Goatwhore
| Goatwhore | |
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 Goatwhore at Party.San 2016 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) |
Black metal , death metal |
| founding | 1996 or 1997 as Kilgore |
| Website | goatwhore.net |
| Founding members | |
| Sammy Duet | |
guitar |
Ben Stout (until 2002) |
Drums |
Zak Nolan (until 2003) |
bass |
Patrick Bruders (until 2004) |
singing |
Jared Beniot (1997) |
| Current occupation | |
| Louis Benjamin Falgoust (since 1998) | |
| Sammy Duet | |
| James Harvey (since 2009) | |
| Zack Simmons (since 2004) | |
| former members | |
guitar |
Tim Holsinger (2002-2003) |
bass |
Nathan Bergeron (2004-2009) |
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Chart positions Explanation of the data |
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Goatwhore ( English 'goat whore') is an American black / death metal band from New Orleans , Louisiana .
history
The band was founded around 1996/97 under the name Kilgore by Sammy Duet (Ex- Acid Bath / Crowbar ) and Zak Nolan as a side project, while the band Acid Bath took a break. Duet and Noland made some demo recordings and devoted more time to Goatwhore after Acid Baths in 1997 following the loss of bassist Audie Pitre. The band recorded Ben Falgoust and Pat Bruders and was signed by Rotten Records.
In 2004 the band signed with Metal Blade Records .
In 2010 it was announced that the Goatwhore title Apocalyptic Havok would be included in the video game Splatterhouse (which is based on the 1988 game of the same name). In 2011, the announcement of the album Blood for the Master followed , which, like the two previous albums, was produced by Erik Rutan .
Music genre
On the debut album The Eclipse of Ages into Black , the band orientated itself primarily on the black metal pioneers Bathory and Venom in contrast to the "unreal, over-orchestrated dreams of Europe's contemporary black metallurgists ". The style of the band is compared by William York from Allmusic with that of European bands like Bathory, Celtic Frost and Darkthrone and the album is described as raw and underproduced with few highs and lows and guitar distortion close to ambient , which relies more on atmosphere than heaviness. However, the blastbeats are reminiscent of Grindcore and the riffs of Hardcore Punk , and the medium-tempo passages point to Goatwhore's roots in Southern Rock . As an exception, Invert the Virgin is reminiscent of hard rock .
On Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun , the band tried darker, less conventional sounds based on studying the effects of dark forces; The band moved stylistically away from traditional Black Metal, their music became less chaotic, with "more structure, depth and texture". The slower tempo of pieces like As the Sun Turns to Ash and Fires of the Judas Blood and their “eerie” interplay of vocals and guitar are reminiscent of Celtic Frost's Into the Pandemonium . Allmusic's John Serba described the album as similar to Satyricon's early works, but Americanized and with transitions into Death Metal and Doom Metal / Sludge in the tempo changes.
On A Haunting Curse , the band is still based on traditional black / death metal bands, but still sounds modern, with a spectrum from blast beats to death metal groove in medium tempo to Doom metal borrowings. Alex Henderson from Allmusic described Goatwhore in his review as the "opposite of symphonic black metal", the band remembers the punk , thrash metal and hardcore roots of black metal and also has American death metal, especially Florida death Metal , don't forget.
On Carving out the Eyes of God the Celtic Frost riffs are still central, but the style has become more thrashy, Shadow of a Rising Knife starts with a riff reminiscent of Motörhead . Justin M. Norton of About.com described the style as "dirty and direct" and a mixture of Celtic Frost, Venom's early works and Motörhead's catchiness, as well as a combination of the " crust-punk irascibility" of her early works with the slightly technical borrowings of A Haunting Curse and musical "stamps" as a result of their tours. Sammy Duet combines riffs à la Tom Warrior with “southern spice”.
Blood for the Master continues the mix of Black, Death and Motörhead influences, the riffs of the first tracks have also been compared to Overkill and Sepultura's early works.
While Sammy Duet says he does not think of anything when writing, "apart from my Lord and Master Satan ", but does not want to speak for Ben Falgoust, the latter points out that he himself is not bound to any kind of structure and no higher ones and believe in lower beings; he has a great interest in the occult and the dark things in life, but is not a satanist . He and Duet have different opinions, Duet is the satanic part of the band; he didn't bully Duet because he was a Satanist, that was his decision. They complemented each other, Duet never shy away from Falgoust's ideas. He told Rock Hard that Falgoust was more serious about the issue, and that they had different views, but that Duet was not a Satanist and Falgoust was a Christian, both of whom were opposed to organized religion. Morgan Y. Evans mentions in a conversation with Mike Gaspar of Moonspell that for the band Goatwhore, Satanism is about rebellion and the search for individual empowerment.
gallery
- Goathwhore, cast live at Party.San 2016
Louis Benjamin Falgoust
Sammy Duet
James Harvey
Zack Simmons
Discography
- 2000: The Eclipse of Ages into Black
- 2003: Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun
- 2006: A Haunting Curse
- 2009: Carving out the Eyes of God (US # 190)
- 2012: Blood for the Master
- 2014: Constricting Rage of the Merciless
- 2017: Vengeful Ascension
swell
- ↑ a b c d e f Goatwhore on MySpace Music ( Memento from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ US chart history
- ↑ Splatterhouse soundtrack is suitably scary .
- ↑ kual21: Goatwhore - Reveal New Album Title And Release Date .
- ^ William York: The Eclipse of Ages Into Black - Goatwhore .
- ^ John Serba: Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun - Goatwhore .
- ↑ Chad Bowar: Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse .
- ↑ Alex Henderson: A Haunting Curse - Goatwhore .
- ↑ Scott Alisoglu: GOATWHORE . Carving out the Eyes of God (Metal Blade) .
- ^ Justin M. Norton: Goatwhore Carving Out The Eyes Of God .
- ↑ ThrowinUpHorns: Goatwhore "Blood for the Master" .
- ^ Charl Liebknecht: Goatwhore - "Blood for the Master" .
- ↑ a b c d Rachel Jablonski, Mike Schlabsz: Goatwhore - Ben Falgoust ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ a b c Jackie Smit: Pedigree Butchery . CoC chats with Ben Falgoust of Goatwhore .
- ↑ Sebastian Schilling: GoatWhore . Believe what you want. In: Rock Hard . No. 327 , August 2014 ( online ). online ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Morgan Y. Evans: Moonspell ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. .
- ↑ US chart positions
Web links
- Official website (English)