Description

Swedish pressed music cassette. Black cassette with white text. Limited 100 copies

Seems like Joel Grind, the force behind the old school retro thrash band Toxic Holocaust, felt a burning urge to craft this hugely lethal collection of thrash anthems under this eponymous project name. The Yellowgoat Sessions is filled with dirty, low-tech, mega-primitive, Neanderthal thrash that sounds as if it was meant to be on the original Bathory album. In fact, the production sounds identical to that album, right down to the twangy, trebly guitar sound (go spin the song War off that album to get an idea what I mean). The music can also be compared to the weird Motorhead-worshipping stuff that modern-day Darkthrone has been spewing out, but this is way more pissed off, full of venom (literally and figuratively) and steeped in nutsackitude. It’s punky, crude, sloppy, choppy and about as metal as metal gets. This collection of eight songs work best as a whole and none of them is weak or dull. It isn’t easy to make thrash this much fun or hooky, but Joel Grind managed it somehow. Most of the tracks run only two or three minutes, so they never overstay their welcome and the whole thing lasts a scant twenty-five minutes including intro and outro. That feels like the perfect length too, since anything longer might begin to trigger thrash fatigue. What Joel though whould be just a fun messing around session over one weekend turned out to be an amazing session that really is the pulse of what underground metal is all about. If you miss the primordial days of black and thrash metal and want music like Bathory, early Sodom or the demo days of Toxic Holocaust then The Yellowgoat Sessions is a must. If you are looking for over-produced shit that passes as metal today this is NOT for you.

Track list:
1. Ascension
2. Hell’s Master Of Hell
3. Vengeance Spell
4. Foul Spirit Within
5. Cross Damnation
6. Grave Encounters
7. Black Order
8. The Eternal One
9. Hail To Cruelty
10. Descension