Finland, as if suffering from an inferiority complex due to the overarching influence of their Scandinavia neighbors, is home to some of the most fucked-up sounding, primitive, psychotic and overtly Satanic raw black metal on the planet. One of the lead practitioners of this approach is Archgoat.
The chords are few, the blast beats are lightening, the production murkey, and vocals gutteral. For any of my non-metal fan readers who wonder exactly what the fuck the difference between black and death metal is...well....all I'll say is that band is probably not for you. 'Whore of Babylon' is this band's best work; every song about Satan, every note chocked with evil intention. The production has a clarity that their other albums lack, whatever that's worth.
You have to have a weirdly refined taste in metal to appreciate this sort of devolved evil and demonic chortling. Yes, my master! YES!!!!!
Rating: 8 out of 10
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