GOAT SEMEN - Ego Svm Satana
April 14, 2015, 8 years ago
(Hells Headbangers)
Raging, barbaric Peruvian black/death of a very high quality awaits the listener who dares to get past this band's absurd name and venture into this, their long-in-the-making debut full-length. The band mainly pummels fast and hard and wild, the black/death venturing into crazed blackthrash at times, with the blackthrash wail of death even making a few appearances. Elsewhere, things get slow and horrible ("Hambre"), the band going low and sluggish and deep and ugly.
There's a great balance here of things being on the verge of just falling apart (seriously, the aforementioned, and awesome, "Hambre" is at points barely held together enough to be called a song), but at the same time, you can tell these guys know what they're doing. Not that this is tech or sophisticated in the least, which is precisely the point. Every time I listen to it I find myself zoning out in the bottom third, but maybe I just need to fully jump in and commit to the barbarism, leaving behind the relatively polite grind and death I'm so used to. I could think of worse places to make that commitment than Goat Semen. (Ugh... can we talk about changing that name now?)