Warfield - With The Old Breed (2025)

Information

Artist – Warfield

Album – With The Old Breed

Label – Independent

Released – April 4th, 2025

Type – Full-length

Genre – Thrash Metal

Additional

Notes

With the Old Breed is the second full-length album from German thrash trio Warfield, released April 4, 2025 via Napalm Records. The lineup consists of Johannes Clemens — vocals & bass, Matthias Clemens — guitars, and Dominik Marx — drums. Recorded at Darkone Studio (Mainz) and SU2 Studio (Illingen), the album was produced and engineered by Karsten Aurig (aka Karsten Gries) and Phil Hillen, with Hillen also handling mixing and mastering. Stylistically, the album channels the Teutonic thrash sound of Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction, with Bay Area influences reminiscent of Exodus. The lyrics explore societal, historical, and internal wars, with tracks like "Soul Conqueror" depicting the aftermath of conflict and "Appetitive Aggression" examining humanity's primal instincts. Released on CD, 12" vinyl (gatefold limited edition), and digital formats, the vinyl includes a bonus cover of "F# (Wake Up)" by Nuclear Assault. The production delivers raw, old-school thrash aggression with razor-sharp guitars, dive-bomb solos, and relentless drumming typical of the German thrash revival.

Videos

- Appetitive Aggression
- Soul Conqueror
- Lament of the White Realm
- Tie the Rope

Recording

Recorded at Darkone Studio & SU2 Studio.
Mixed and mastered at SU2 Studio.

Tracklist

1. Melting Mass – 02:59 >

Open your eyes and be showered with cant A daily competition about who's more different Cloned individuality, pervasive falsehood Top-down pressure takes you down like a flood Survival of the fitting in society's claws Fall out of the scheme and be crushed in its jaws Let them spit you out if you're not to their taste There's no chance for acceptance and you're losing your caste Losing your caste! Flaming eyes reflect the wretched greed Mouths wide open, money to feed Blunt immorality, recognition's a fake You blindly go further, there's more profit to make So keep on climbing the ladder of gold Each step covers up another leak in your soul And in the end the only concerns are assets and fame Can't you see – you're all the same Die for reputation Adjusted piece, braindead Precast mold creation Become a melting mass Die for reputation Adjusted piece, braindead Precast mold creation Become a melting mass Die for reputation Adjusted piece, braindead Precast mold creation Become a melting mass Die for reputation Adjusted piece, braindead Precast mold creation Become a melting mass

2. Appetitive Aggression – 03:40 >

Cast off the veil of morality Profane wrath is guiding me Deep-rooted in my chronical I taste the essence of true life Outrage and ruthlessness Inherently internalized Animalistic need, instinctive surge I thrive in predatory greed Appetitive Aggression Hidden beneath credulity Suppressed primitive propensity Memoir composed in genetic code Without reward there is no act Devote myself to the impulsive stream Labelled and stamped by society Unfiltered lust, supremacy Legally void human hunt Appetitive Aggression Aggression! Pupils dilating, morphing initiated Voice of impulse, dictator of power Animal sense, braindead revelation Blood-rush-vortex flooding every bound Ingrained source pumping appetite Adrenalin-blitzkrieg raging in my veins Circle of life, primal intention Finding myself in the realness of the kill Realness of the kill!

3. Soul Conqueror – 03:20 >

Just after dusk, night warning, darkness all around The ascension of the supernatural death ensemble Creeping along with songs for the vietcong Mind hunt through the jungle temple Break the guerilla tactic, ancestral cult solution Strain mental burden, conquer their heads Messages of sanity enforce the withdrawal of the enemy To rule the nation with their folklore tales Departed comrades on the ground Internalize the hideous sound Soak in the horrors that will be No proper prayer for the dying No absolution of the soul Death signalized by exploited owls Tormented souls on the loose, cause permanent grief The aftermath of spiritual belief Wailing, roaring, moaning ghosts Echoing death tapes, count to ten Introducing the afterlife, restless, far from home Urging to venerate the faith of their own Gruesome, lifeless, floating tombs Carry the spirits of the dead Departed comrades on the ground Internalize the hideous sound Soak in the horros that will be Buried in careless haste Gone to die in nameless graves Aimless wandering in pain and suffering Departed comrades on the ground Internalize the hideous sound Soak in the horros that will be Buried in careless haste Gone to die in nameless graves Aimless wandering in pain and suffering

4. Fragmentation – 04:30 >

Since war is a gambling for life and death I'm living on the edge The rush of battle takes me on a trip To get my daily drug Deranged killing delight slumbers inside Embodied danger to my troop Inner war lust is shown to daylight But I don't give a fuck Maladjustment Accompanied by negligent recklessness Inability They crave that you'll make the ultimate sacrifice Your means of waging war Exploit that in battle there is no law Fragmentation Targeted friendly fire is the highest prize The constant altercation and persistent agitation doesn't end And makes him fall from grace For his tongue lashing preference and the abhorrence I will blow his fucking face away We work towards salvation with the death imagination For the one who divided the strong bond Different ways have been taken and for not being forsaken At the front he will not longer stay Insubordination Discipline hangs by a thread Vanished reputation You're getting marked like a coveted treasure Solidarity Hides in a shadow and falls into oblivion Fragmentation A farewell letter with your signature Uncertainty, hostility, self-fulfilling prophecy Fog, intoxicated midnight crime Scapegoats, hidden strategy, wrath, beginning mutiny Now all sanity is on the line The veil of secrecy mingles with the dark Ambush attack, there's nothing left to lose I improve the shining hour and cleanse my soul Insanity's my state of mind Speaking out your death sentence Then start the timer in my hand To have a sense of purpose again I'm leaving you far behind Fragmentation crushes into your last dream Tearing down the wall of sleep Your detonated body and the penetrated skin Satisfy my only will Covered in black you got your payback Reprisal in the dead of night Will there ever be an evidence about who committed the kill?

5. Lament of the White Realm – 04:27 >

White death! Into the stone we're summoned to hold ground Adament line, not to yield, not to bend down The immovable white God-given front in purgatorial height Through the ice and the boulders Loyalty and death over our shoulders Determined to the utmost We eat the whip of the invisible ghost Roar of the avalanches, rolling like tears For that our freezing lungs preserve the fatherland's breath Withstand the blizzard and burn it down with lead Agony calls through the echoing walls Over the edge a promise falls Lament of the White Realm Powder and smoke overcast the thin air A nation's dream – a logistical nightmare The cable haulage spans high Roof of the world built to defend and defy So we man the trenches With burning hearts and frostbitten senses Forever frozen in time We cry out words in desperate hope of a rhyme Gaze to the heavens where all life dies For that our freezing lungs preserve the fatherland's breath Withstand the blizzard and burn it down with lead Agony calls through the echoing walls Over the edge a promise falls Lament of the White Realm

6. Tie the Rope – 04:16 >

There's a rope hanging down a tree It is the neckbreaking truth of society The knot is tightened with a rotten conception And every fibre's made of arrogance It's in the air that you swallow and in the dirt that you breathe Here hangs the misapprehension of human supremacy If freedom of will is our highest good Then tell me why are we enslaved We play a game we are bound to lose Deification of a mind – deranged Alright! Tie the fucking rope! Hear – our backbone rupturing under our own weight Progression becomes regress and more isn't enough To quench the egomania of our age All you wanna do is be yourself And at the same time indoctrinate everybody else Our world is coated with an artificial layer We buy and our conscience is the payer Beauty is becoming tragedy Now my fellow don't you look at me This wreck is yours as much as it's mine Face it - It's everyone's decline Tie the rope! Tie the Rope! Feel – the roadkill scraping the varnish off our crown Mine is the kingdom, power, glory forever Until the host comes back for another round Fattened selves graving for dung Lacerating shots from loaded shot-tongues Dissecting the villains you enforce yourself to hate Rubbed-off rage publicly displayed Pleasure is becoming agony Once beloved one don't you seek in me The reason for your self-doubt Get it – nobody lives without Tie the rope! Tie the Rope! Let's breed stress and feed on it Come join the army and deal with it! There is a rope hanging down a tree It it the neck-retching loop of modernity We all balance on the edge of the hangman's chair A painting of our selves in still life – hollow ware We are the judge yet we won't stir a bit As long as the hammer's up the ego can act out its shit Negotiation repelled Fate decides the second you let go!

7. Inhibition Atrophy – 03:09 >

Death from the heavens Diligent rapid dispatch Elaborated deceit Obedience, unconditional Unmanned executor Efficient, certain and cheap This is modern warfare But who will rule the roost? Sentence is passed from above Decided and pronounced from the save remove Observed by the all-seeing eye Faceless deed Inhibition Atrophy Another armament race Cash flows red, disabled conscience Anti-terroristic pretence Power-game-mania shrouded in angst Enemy dehumanized Trained numb shells, deadened inside This is modern warfare A display of man's conceit Sentence is passed from above Decided and pronounced from the save remove Observed by the all-seeing eye Faceless deed Inhibition Atrophy Sentence is passed from above Decided and pronounced from the save remove Observed by the all-seeing eye Faceless deed Sentence is passed from above Decided and pronounced from the save remove Observed by the all-seeing eye Faceless deed Inhibition Atrophy

8. Dogs for Defense – 04:45 >

Proclamation Woken appetency, born through ideology Path of nature Inherent by history, a generation's task Herd instinct - a gathered pack Abiding devotedness, burning ambition Disciplined zest for action, foaming at the mouth Precipitate into ruin Degenerated breeding Dissolution of the free will Domesticated irony in tyranny Dogs for defense Dogs! Dogs for defense Dogs for defense Swarming out we pick up the scent to glory Fragrance of dead men Ruby-red-smudged paths we condone Subjection of the mind War-chant – be our guide Spearhead brutality, compulsive obedience Allegiant we hearken to the masters' word Choked by the leash of force Crushed throats, dazed in perception Lured by delusive choirs The anthem for a doomed youth Dogs for defense Dogs! Dogs for defense Dogs for defense Dogs for defense! Dogs for defense! Dogs for defense!

9. GASP – 07:17 >

Doom ascends Surging mist Crawling wall Streaming pest Costumes on Scene is set Mephitic ball Dance with death Gas-shouts, skeletal masks tell the tale Wind delivers chemical law Hysteria, invulnerable steam fills the trench Creeping inside the gasping prey Shapeless, every piece of iron is a waste Throat and lung capitulate Asphyxia, foul air strangulates Suck on the saving appliance Gather At Suffering's Peak Ant-fight, radiate insecticide Cauterize the nest Sanctimonious, false prophets look from above Acid dripping down their halos, corroding the bugs Gather At Suffering's Peak Bells go off again Panic and rush spread in the trench A quick grasp, the hand craves for the rag Breath in Brace for the yellow offense Big eyes watch the scene through turbid panes Contaminant takes the sight The vision is gone but the image remains Psy-war is fucking the wits Smoked out Drowning in a sea of green Death in grace extends its merciful hand Gather At Suffering's Peak

10. With the Old Breed – 04:11 >

Eastwards, where purity sublimes Crime and punishment aligns, descended into futility Chaotic monotony, hate echoes persistently Reflected duty hits the servant in his netherrealm The ghastliest corner of hell, it ain't no place to dwell Not for a plant to thrive, so spoke the widowed wife I draw my lot out of the fractured skull Reliant upon the comrades' call With The Old Breed Caught tight, within maggoty stench Inspite of somberness, entrenched, malicious beauty I see Dull gleaming brutality, preposterous reality We shall embrace the sheer illogic for a higher good We seek no glory, no fame, nor any theatric game Placed on the pyre, our gift, 's called unit paradigm shift Would give my life to save your soul Concordant memoirs, rousing, at the gallow's pole With The Old Breed Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying sun Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying son Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying sun Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying son Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying sun Paradise lost in the east A helmet for my pillow Red blood, black sand and a dying son With The Old Breed!

Total length: 42:34

Lineup

Band Members

    Dominik Marx – Drums

    Matthias Clemens – Guitars

    Johannes Clemens – Vocals, Bass

Miscellaneous Staff

    Karsten Aurig – Producer, Recording

    Phil Hillen – Producer, Recording, Mixing, Mastering

    Salina Damer – Photography

    Adam Burke – Cover art

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