This is a very good one. A Black Metal album - the old-school Norwegian way - even if the band comes from Italy. And who's credited for saying who from where should play what, anyway? KULT refer to their name with much of grimness and Winds Of War will live up to your expectations if you feel tired from all the late 'poser' Black (my ass) Metal bands around.
I guess the band - or duo - would like not to include female vocals and keyboards in their sound, when they decided to form KULT back in 2002 in Como, Insubria, Italy. Werewolf (aka 'Bloodtide') and Kacele seem rather confident to what they're performing in Winds Of War. If you can tell/judge a book by its cover, then the artwork will surely help in blowing the war winds in your ears. Old-school Norwegian Black Metal be it, and tracks like the same-titled opus, Torment, Seven Blades (Of The Reaper) and Final Embrace will travel your evoked soul to grim spaces up in North-East Scandinavia. Winds Of War was recorded in 2006 at Alpha Omega Studio (MORTUARY DRAPE/ANCIENT), plus it was mixed, mastered and perfromed by the band themselves (omit the guitars work, donated by the infamous Aphazel of ANCIENT). Hence, the sound.
GORGOROTH, CARPATHIAN FOREST, BURZUM and some of GRAVELAND: not what someone would 'pen' as a personal/original style. On the other hand, who can give a fuckin' damn? Winds Of War features the misanthropy, bleakness and epos needed to make a nice (real) Black Metal album for your occult pleasure. Few lyrics, plenty of 'cold' riffs, both up-tempos and blastbeats and if - in conclusion - you laugh at what DIMMU BORGIR and CRADLE OF FILTH expose, this album's for you.