Goatblood – Adoration of Blasphemy and War

Goatblood is a blackened death metal band hailing from Germany! Like most good black metal bands, this particular act sticks with themes such as evil, devil worship and desecrating everything that is holy. Like most good death metal, they keep the music ultra heavy, fast and sinister. Goatblood care not about production and overly worked mastering, these guys just want to fuck you in the ass with a barbed inverted cross…..and laugh while doing it. Adoration of Blasphemy and War is their debut release and they are out for blood.

Goatblood is really disgusting lo-fi death metal in it’s purest form. Lyrics and imagery is nothing but destroying god and everything involved with it. The rough vocals and guitar riffs rules all while the drums are unfortunately stuck in the back with a bad sound. The overall sound of Goatblood’s Adoration of Blasphemy and War is a cloudy storm of evil, hatred and death. Music is generally quick with short song times. Some songs do slow down the tempo and provide some sludgy menacing moments from time to time, but for the most part expect to be headbanging most of the time.

Most of the songs on Adoration of Blasphemy and War sound the same, which trades off good consistency for mind numbing repetition as they tend to just blend together one after another. Sudden endings to songs and unorthodox song writing creates some weird moments on the album but they work out in the end.

Goatblood’s debut album Adoration of Blasphemy and War is a decent release, but bad drum sound and novice song writing holds this release back. Also, the over the top “I’m trying to be as evil as possible” thing is almost humorous more so than it is to be taken seriously. However, this album is packed with a shit ton of good riffs which is a good thing if you can get past the tin snare and bashing cymbal sounds. I’ve heard worse but it’s still pretty bad.

6.5 out of 10

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