★★★★★
A side of New Orleans not getting much play on
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-08-21
★★★★★
Metal in general is not a genre for the meek. Thrash and speed metal, two of the myriad subgenres within the broader umbrella genre too enamored of subgenres, micro-genres, and general nit-picking, prove exhausting listening experiences as they race along at breakneck tempos, often on the very edge of control, careening along the edge of a blackened abyss...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-07-30
★★★★★
Between the reunion of local heroes EyeHateGod to the release of new albums from Crowbar and Corrosion of Conformity, the New Orleans sludge scene has been especially active as of late. Previously propelled by the slow chug of their peers, the Delta sludge wave now meanders into turbid waters with the release of Constricting Rage of the Merciless, the latest full-length from Goatwhore and the follow-up to 2012's Blood for the Master...
- pitchfork.com
2014-07-22
★★★★★
When an extreme metal outfit secures a loyal following, there's no need to upset the applecart -- even if the apples are as rotten and decomposed as the bodies littering their lyrics. Slayer, Cannibal Corpse and Cradle of Filth learned this lesson over the decades. And New Orleans-based Goatwhore are embracing the same don't-fix-what-isn't-broken approach for their sixth album Constricting Rage of the Merciless, which offers yet another skillful hybrid of thrash, death metal and black metal...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-07-16
★★★★★
Over the complex, intensely storied 16 years of their career, New Orleans based black metallers Goatwhore have been in a constant state of transformation. While their black and death metal core has remained intact, they have accrued swamp metal sludginess, hissing acidity and the wild violence of thrash, consistently eschewing genre restrictions...
- exclaim.ca
2014-07-08
★★★★★
When I laughed upon seeing the album art for Goatwhore's newest album, I thought to myself, "This probably isn't a good start." The band's occultic take on the Eucharist (rightly) won't make most people chuckle, but for me, the cover represented everything I don't like about black-metal, namely the cliched depictions of occulticism that makes people so hesitant to engage in the genre in the first place...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-05
★★★★★
Knowing Goatwhore are fifteen years and five albums into their career belies their underground ranking in the metal world. Their New Orleans blackened death metal has all the right attributes, sitting proudly on a cold black throne and violently preaching lyrics drowned in blasphemy. Backed by aggressive blast beats and freakishly extreme riffs, it's an oddity that such a band haven't graduated to the same levels as some of their peers - Behemoth, Anaal Nathrakh and Amon Amarth to name a few...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2012-03-22
★★★★★
"The band pulls from its sincere admiration for earlier metal acts like Judas Priest and Hellhammer and mixes it masterfully with Goatwhore's particular brand of fierce and strict black metal." Goatwhore's fifth release definitely has a more varied sound than previous albums. The band pulls from its sincere admiration for earlier metal acts like Judas Priest and Hellhammer and mixes it masterfully with Goatwhore's particular brand of fierce and strict black metal...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-03-06
★★★★★
It's been fun watching Goatwhore over the course of their five albums. What started as a novel black metal side-project from some prominent New Orleans metal dudes, most notably Soilent Green vocalist Ben Falgoust, has slowly morphed into a band certainly good enough to be Falgoust's main breadwinner, and as the production budgets have grown, so have the old-school death/thrash elements, as well as the Lemmy-esque swagger...
- exclaim.ca
2012-02-23
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