First track "Crematorium" is a mostly single-chord rant with full-on death metal vocals accompanying the stabs of grim guitar, providing a measure of what may be to come, before "Carpet Bombing" lurches into earshot with a limping, mid-paced groove that evolves into a more traditional black metal soundscape - fast and furious in other words.

Thus far my impressions are that this is a decent enough effort for its genre, but certainly nothing remarkable. The third track, "Manoeuvre East" does have some interesting atmospherics and changes of pace, and the guitar work is almost Opeth-like at times. "Napola" has a chugging mid-paced groove that could almost have come from Tiamat or The Sisters of Mercy (were it not for the vocal style overlaying it), before the band revert to a more black-metal feel for the following track, "MG-34". Not sure what that refers to - some kind of neurotoxin, or a missile, or a type of jet fighter, who knows?

"False Flag" offers more of the same, more or less, before we're into slower, more atmospheric territory once again with "Nerve Agent". Perhaps attempting to surprise us a little, the band complete the album with "Morphium" a crawling, claustrophobic slow-paced doom-metal churner which sounds somewhat like a track that My Dying Bride might have thrown away- which doesn't actually mean it's particularly bad.

Not a bad effort all in all, although as I say, "Warfare Machines" holds only a few minor surprises and not a great deal to stir the imagination. Or maybe it's just because it's the summer and listening to this sort of music at this time of year doesn't quite hold any particular fascination for me.

Worth checking out though, if slightly experimental black/death metal is your kind of thing.