1914 (2)
The Blind Leading The Blind

Listening notes

1914 is a metal band whose 2019 album The Blind Leading The Blind was released on Napalm Records under catalog number NPR 870 VINYL. The release is classified across several genres — black metal, death metal, doom metal, sludge metal, and rock — a spread that suggests a deliberately wide-ranging approach to heavy music rather than strict genre orthodoxy.

The vinyl edition is spread across four sides, with tracks distributed across positions A through D. Side A opens with "War In" and continues through "Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne" and "A7V Mephisto." Side B carries "High Wood. 75 Acres Of Hell," "Beat The Bastards," and "C'est Mon Dernier Pigeon." Sides C and D complete the record, moving through "Hanging On The Barbed Wire," "Passchenhell," "Stoßtrupp," "The Hundred Days Offensive," and closing on "War Out."

The track titles alone establish a consistent thematic focus. References to the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Passchendaele, High Wood, the A7V Mephisto tank, and the Hundred Days Offensive point clearly to the First World War as the album's central subject. That framing appears to extend to the album's title, which echoes a phrase associated with the futility and catastrophe of that conflict. The symmetry of opening with "War In" and closing with "War Out" suggests a deliberate structural choice intended to mirror the arc of the war itself.

The four-sided format indicates this is a double LP, accommodating eleven tracks across two records. No track durations are confirmed in the available data.

This is an unreviewed draft. Personnel, pressing details, recording history, and reception have not been verified and are not included here.