It's always fun to learn about bands from other parts of the world that we don't always associate with heavy music. Quasarborn is from Serbia. It only makes sense that there's a heavy music scene over there.
It's ever so common for Metalcore bands to say that they're undefinable and that they straddle so many worlds, but this isn't metalcore. It's like that. This is somewhere between whatever sort of metal Ozzy Osbourne was and death metal.
The guitars give me a sort of Zakk Wylde vibe actually, but Zakk from Ozzy, not from Black Label Society. (Don't get me going.) They have that sort of progressive bent where the riffs change up frequently, but it's never overly taxing.
Their usage of dynamic changes from the vocals to the guitars make ear fatigue something you don't even have to think about.
All in all good songwriting, great playing, and some impassioned vocals make for a fun, if not revolutionary listen.
Rating B- Bandcamp Facebook
Beginning at the beginning, if you have named your band Goat(blank) or (blank)goat, I'm immediately interested in what you have to say.
Unfortunately goat is the new black, so there's been a lot of listening lately. There are a fair number of bands that don't trodden the new ground and the current day is seemingly missing out on that.
But does that really matter? It's ok for bands to be conventional and still be awesome. Goatblood have crafted a dynamic black(ish) goat metal album. That's it. We're starting a new subgenre in order to create even more defined ones. This is blackend death goat metal.
Possibly the best blackened goat death metal release of the decade! Also, doesn't that sound delicious? Perhaps make it in a curry sauce. This is the kind of record if you've had a long and hard day...just turn it on and crank it up.
It's heavy. It's dark. It gets into your bones.
Rating: A Bandcamp Facebook
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| Goats of Doom |
There's a new policy at Glacially Musical and that's to support the holy living crap out of bands with the word Goat in their name. So, in today's roundup, I've got a pair of goats for you.
Their name is a misnomer as they're not a doom metal band or even occult. They're an angry as all get out black metal band from Finland.
All at once the group sounds like three different songs are being played simultaneously. That's what makes this band so difficult to place. It's like the Sorting Hat with Harry Potter right here.
The vocals are pure chaos. Rarely are they in time and never are they melodic. They're black metal cries that'll raise the hairs on your neck. There appears to be two schools of thought on the guitars and they don't get along.
There's the melodically melancholy along cutting deeply into the abrasive walls of extremity. The melodic playing locks straight in with the drums giving the band a swinging sound.
Difficult...this whole album is difficult....but....
If there were a band of goats out there causing doom and destruction to the world, this is probably what they would sound like. You'll probably never hear anything else like it.
Rating A- Preorder Facebook
When the duo bands became all the rage, that idea really made sense. It's easier to get two folks into one room, but Into Pandemonium? Six people.
Imagine if Iron Maiden were an extreme metal band...there's probably a good correlation in there somewhere.
When there's so much going on in a song, what with the 17 dozen band members and such, it's easy to create a massive wall of noise that will bring all of the brutality the kids are looking for, but none of that melody or song craft that maybe I'm looking for.
That's why this is great. The songs are absolutely awesome. Certainly there are low key, and not so low key, flexing going on, but it is progressive metal.... But that being said, there's no excessively over the top moments.
This is just a heavy as fuck EP and it makes me want the full length even more.
Rating: B+ Facebook
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