Perhaps one expects a Black Metal side project out of an Eastern European republic (the Czech Republic, to be exact) to be an under-produced and unforgiving slice of Black Metal grimness.  Perhaps in most cases this assumption would be correct, but on WAR FOR WAR’s "Kovy Odjinud", it is wholly misguided.  From the evil yet, dare I say it, catchy opening of “Stokrat Vrhnu Stin” to the final track, Lord Morbivod, WAR FOR WAR’s mastermind, traffics in some honestly accessible pure Black Metal.  This is not to say that the album is some piece of fluff.  The title track contains chainsaw riffs and hoarse vocals aplenty, while the blastbeats come fast and furious through the record’s running time.  Showing off the album’s welcome diversity of sound, “Scientia” begins with a foreboding keyboard lead-in, but the meat of the song comes from some very traditional-sounding guitar riffs, ones perfectly suited for headbaning. 

The lyrics in "Kovy Odjinud" are, in their entirety, spoken (or screamed) in Czech.  While the nature of the genre usually makes lyrics indiscernible no matter what one’s native tongue might be, this does add another layer of inaccessibility for English speaks, even if they are used to lyrics in Norwegian or Swedish.  This is certainly not a fault of the album, rather, it adds to the subterranean atmosphere of "Kovy Odjinud", which derives its lyrical concept from the underground mines and caves (and metaphorically, the depths of the human soul) of the Czech Republic.  This is Black Metal smart enough to appeal to Metalheads who might be neophytes to the genre, as well as the most dedicated corpsepaint-wearing Black Metal soldier.