Skip to content

The Goat Review

The Goat Review

  • Meet the Staff
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
The Goat Review
  • All
  • Annual Lists
  • Crypts of the Unknown
  • Live Report
  • Review
  • Special Feature
  • State of the Blog
  • Weekly Circulars

Moisson Livide – Sent Empèri Gascon Review

May 17, 2024May 16, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Folk metal is typically one of the more repellent genres of metal according to Cosmo’s tastes. But will Moisson Livide, with their more extreme edge to what is normally very power metal-forward folk metal be able to melt his blackened bat heart?

Read more
  • Review

Crawl – Altar of Disgust Review

May 3, 2024May 2, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Having listened to an obscene amount of death metal, a lot of it including Swedeath over the years, I’ve reached a point in my metal journey where I see a new Swedeath album and groan, because it’s most likely going to be another band beating an extremely dead horse. Dead horses makes Cosmo mad!

Read more
  • Review

Engulfed – Unearthly Litanies of Despair Review

April 26, 2024April 24, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Sometimes, all the body needs is good old-fashioned, no-nonsense, no-frills death metal. Thankfully, Turkish death metal horde Engulfed has exactly what the doctor ordered: riffs, cool solos, more riffs, an evil atmosphere, and even more riffs. It’s easy to please those who seek the skeeze.

Read more
  • Review

Replicant – Infinite Mortality Review

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Death metal nowadays covers so much ground as a tag. You have your classic veterans, modern media darlings, weirdos trying something totally different—all death metal! So where does Replicant fit into this? Well they’re more than just another skin job…

Read more
  • Review

Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations Review

April 11, 2024April 9, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Offering the listener a few seconds of respite before annihilating them with megalithic riffs, opener “Rusted Madness Tethering Misbegotten Haruspices” does a fantastic job setting the tone for the rest of the album: biblical-level annihilation. Riffs on riffs on riffs are the order of the day here! Needless to say, Cosmo is very excited about this one.

Read more
  • Review

Manasseh – Tunneling to Paradiso Review

April 10, 2024April 9, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Manasseh, a new dark ambient/folk project spearheaded by Patrick Brown (Herxheim, ex-Howls of Ebb), seeks to be a meditative piece that portrays a soundscape of someone digging down to paradise on their debut record Tunneling to Paradiso. But will this tunnel lead to auditory bliss or despondency?

Read more
  • Review

Acathexis – Immerse Review

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

For those going into Immerse and expecting a riff-driven black metal album, prepare to be disappointed. Acathexis has a unique sound that sets them apart from other black metal bands—a crushing, comforting cocoon of bleakness that completely and utterly envelops the listener. Explosively meditative for black metal bats?

Read more
  • Review

Vorga – Beyond the Palest Star Review

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

I was pretty excited when Vorga’s sophomore album was announced. Sporting another stellar cover art by Adam Burke, it looked to be a direct continuation of their debut. However, it seems that along the way, there were a few mishaps. Will their new output pale in comparison?

Read more
  • Review

Aberration – Refracture Review

March 21, 2024March 20, 2024 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Aberration specializes in caustic, spiteful blackened death metal that seeks to crush you into a paste over the runtime. The debut LP is akin to stepping up to bat for the first time, so, how far does Aberration knock the proverbial ball?

Read more
  • Review

Posts navigation

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 11 Next Posts»

Unlock the Crypts

Crypts of the Unknown: Capilla Ardiente – The Siege

Current Obsessions

Ritual Ascension – Profanation of the Adamic Covenant Review

Vacant Moley – The Programmed Obsolescence of Your Kind Review

Morbific – Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh Review

Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment

Act of Impalement – Profane Altar Review

©  Brought to you by Gerolsteiner.