocide (World Cenotaph)" "Holomodor (La Muerte Roja)" and "Whiskey Botch". 8 out of 10.
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