Who can forget Goatwhore? From Sammy Duet's quip on the Relapse Records message board so long ago "I'm going to start a band and call it Goatwhore" to today's mayhemic brutal machine, Louisiana's purveyors of musical insanity have bluntly carved a well-deserved niche for themselves within extreme metal's upper echelon. The band's latest offering, ConstrictingWho can forget Goatwhore? From Sammy Duet's quip on the Relapse Records message board so long ago "I'm going to start a band and call it Goatwhore" to today's mayhemic brutal machine, Louisiana's purveyors of musical insanity have bluntly carved a well-deserved niche for themselves within extreme metal's upper echelon. The band's latest offering, Constricting Rage of the Merciless, is ten songs of what we've come to know and love from the band: tunes that ethereally shift between black metal madness, death metal brutality, and thrash metal punishment, eschewing the light and goodness. Right from the start, the album is a skull cracker. Nicely produced, well mixed and mastered, uncontent to sit by the sidelines, this disc demands in-your-face presence. Loud, crisp, thick, and aurally assaulting, the mostly radio-friendly length tunes are, for the most part, pure goatwhoring bliss. Similar to their previous works, the disc is well-performed and clear: a nice mix of the 3 genres thrash, death, and black metal. The low growl is mixed with the higher abrasive range, presenting a 'dual vocal' approach. With heavy emphasis on tight riffs and neck-snapping tempo changes, the band remind listeners of bands ranging from Entombed to old Hellhammer or [...]
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