I doubt Thomas is trying to cement such a genre into stone or daily use here. Instead it’s a quick way to throw in the basic elements that make up the music — especially today, when bands seem to cross their boundaries more often than not and simply calling it black/death/doom/thrash/heavy [metal] wouldn’t necessarily cut it either.

Granted, one could have used “melodic take on blackened war metal” instead of wording it like it was in the review, but in the end, in this case, it would have basically been the same thing.

Besides, ‘blackened war meta1’ is kind of a niché in the first place. Why can’t it be just war metal? And how are war and battle metal different? War is more fierce? It’s all subjective, anyway. At the end of the day, adding melodic to the front isn’t that big of a deal and debating what is or isn’t black metal is kind of getting old too when you’ve got n+1 views (ie. Venom: yay or nay?) — but that’s just me.

But seriously speaking, worry not as the feedback has been noted and we’ll keep it mind at our bi-weekly genre creation phone conferences.