Set to be released
blasphemously on Christmas Eve 2016, DUNKELHEIT
PRODUKTIONEN is proud to present the highly
anticipated second album of Germany's GOATBLOOD,
Veneration of Armageddon. For the past five years,
this chains- and bullet-bedecked power-trio have
been polluting the metal underground with their
belligerent brand of bestial black/death. A handful
of demos as well as a split were vomited forth
before GOATBLOOD's momentous debut album, Adoration
of War and Blasphemy, in 2015. Ever aptly titled,
Adoration of War and Blasphemy soundly put the
band on the international map, and proved that new,
gnarly twists can be made to the rigorous bestial
metal template.
Alas, with a few more ensuing splits, time has come
for the second GOATBLOOD album, equally aptly titled
Veneration of Armageddon. If Adoration of War and
Blasphemy pushed the envelope and punished the
(un)willing listener, then Veneration of Armageddon
gleefully takes that garish assault one step
further. Across 18 tracks in a swift 'n' salacious
37 minutes, GOATBLOOD explode forth with a pulsing,
pestilent savagery from which there is no reprieve.
It's dank and disgusting, dungeon-toned and
treacherous, whipping the listener into a hellish,
hallucinogenic trance. And yet, for however
unrelenting all these songs are, Veneration of
Armageddon retains a rare, ever-elusive catchiness,
GOATBLOOD here nodding as much to nascent grindcore
like early Blood, Extreme Noise Terror, and Doom as
they do Blasphemy, Beherit, and Archgoat. In other
words, it's simply everything that ingratiated
Adoration of War and Blasphemy to the dieharder
faithful, but taken to more extremes - and extremely
memorable, in the process. Desecrate the birth of a
bastard hobo with Veneration of Armageddon! (Text by
Nathan Birk)