Hungarian folk music? Why, yes. But it’s got a martial flavor and a bombast that belies any kitsch factor that anyone would dare associate. For further proof, note that the CD is released on Cold Meat Industry, a label that doesn’t take its martial offerings, lightly. This is music to inspire an army, or perhaps a would-be dictator…

Their press release sums up their style without a lot of room for question: “Sturmast is a collective fronted by Varga Gabor with real musicians playing real instruments, thus introducing the good old band-feeling to the martial industrial scene. The music contains powerful, eruptive live drums, haunting violin and cello, acoustic guitar, and a selection of traditional folk instruments. Even a considerable part of the samples and special effects are made by the band itself.”

One song is sung/spoken in German, but the remaining tracks are in Hungarian. No worries, though, they’ve included English translations for all of them in the digipak.

Highlights include the highly militant, “Veni Vedi Vici,” the delightfully twisted, “For Everyone Bread and Circus,” and the enormously powerful and over-the-top, “Solum Ipsum.”

www.myspace.com/sturmast

www.coldmeat.se/