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GoatWar - We Are Heretics
Release: 2005Label: Sardonic Wrath Records
By: Anders
Posted: Jul 11, 2006
This band hails from Canada and delivers harsh and grim black metal, the kind of black metal that'll make small kids cry, old people shiver of fear and fans of nowadays black metal trend burst into repulsions.
The base of the tracks is an inhumanly distorted and noisy guitar, it delivers its disharmonic riffs in an inferno of dimensions, the guitar taints the dark and eerie atmosphere and slowly drives the music forward. Most of the riffs are cold and create goosebumps down ones back. The guitar goes from straight ahead riffing in some songs, to delivering pure ambient noise in others, both ways work fine, though I find more emphasis when the disharmonic noise hits my ears and messes with my mind. The drumming goes from keeping the rhythm, to delivering more of a ritualistic kind of percussion, evil and breaking beats, drawing one in, enchanting while still being dark and sinister. The vocals consist of various wicked and haunted screams, one sicker than the other, the third more insane than the fourth. The many, once in a while layered, screams works really well and induces a feeling of emptiness, despair and pure hatred, vocals from the realm beyond or even further away. The few times the bass are used, or at least shines through the sound picture, its rumblings are hypnotizing and comforting, like the tremulous ground during a violent thunderstorm.
"We Are Heretics" is nowhere easy-listening metal and neither easy to get into, it demands a lot of spins and a lot of dedication, and the right mood. The music works both on the mind and soul, due to all the ritualistic angles there are in the music. The raw and noisy guitar sound, the overall noisy and rumbling production doesn't make it easier to get beneath the music. Though one is heavily rewarded when the needed time has been spend on the album. Darkness and hate flows from the speakers, into the mind and body, the ritualistic rumblings takes one away to another void, an ambient travel to unknown levels of ones reality, tormenting black metal delivered in a noisy, yet ambient package. It will be a big lie to say this album and music is for all, it is for the few and initiated, no doubt about that, are you amongst them?
The base of the tracks is an inhumanly distorted and noisy guitar, it delivers its disharmonic riffs in an inferno of dimensions, the guitar taints the dark and eerie atmosphere and slowly drives the music forward. Most of the riffs are cold and create goosebumps down ones back. The guitar goes from straight ahead riffing in some songs, to delivering pure ambient noise in others, both ways work fine, though I find more emphasis when the disharmonic noise hits my ears and messes with my mind. The drumming goes from keeping the rhythm, to delivering more of a ritualistic kind of percussion, evil and breaking beats, drawing one in, enchanting while still being dark and sinister. The vocals consist of various wicked and haunted screams, one sicker than the other, the third more insane than the fourth. The many, once in a while layered, screams works really well and induces a feeling of emptiness, despair and pure hatred, vocals from the realm beyond or even further away. The few times the bass are used, or at least shines through the sound picture, its rumblings are hypnotizing and comforting, like the tremulous ground during a violent thunderstorm.
"We Are Heretics" is nowhere easy-listening metal and neither easy to get into, it demands a lot of spins and a lot of dedication, and the right mood. The music works both on the mind and soul, due to all the ritualistic angles there are in the music. The raw and noisy guitar sound, the overall noisy and rumbling production doesn't make it easier to get beneath the music. Though one is heavily rewarded when the needed time has been spend on the album. Darkness and hate flows from the speakers, into the mind and body, the ritualistic rumblings takes one away to another void, an ambient travel to unknown levels of ones reality, tormenting black metal delivered in a noisy, yet ambient package. It will be a big lie to say this album and music is for all, it is for the few and initiated, no doubt about that, are you amongst them?
Rating: 8½/10
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