Goatlord (album)
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1991 , 1996 |
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| Label (s) | Moonfog Productions (FOG 013) | |||
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CD, LP |
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10 |
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37:50 |
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Darkthrone |
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Goatlord is the seventh album by the Norwegian band Darkthrone .
History of origin
After the debut album Soulside Journey , the band recorded more tracks in 1991 while evolving from a death to a black metal band. In the course of this development, Darkthrone discarded the recordings and recorded the album A Blaze in the Northern Sky in the summer of 1991 , which was released in 1992; the band assumed at the time that they would never release Goatlord . Some of the riffs were used on other albums.
The Goatlord recordings from 1991 were instrumental, the vocal tracks were created later and, according to drummer Fenriz, are probably more theatrical than they would have been in 1991. Fenriz told the Norwegian magazine Nordic Vision that 85 percent of the lyrics were written in autumn 1990, only a few passages of the last two songs were written in 1994; In the biography on the label Peaceville Records, however, it is stated that most of the lyrics come from the album Under a Funeral Moon .
The vocals, which are often considered female, come from the drummer Fenriz. Satyr, singer of the band Satyricon , contributed the first scream to Rex and Sadomasochistic Rites . On his label Moonfog Productions he released the song Green Cave Float in 1996 on the compilation Crusade From the North and in the same year also the album itself.
The original instrumental version of Goatlord was released in 2008 as part of the Frostland Tapes compilation on Peaceville Records.
Track list
- Rex - 3:48
- Pure Demoniac Blessing - 2:35
- (The) Grimness of Which Sheperds Mourn - 4:23
- Sadomasochistic Rites - 4:04
- As Desertshadows - 4:42
- In His Lovely Kingdom - 3:24
- Black Daimon - 3:50
- Toward (s) the Thornfields - 3:37
- (Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin - 3:25
- Green Cave Float - 4:02
Texts
Rex ( lat. King ) is based on the text to Crossing the Triangle of Flames from the album Under a Funeral Moon and is written from the perspective of Lucifer , the light-bringer. He speaks of visions that he had enveloped in the cold, and announces that he will bring light and pride ( "I am Lucifer, I bring you light and pride" ). He is characterized as "the wolf in the darkest scene" .
The lyrics to Pure Demoniac Blessing , (The) Grimness of Which Sheperds Mourn and Sadomasochistic Rites are based on the ones to Summer of the Diabolical Holocaust . In Pure Demoniac Blessing , a dragon that can be identified with Satan stands in front of the speaker, who announces fornication with the beast (from the song Crossing the Triangle of Flames ) and demands that he possess him . In (The) Grimness of Which Sheperds Mourn the speaker stands alone in a valley and suffers from the sparks of starlight. Therefore he closes his eyes and sees the trident more clearly than ever before him, reaches for hell and thus arrives at freedom. In Sadomasochistic Rites , the dead fall from the sky who are too emaciated to survive the fall. The speaker expects to receive pleasure and pain:
"I bend to receive
The lust and pain
Beat me Jesus
And we will win"
"I bend to receive
the pleasure and pain
hit me, Jesus
and we will win"
As Desertshadows and In His Lovely Kingdom are based on The Dance of Eternal Shadows . In As Desertshadows , a visual hell is adopted to satisfaction and whores are raped. The speaker takes pleasure in it while dark shadows dance and burn in his eyes and his soul goes down. In His Lovely Kingdom the apocalypse is conjured up, the speaker is ready for the god from below (by which Satan is meant) who is supposed to enter his body. He searches for a grave until he feels weak, but feels fire within himself, Satan and his kingdom:
"But there's fire
In my heart, in my eyes
In his body, in his eyes
And in his lovely kingdom"
"But there is fire
in my heart, in my eyes,
in his body, in his eyes
and in his glorious realm"
The lyrics to Black Daimon are not from the album Under a Funeral Moon . It is about the longing for the "other side" that the speaker discovered years ago. He asks demons and evil to take possession of him. Although he is alive, his truth is dead ( "We're alive / But our truth is dead" ).
The lyrics to Toward (s) the Thornfields , (Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin and Green Cave Float are also not from the album Under a Funeral Moon .
style
The Nordic Vision characterizes Goatlord as original, but primitive Death Metal with a demo sound. SirLordDoom from metal-district.de sees a strong autopsy and Paradise Lost influence in the material . For Jonathan Jancsary of metalnews.de there is a similarity to Darkthrone's debut album Soulside Journey , "only much rougher and mangier, because it is a rehearsal" .
reception
SirLordDoom from metal-district.de criticized the production in his review of the demo version on Frostland Tapes , as Goatlord represents the “culmination of the development of DARKTHRONES in the direction of morbid Death / Doom Metals ” . He describes the contained pieces as "uncut rough diamonds of wonderfully cruel slowdeathmetals" and praised the mood that he describes as bestial that is created by the riffs. For Rüdiger Stehle from Powermetal.de , the experimental Death Metal on Goatlord is "more of a musical historical interest than that it would really knock anyone off their feet today" . In a cover version of Green Cave Float by the band Dødheimsgard, Turov from the Vönger music magazine criticized "[w] crazy, almost bizarre guitar tracks" , which make this very slow song together with the polyphonic singing "a pure nerve killer" .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Peaceville Artists. Peaceville Records , archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; accessed on January 11, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e Goatlord on the Dark Throne . In: Nordic Vision . No. 8 , 1997, pp. 37 ( nordicvisionmag.com [accessed January 11, 2010]).
- ↑ a b SirLordDoom: DARKTHRONE - Frostland Tapes. (No longer available online.) Metal-district.de, June 17, 2008, archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; Retrieved January 21, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jonathan Jancsary: Darkthrone - Frostland Tapes. metalnews, July 22, 2008, accessed January 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Rüdiger Stehle: Darkthrone / Frostland Tapes. Powermetal.de , July 23, 2008, accessed on January 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Turov: Darkthrone Holy Darkthrone # Eight Norwegian Bands Paying Tribute. Vönger Musikmagazin, May 28, 2005, accessed on January 21, 2010 .
Soulside Journey (1991) | A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) | Under a Funeral Moon (1993) | Transilvanian Hunger (1994) | Panzerfaust (1995) | Total Death (1996) | Goatlord (1996) | Ravishing Grimness (1999) | Plaguewielder (2001) | Hate Them (2003) | Sardonic Wrath (2004) | The Cult Is Alive (2006) | FOAD (2007) | Dark Thrones and Black Flags (2008) | Circle the Wagons (2010) | The Underground Resistance (2013)