A bit older release but it doesn’t matter. Archgoat are Finnish veterans with their roots going back even to 1989. Formed by Ritual Butcherer and Lord Angelslayer, this entity deliver their vision of apocalyptic black death metal with Satanic themes and thus create a vision of fire, void, blackness and utter destruction. The music of Archgoat is bestial, not unlike Blasphemy and similar contemporary bands, there are some synth ritualistic undertones but this is darkness itself. Thundering bass and guitars blistering with hate, coupled with Lord Angelslayer’s death metal growling rather than your usual black metal screaming. There are four songs on this one, all fist in the eye of nazarene and his minions. Songs like Nightside Prayer or The Semen of Anti-Mastery are going to bring you to war eternally.
8/10
As promised, here is the review for new issue, number 13 of the best fanzine in this region right now. Fanzine is in Serbian language with contributors from all over ex Yugoslavia region. This one featured more or less interesting interview with Cock Sparrer, great interview with Napalm Death, this issue’s special is about one of the best Serbian hardcore bands Unison and how they recorded their album. What I love the most are tour stories and diaries, this issue contains tour diary of Parnepar(excellent!) and Sukob/Nailed In mini tour diary(more excellent!). Columns were always important for me in such fanzines so these columns in this issue are superb plus festival reports and gig reports that I also love to read. Fanzine ends as usual with music and fanzine reviews. Hats off to the crew and I eagerly await next issue.
Toilet Rats are hailing from Minnesota and this is their brand new opus. This is a bit different from other bands and projects reviewed on the pages of this webzine. This one offers 10 songs that are basically electro pop with horror lyrics, but also industrial and some horror punk thrown in with gothic for good measure. Vocals are beautiful almost other worldly and fit perfectly to the songs. The melodies are perfect and would be awesome in any horror punk band out there, even better. All of this sounds like a perfect soundtrack to the eighties horror movie, some slasher or creature feature. My personal favorites are Haunted Haus, Carol Kane, Sensory Overload. Good album for some who like it different.
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