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Goatvargr - Goatvargr [Cold Spring - 2006]

Goatvargr conjure up some great evil and brutal atmospheres, mixing noise, ritualistic rhythmic patterns and dark ambient sounds capes, along with touches of black metal. All of this makes a great varied album, heavy with satanic air.

Droning Hades is built around wonderful black droning guitar feedback, and flecks of noise, giving a great feeling of hovering blackness, which fogs your head. Giving much the same  feeling of a intro or outtro part of a classic Darkthrone track. Beyond The Quorthonian Realms is the longest track on offer, and is a wonderful concoction of eerier blackly curdled ambience, heady with chanted vocal and animal sounds. It starts of slowly, then bombards you with sheets of swirling noise, like you’ve conjoined up the dark one, later on looped female screams are added, that are quite unsettling, they soon become smeared into the noise. There are lots of interesting elements dropping in and out of the noise and the noise its self twist into interesting shapes like the sound of black metallic down pours, machine gun like cluster of noise, drilling mix with streached human screams. The track leads out with its ambient start and goats bleating. The start of Goatlord Riffing sounds like what it might be like to swim in a sea of moaning souls, along with backwards satanic voicing, then a heart monitor and noise beat appear, swirls of static, build around them, but it  still keeps the eerier atmosphere, with glides along in the back ground. One can Imagine footage of a dark ritual speeded up, faces appear dripping with blood and other bodily fluids, and trails of candle light, illuminating unspeakable acts.

A perfect soundtrack to what every devilry, you like to get up to. A nice mix of brutality and tar black atmospheric. Which no doubt could conjuring up all sorts of unpleasant imagery in the listeners mind.Go here to download a sample

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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