How would a painter handle sound? Pretty damn well, it turns out. Mondestunken’s most defining feature is Alex Weber’s bass, a dynamic center-point which leads the songs on a drunken stroll, calling to mind the style of Aseitas or perhaps even the jazzy all out war of Sarmat’s debut album with its technical dissonance. But for all its flash, does it have its own style?
Read moreScuttlegoat’s Favorite Albums of 2023
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Read moreImago Resonantia – Celebrating the Visuals of Metal in 2023
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Celebrating the Visuals of Metal in 2023. Sometimes visual art speaks louder than riffs.
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Read moreBekor Qilish – The Flesh Of A New God Review
The songs on The Flesh of a New God cycle through ideas like Blackened Death Metal à la Veilburner coupled with desperately hopeful synths that evoke Angelo Badalamenti, Jazz Fusion bits that recall their label mates Sarmat and Afterbirth-like left-field digressions into uplifting melodies. Voidhanger knows how to pick ’em this year. Now if just Billie Eilish would answer their call for a Bekor Qilish feat Billie Eilish collab…
Read moreSarmat – Determined to Strike Review
After Sarmat’s debut EP surprisingly contained a Pokémon theme cover (and low-key blew my mind in the process), I had high hopes that the full-length would repeat this in a similarly sneaky way. Would other video game themes be covered, possibly similarly obscure ones? Gotta strike ’em all?
Read moreSarmat – Dubious Disk Review
Dubious Disk is a curious case of an EP. A lot of what I read in the blurb I find hard to believe and in revisiting this album multiple times, more and more surprising things came to light. So, did our Goat solve this EP’s mystery?
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