Nightbringer, Lightbringer by Archgoat

Now in their 37th year of blasphemous brutality, Finnish Black Metal iconoclasts ARCHGOAT remain one of the most single-minded and relentlessly visceral bands in extreme music.

New album "Nightbringer, Lightbringer" once again taps into the guts of ancient evil to unearth a noxious stench of horror. Undiminished and eternal, the band's patented synthesis of mystical first wave Black/Death Metal, Punk hostility, primal Thrash and bestial Grindcore is destructive as ever in its magickal raw power.

This time around a slightly less-dank production ensures each putrid note is assimilated and felt. Mind-altering atmospherics and cryptic synth embellishments remain a feature, with some grandly melodic leads and – gasp – lower gain arpeggios in place for fleeting relief before the returning waves of pummelling satanic violence.

Uncompromising, unaffected, unbowed, and capped with another inimitable cover from the legendary Chris Moyen, this is pure ARCHGOAT: corrupted, devastating and - considering the dissolving certainties around us - still necessary.

After their legendary 1994 EP “Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)," ARCHGOAT vanished from the scene for over a decade. In 2004, the gates of Hell opened anew and saw ARCHGOAT return with their bestial blend of blackened death only sharpened by the ravages of time.
Black metal changed, ARCHGOAT did not, and it is their capable hands that shall carry the black flame forward for years to come.

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