All the way from Osaka, Japan comes Iron Bludgeon with this cassette of black death. It's brutal war metal with a simplistic approach and a very repetitive way of writing songs. They ride riffs until it becomes almost trance-inducing, like a cross between Blasphemy and Von, with perhaps some Conqueror influence as well. The guitars are noisy and blown-out, with a buzzsaw roar. Do they perhaps use an HM-2? I'm not sure, but it sounds like they might on one guitar. The vocals are barked in a death grunt similar to Blasphemy's. The performance is tight but not overly concerned with precision - it's meant to be a bit raw. If you dig war metal, this is right in your wheelhouse, and you could definitely find worse bands. This is pretty good shit.
