The Goat Review presents an annual special: the year in review of death metal 2024. Your time is precious. We did the listening for you! Ho! Ho! BLEEEEEEEUUUUUGH!
Read moreThis Week In Metal, 2024 Week 48
Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Opeth, Defeated Sanity, Gaerea, and Fellowship, you can do that too! #MÅGA!
Read moreDefeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy Review
Scuttlegoat just knew Chronicles of Lunacy would be good, and it led him to almost being resigned to it — “I was not excited or looking forward to it, I simply accepted that it would be good”. Oh, the drum performance! Beating some sense into your liking…
Read moreCrypts of the Unknown: 2024 Vol. 1
On the Goat Review, we try to prop up the bands that need it most. The unsung heroes of the underground — the weird, the whacky and the extravagant all find a home here. This is a collection of all our Crypts posts between 01.01.2024 and 14.05.2024. Don’t mind the worms, they’re part of the charm.
Read moreArborescence of Wrath – Inferno Review
Arborescence of Wrath, a band adorned with members of Origin and Marduk, ventures into the realm of Technical Brutal Death Metal with their debut. Will their music soar above the sea of mediocrity, or drown into the pool of lacklustre blastfests?
Read moreInfecting the Swarm – Pulsing Coalescence Review
Infecting the Swarm claims to make music for fans of Disentomb, Defeated Sanity and Euphoric Defilement. Neither Disentomb nor Defeated Sanity comparisons apply fully. Rather, I feel the best comparison is likely Spain’s Wormed, whose dissonant, almost machine-like Brutal Death Metal approaches texture in a Brutal Death Metal context similarly to how Infecting the Swarm do it.
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