Immediately, the listener presses that play button, and the listener is welcomed to a world of unorthodox creativity of various components of over fifty minutes of nine equally vigorously composing songs.
So, marching onto the Desert Battle Realm, where the listener is welcome to the opening track of a dusty sound of the Middle East-folk instrumentation introduction.
With Old Form Of Evil, being the first song following the intro, which opens to some wired sound FX, harshly spoken words, thrash shredding, and drumming. This leads onwards into the remaining album that delivers a burning passion through each song. At the same time, this unites the whole album around a single notion of capturing/embracing the middle-eastern desert and folk music with a blackened death atmosphere/folk-thrash feel throughout the release.
Desert Battle is full of life, the creativity of a musical structure that truly captures something honestly within their music. Arallu puts so much effort into bringing their music to life of powerful lyrical content. They have excellent devilmanship in their piece, not just in this release, but also in others they have created and remastered.
At the same time, Desert Battle is a full-on throttle blackened war anthem that delivers not slightly darkened death. Offers the listener the enjoyment of carnage of different tempos, heavy-thrash shreds and drumming, rhythmic, melodies/ditto rhythm sections, chord shredding axing, incorporating various middle-eastern folk instruments, evil-harsh vocals with the classic Slayer screams. Darkly atmosphere soundscapes/theatrically moments, transfixing twisty ‘n’ torturous anthem of capturing a sound of their own.
Arallu doesn’t just play Middle Eastern Blackened Death Folk metal; they make their music so that you can feel and taste their music and homeland and call this demon “Middle Eastern Black Metal.”
The album comes to an end with the last song, Battleground (live). We want to give a shoutout to Arallu for letting us review their album, Desert Battles. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
