Chaos & Warfare

Chaos & Warfare
Compilation album by Kekal/Slechtvalk
Released	2002
Genre	Heavy metal,[1] black metal,[1] symphonic black metal[1]
Length	40:04
Label	Fear Dark Records
Kekal chronology
The Painful Experience (2001) Chaos & Warfare (2002) 1000 Thoughts of Violence (2003)
Slechtvalk chronology
Falconry (2000) Chaos & Warfare (2002) The War That Plagues the Lands (2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Matt Morrow
Metal Storm	8/10[2]

Chaos & Warfare is a split album between the bands Kekal, from Indonesia, and Slechtvalk, from the Netherlands, released in 2002.^[3][4] Critical reception of the album was fairly positive, though Kekal’s side of the release drew some criticism from HM Magazine writer Matt Morrow.^[1] In particular, the band's use of clean vocals was viewed negatively by Morrow, who suggested that the band should have stuck to a solely black metal vocal style.^[1] Morrow also leveled heavy criticism at the song "A Stranger So Close".^[1] However, some parts of Kekal's material received praise. The song "Mean Attraction" from the band’s previous release, The Painful Experience was called a "hit,"^[4] and Morrow said that as that song was the best on The Painful Experience, he did not mind it on this release.^[1] Morrow also expressed admiration over Kekal's "emotional" and "passionate" cover of the Trouble song "The Skull".^[1] Overall, Morrow stated that Kekal was very talented, but held back somewhat by its experimentation.^[1] Slechtvalk's performance was highly praised by Morrow, who stated that he was anticipating the release of the album because of this band's appearance. He did direct some criticism at the first song, "Whispers in the Dark", for using a drum machine, but said that the following three songs, with real drumming, left him speechless.^[1] Stylistically, Slechtvalk played black metal for most of the album, with "The Dragon's Children" described as a "brutal, pure black metal song" without any keyboards, while the song "Storms" delved into a symphonic black metal style using extremely fast blasting and a mixture of black and death metal vocals.^[1] Morrow noted the band’s cover of "Kongsblood", which was originally by Antestor, stating that Slechtvalk did a great job, but that he liked atmosphere of the original version by Antestor better.^[1] Overall, Matt Morrow gave the album nine out of ten possible points. Promonex, a staff reviewer from Metal Storm, graded the album eight out of ten points.^[2] In an interview with Art for the Ears, Slechtvalk founder Shamgar said that while he liked his song "Storms" from the release, he prefers the material found on The War That Plagues the Lands, Slechtvalk's follow-up album.^[5]

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