Oh, you goddamn right this cd pounds your wussy

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Goatwhore - Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun. Release date: August 26 2003

 

I couldn't wait so I got it now. The internet is a good thing sometimes.

 

 

when I first heard about this album's release I had to think long and hard about whether or not I could feasibly type on a computer with a keyboard that suddenly had the T,Y,F,G,H,V,B, keys very sticky. I finally had to breakdown and clean the damn thing because if I hadn't, I wouldn't be able to fill up several threads in this music folder with my Goatwhore fetish, easily off tracking everyone of them. And I just couldn't let that happen. I'm grim. Necro. Dedicated. You understand I'm sure. Anyway...

 

Goatwhore's website has a piece on the new album desccribing the direction of this they are taking things.

 

"Probing the pitch-black recesses of mind and soul in a disturbing, introspective examination of dark forces at work, and unleashing it all with a feral hookiness and atmospheric flare, the band steps beyond the bounds of mere black metal into a realm all its own"

 

This is no exaggeration on their part. This album cuts a huge swath across the realms of all things extreme in metal. The band has certainly matured with this release, truly spreading it's black wings. Interestingly, while the debut album (Eclipse Of Ages Into Black. one of the greatest album titles ever imo has it's roots firmly planted in an area of Death tinged Black Metal, this release goes in nearly opposite direction. This one has a very noticable increase in Death Metal, in pacing, riffs, and vocals. Of course, the Black Metal still dominates the majority of the album, but Goatwhore has(as mentioned above) gone deeper into the DM realms, even going so far as to pull a few new style (ie: ceph. carn. etc)GRIND riffs out of the cellar.

 

Mind you, there was always a..."grindy" edge to a lot of their riffs, but this is a far more pronounced edge to say the least. It is a truly nice fit along with the slower Dm pace of many of the songs, as well as a break from the all out BLACK THRASH ATTACK that is prevalent elsewhere.

 

Another thing to notice is that the production is WAY more out in front. This also seems to serve the new sound in somewhat backing away from the BM dominated sound of the first album. This thing just comes into the room and kicks your head in.

 

All the players are well represented here,

 

Ben Falgoust making throat drop makers everywhere very happy and showing that he still reigns very highly in the court of extreme vocals. The screams are still buffed with broken glass. The death growls(which are more prevalent here aswell) are still a tasty mix of Death puking and Black shredding which I love so much. '

 

Sammy Duet's riffs are still dirty as a newly sodomized christian whore while showing a great deal more range in scope(as referenced above). His riffs still snarling while aiding in your slow death, and then offering commentary while your limp corpse is being dragged back to hell. Kids, it doesn't come much better than this.

 

Bassist Pat Bruders even takes the helm a few times to welcome the bloodied listener to hell a few times with highly capable distoted bass rumbling sledgehammer.

 

Drummer Zak Nolan provides the backdrop of this album with intense blasting, and highly tasteful beats during the slow-midpaced areas of the songs. Never really taking the helm nor fading into the background. He truly comes up with a very strong statement on this album. Massively technical, while never swatting flies in a manner that would put him in company with mad grind drummers like Flo Mounier and their ilk. He uses many venerable styles from the past(This album has many regressions to old style black/death metal as on the first album. And I wouldn't have it any other way.) to accentuate the massive genre progression that these miscreants lead the way in already.

 

Look, this is FUCKING GOATWHORE. You know, to some extent, what you are going to get from them. But you cannot, in good conscience, call them any kind of copy cats because they display enough progression to have perfected their own genre by implementing new kinds of terror in their arsenal of retro black/death.

 

For any metal fan worth their salt, this album should reside very highly in any top 20 of the year list. It has anything a fan of extreme metal could ask for. But no synth. They don't appreciate that kind of thing in the swamp.

 

First album review I've ever done. It is basically for about 4 people here who might remotely care at all. I'm ok with that.

 

See you later, I have to go finish carving GOATWHORE into my forehead.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Be sure to rub shit in the letter wounds.

 

I'm DEFINITELY getting it. I've been waiting for this one for a while, and am extremely pleased to hear they're throwing in some grind influence, naturally. Good review based on the Flo~! reference.

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Why don't you just download it, and then buy it on the 26th?

[Guest Vitamin X]

Awesome review. I'll definitely check it out.

 

NORSK ARYSK BLAK METAL! RAAAH

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Thanks Vitamin, but you might not want to run around saying "Norsk Arysk Black Metal" too much .

[Guest Vitamin X]

Why is that? It's fun to say!

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Norsk arysk black metal = Norse ARYAN black metal.