Description

While most intense bands seem to unload their best work and ideas on their initial three releases or so, N’Awlins Goatwhore has been aging like a fine wine. The band has been churning out its blackened emanations for two decades now, and with album number seven, Vengeful Ascension, its released its best work to date. The quartet has unquestionably improved its songwriting over time. There are more hooks, and the music is catchier all around, while continuing to make clear references to early Celtic Frost and Hellhammer without being plagiaristic. But with Vengeful Ascension, Goatwhore has synthesized that element of maturity and growth, if you will, with the ominous fracas that drove the band’s early work, like 2000’s The Eclipse Of Ages Into Black and 2003’s Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun. Goatwhore was never a pure black metal band. Indeed, the group has been filling its cauldron with black, thrash, death, doom and even a dash of Louisiana sludge for good measure. Vengeful Ascension isn’t anything new, yet it doesn’t feel like more of the same. Simply put, the band has become better, and its music is even more memorable. It’s impressive for a band this deep into its career to continue to improve. Goatwhore shows no signs of slowing down and hanging up its blackened hooves. To the contrary, Vengeful Ascension proves that the band is firing on all cylinders, standing tall as one of extreme metal’s leading bands.

Track list:
1. Forsaken
2. Under The Flesh Into The Soul
3. Vengeful Ascension
4. Chaos Arcane
5. Where The Sun Is Silent
6. Drowned In Grim Rebirth
7. Abandon Indoctrination
8. Mankind Will Have No Mercy
9. Decayed Omen Reborn
10. Those Who Denied Gods Will