Goatlord (album)

Goatlord
Demo album by Darkthrone
Released 24 October 1996
Recorded Norway
1991 (instruments)
1994 (vocals)
Genre Death metal
Black metal
Length 37:50
Label Moonfog
Producer Darkthrone
Darkthrone chronology

Total Death
(1996)		 Goatlord
(1996)		 Ravishing Grimness
(1999)

Goatlord is a demo album by Norwegian band Darkthrone, released in 1996.[1] The album was re released by Peaceville Records in 2011, with new artwork approved by the band and a second disc containing commentary from Fenriz and Nocturno Culto.

Background

Goatlord was written in 1990 as the follow-up to Darkthrone's death metal debut album, Soulside Journey,[1] and was recorded in late 1990 and early 1991 as an instrumental rehearsal tape.[2] The album was scrapped when the band changed style from death metal to black metal in favor of A Blaze in the Northern Sky.[1] Most of the lyrics for Goatlord were written in the autumn of 1990, with some additions in 1994 for the last two songs.[3] The vocals were recorded in 1994 by Fenriz.[1] The female-sounding vocals were also recorded by him, partly using pitch shifting.[1] Satyr of the band Satyricon is credited for the opening screams in "Rex" and "Sadomasochistic Rites".

Track listing

  1. "Rex" – 3:48
  2. "Pure Demoniac Blessing" – 2:35
  3. "(The) Grimness of Which Shepherds Mourn" – 4:23
  4. "Sadomasochistic Rites" – 4:04
  5. "As Desertshadows" – 4:42
  6. "In His Lovely Kingdom" – 3:24
  7. "Black Daimon" – 3:50
  8. "Toward(s) the Thornfields" – 3:37
  9. "(Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin" – 3:25
  10. "Green Cave Float" – 4:02

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 James (September 2009). "Darkthrone - Goatlord". Metal Reviews. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Peaceville Artists: Darkthrone". Peaceville Records. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Goatlord on the dark throne". Nordic Vision 8: 34. Winter 1997. Retrieved 1 August 2013.