Since their formation in 2007, MINENWERFER have pursued a proud 'n' pure vision of black metal idiosyncratically focused on World War I - idiosyncratic, in the sense that the band hail from America but mostly sing in German. What has resulted is a startlingly accomplished canon that has quietly built itself into prolific proportions, with their first album arriving in 2010, followed by albums in 2012 and 2019, and a slew of split releases and EPs in the interim.
That second album, Nihilistischen, took a moodier turn from MINENWERFER’s throttling debut album, Volkslieder. But while a relative expansion of dynamics made their songs sound even more epic, the duo likewise upped the muscle to their attack, arriving at a thicker soundfield than that no-less-considerable predecessor. What results is a work equally steeped in the ugly underground and the yonder battlefields of professionalism.
Tracklisting:
01 “One Has Renounced Grand Life When One Renounces War" (3:27)
02 Sea of Nihilism (4:43)
03 Lusitania (3:54)
04 Conquest (4:32)
05 "Man Shall Be Trained for War and Woman for the Procreation of the Warrior" (3:08)
06 Schlachtkreuzer (3:35)
07 Seydlitz (6:10)
08 Carnage of Jutland (4:24)
09 On Philosophy and War (5:53)
10 "It Is Mere Illusion and Pretty Sentiment to Expect Much from Mankind If He Forgets How to Make War" (3:01)
11 Wilhelmshaven (4:29)
12 Famine (3:57)
13 Heldenklage (2:10)
