{"id":103628,"date":"2024-07-22T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103628"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:15:39","slug":"ep-review-goatrocity-atrocity-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-goatrocity-atrocity-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"GOATROCITY – Atrocity Of God EP (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOATROCITY
Atrocity Of God EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it just a bit cringeworthy that a Romanian black-thrash act has a song called \u2018True Norwegian Black Metal\u2019? The EP also attempts to look like Blasphemy while sounding like Bathory\u2019s bastard child with South American black metal. However, in spite of the familiarity of influences this is still enjoyable blasphemous noise that does exactly what it\u2019s supposed to, and that\u2019s pretend to conjure evil spirits by grasping and wheezing through cloying thick smoke and fibres of rust.<\/p>\n

Little imagination goes into constructing songs such as \u2018Black Magic Ritual\u2019 which is a draught in a reputedly haunted house; creaking floorboards, banging doors and violent winds form like manifestations of vintage Bathory. \u2018Book Of The Dead\u2019 is zipping black speed metal that channels early Teutonic phase, especially in the vocal snaps. There\u2019s a tasty hook in there among the barbed wire and stench of alcohol stained leather.<\/p>\n

\u2018True Norwegian Black Metal\u2019 and \u2018Truth\u2019 are a pair of despicable numbers bolstered by their spine of hissing percussion and rapid fire dungeon axe work. There\u2019s next to no mid-tempo thought pattern, although the title track wheezes like some long forgotten New Wave Of British Heavy Metal cut daubed in oil.<\/p>\n

Goatrocity set out to be nasty and gnarly and they have achieved their aim under the glow of an infernal moon.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOATROCITYAtrocity Of God EP Self-released (2024)Rating: 7\/10 Isn\u2019t it just a bit cringeworthy that a Romanian black-thrash act has a song called \u2018True Norwegian Black Metal\u2019? The EP also attempts to look like Blasphemy while sounding like Bathory\u2019s bastard child with South American black metal. However, in spite of the familiarity of influences this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-goatrocity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103634,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103628\/revisions\/103634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}