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Band Name: Goatwhore
Album Name: A Haunting Curse
Rating: 4.5 / 5 User Rating: 4.3 / 5
Label: Metal Blade
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Tracklist
1. Wear These Scars Of Testimony
2. Bloodletting Upon The Cloven Hoof
3. Alchemy Of The Black Sun Cult
4. My Eyes Are The Spears Of Chaos
5. In The Narrow Confines Of Defilement
6. Forever Consumed Oblivion
7. A Haunting Curse
8. Silence Marked By The Breaking Of Bone
9. Diabolical Submergence Of Rebirth
10. Of Ashen Slumber
11. I Avenge Myself
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New Orleans metal mongers Goatwhore return after yet another round of the much maligned outfit's infamous string of bad luck and catastrophe nearly behind them with A HAUNTING CURSE. Showcasing a decisively leaner and meaner demonstration of pure destruction, this metallic monstrosity doles out an album's worth of spellbindingly demonic delights from the opening chaos that is "Wear These Scars of Testimony'. Following black metal patterns of the finest from Europe's yesteryears and melding them with a slew of death metal nuances, this 11-track offering truly can be considered a crossover entity that misanthropes everywhere can agree on. Tracks like the foreboding "Forever Consumed Oblivion" incorporates the corpsepainted stomp of any respected Swedish troupe, while the guitars on "Diabolical Submergence of Rebirth" recapture the bleak vibes from the recesses of the underground black metal scene. Blast beats galore, foreboding musical gloom and doom passages, and evil throat-ripping vocals are staples across A HAUNTING CURSE, yet there's something more etheral propelling this latest foray into madness. Could it be vocalist Ben Falgoust's brush with death for the ump-teenth time, the wake of Hurricane Katrina's ravagings which delayed this release, or the fact that this album was recorded in a supposed haunted environment? No matter, because Goatwhore's latest disc is a vicious and visceral assault that any fan of modern malevolent metal needs to own.
Review by: mikesos
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