When reading the name of the band I’m about to review, those already familiar with the way I perceive most of the Bestial Black Death Metal trend that’s been polluting the scene for almost 6 years now - mostly in the South America extreme metal spectrum – will probably be guessing that I’m just about to destroy Finnish ARCHGOAT new album, right? Well, let me tell you that you are fucking wrong in this case because “The Light-Devouring Darkness” has been spinning on my turn table for almost one month since I purchased it.I must be totally honest with you, I have never been a fan from these guys and besides this album I only got to know their previous “Whore of Bethlehem”, album which strangely enough, didn’t cause the major effect on me in spite in “The Light…” they keep their style completely intact. When noticing that, I push my ass up to get a new listen to their previous record to see what the fuck happened to me at the time I heard it since I don’t understand why the new album is so addictive to me now. And surprise! I know now what the aspect was that didn’t bewitch me so much. Everybody knows these mayhem purveyors are famous to drive their song writing in a very minimalist way based in fat dense chords that dives from really fast drum beats through mid tempos and really suffocating slow-doom-like breaks. Well to me, the aspect that didn’t fit quite well in their previous album is the whole fucking production which according to my point of view it didn’t provide the right mood for the pestilence to propagate in the right way. To me, the new sound of the band is denser proper of a Death Metal record in the likes of NECROS CHRISTOS (not so clean anyway, but it is similar keeping it slightly rawer) and utterly evil suits them best than ever. For instance, the sound accomplishes to bring the slow parts a ritualistic mood plus the cavernous effect and slight cleaner production in the vocals make the whole thing to accentuate a really grim skin, making it sounding solidly into the Black Metal camps still. Few are the bands able to provide to their simplistic dynamic in riffs a curtain of inspiring feeling, and certainly, ARCHGOAT is one of them. Now that I checked “Whores…” album, I guess if that one would have the same level of sound production as “The Light…” has, it might be a more appealing record to me. As about the songs, well, they compiled 9 new blasphemies which for me the best are: “Goat and the Moon” (check out the subtle keyboards at the background with some church-like chants, that sort of details made the song to have a whole outstanding dimension! It kind of reminds me to “Drawing down the Moon” slow songs), “Sodomator of the Doomed Venus” and “Fornicated Messiah”.
The Lp comes sort of austere to me, depicting the classical Chris Moyen artwork at the front cover plus jacket insert with lyrics + pictures. Nevertheless, the Lp sounds fucking killer! Contact the band HERE.
By U.Xerxes.H
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