"Fairly mid-tempo for a death metal album, "The IVth Crusade" is nonetheless brutal musically and lyrically - naturally, since Bolt Thrower's lyrical universe primarily deals with war. Yet the riffs in al their brutality has a certain melody to them. What's interesting is that, while this album surely is a death metal album, it contains a lot of thrashy elements that remind me primarily of Slayer and early Sacred Reich."