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/:: Artist :: Goatpenis / Demonic Apparition ::\
:: Album :: United in Demonic Warfare ::
:: Year :: 2021 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: CD . ::
:: Label :: Deathrash Armageddon R.date :: 2024-09-16 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: DA13-084 S.date :: 2021-05-26 __::_
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/: Encoder :: LAME 3.100 -V0 :\
..: Bitrate :: avg. 280kbps :..
. Quality :: 44.1 kHz/Joint Stereo .
. Size :: 76.64 MB .
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:: 1. Goatpenis - Hecatomb (Intro) 1:54 ::
:: 2. Goatpenis - Fatal Equinox (Perpetual Resplendence) 2:48 ::
:: 3. Goatpenis - MGM-29 Sergeant 4:03 ::
:: 4. Goatpenis - Frog-7 Missiles 3:13 ::
:: 5. Goatpenis - Combustion Light Gas Gun 4:59 ::
:: 6. Goatpenis - Missiles Orchestra (Outro) 0:57 ::
:: 7. Demonic Apparition - Horned Moon 3:01 ::
:: 8. Demonic Apparition - Circling Hyenas 4:27 ::
:: 9. Demonic Apparition - Totally Fucking Annihilated 2:40 ::
:: 10. Demonic Apparition - The Black Witch 2:46 ::
:: 11. Demonic Apparition - Teeming Demons (Behold) 1:09 ::
:: 12. Demonic Apparition - As the Hearse Rolls By 3:45 ::
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:: After an intro of voices, screaming and indistinct growling, ::
:: Goatpenis burst forth with a track that is somewhere in the ::
:: vicinity of decent, to be honest. It has a cool Marduk-ish ::
:: guitar riff, and one of the things I always did appreciate ::
:: about the band were the pitched vocals. The terrible sounding ::
:: triggered percussion gives us lots of blast beats and double ::
:: kick, but throughout it sounds as if the drummer only barely ::
:: manages to keep up with the music. The compositions really ::
:: aren't that great either, relying on too much repetition, and ::
:: the guitars sound oddly melodic in places, which undermines any ::
:: sense of aggression or menace the music might at times exude. ::
:: They do manage to give the music some of that old school mid ::
:: 90's black metal spirit in the vein of early Enthroned and ::
:: Marduk, but this feeling only seldom lasts, mostly because of ::
:: the iffy execution of the music, but the flatly triggered ::
:: percussion also does not help. The good riffs manage to save ::
:: some of the furniture here, but as I pointed out above, they ::
:: get weirdly melodic at times, and that is nowhere as blatant as ::
:: in "Combustion Light Gas Gun (Glgg)". If the idea of Helloween ::
:: (or any band in that style, really) playing 90's black metal ::
:: really speaks to you, this might be your thing, but I get ::
:: thoroughly annoyed by this track. So no, Goatpenis does on this ::
:: release more or less what I expect from them, and that is ::
:: frankly not much. ::
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:: Good thing that Demonic Apparition picks up the mantle after ::
:: Goatpenis, because they manage to excite me a bit more. Tagged ::
:: as a black/death metal band, they do exactly that, but they ::
:: reach further back into time with their influences, waaaaaay ::
:: back in time, actually. That old school Blasphemy and old ::
:: Beherit style is there for sure, but for most time they ::
:: reminded me of late 80's/early 90's grindcore/death metal bands ::
:: such as Blood, Phlegm, Naked Whipper, Agathocles, Impetigo, and ::
:: even the early Necrophagia stuff. This for most part because of ::
:: the growling vocals, simple guitar riffs, loose execution of ::
:: the music, and even a good helping of hardcore punk elements, ::
:: lifted from the old albums of Black Flag and Circle Jerks. ::
:: These tracks are poured into a grainy, somewhat sloppy ::
:: production, and has as most prominent aspects vocals, guitars ::
:: and a natural sounding percussion that seems to go up and down ::
:: in the songs during proceedings. This is quite the abrasive ::
:: combination, it has to be said. It sounds primitive and ::
:: chaotic, but not everything works as well. Especially the punk ::
:: influence sounds oddly out of place at times, but for most ::
:: part, Demonic Apparition manages well enough, in my opinion. ::
:: I've heard this type of stuff better before, but I can still ::
:: appreciate the underground feel that this band emanates, and ::
:: their willingness to go beyond simple Blasphemy worship is also ::
:: a plus in my book. ::
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