Showing posts with label Goats of Doom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goats of Doom. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2019

Review Round Up: 12/27/19

A Hard Pill To Swallow by Quasarborn (DIY) 1/24/20

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

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

LP Review: "Rukous" by Goats of Doom

Rukous
Goats of Doom. Well, it's been a minute since I've had a new doom metal record punch me in the gut with its slowness and intelligible vocals.

Oh that tuned down vibrato.

Welp, that's not what this album by Goats of Doom is. Apparently, Goats of Doom has chosen a name intended to throw us all amiss and think they're something they're not.

But, the thing about that is, what is Goats of Doom? That's where things get a little bit confusing. During the first track, it would be easy to call them an atmospheric black metal band.

As the record spins, Goats of Doom show several more sides of their art. There are even times when I would have to call this Blackened Folk Metal, but the one place they never tread, doom metal. There's nothing doom about this record.

It is a great disc that crushes it from top to bottom. The changing of timbres and sub-genres keeps this whole album fresh and exciting.

Release 12/7/18 FACEBOOK BANDCAMP