This,
along with the other Akercocke records, is something I have always
wished to be released on vinyl. It's fuckin' death metal! Death metal
belongs on vinyl! Ya hear me Earache / Peaceville? Re-press this shit
on wax or I might blow a gasket. Ha. Anyway, The Goat of Mendes is
probably Akercocke's most black metal of records, although they
somehow retain that vibe on all records except Antichrist, which
abolishes all blackened vibes, in my eyes.
The
production here isn't exactly shit hot, but it is far cry from the
previous effort Rape of the Bastard Nazarene. Everything seems a
bit necro at first but when your ears adjust you should find that
everything falls together nicely; the guitars are razor sharp and
crazy distorted, the bass clearly audible on any decent sound system
and the drums are fat as fuck. Dat snare, Dave, dat snare! It's like
a cross between a late 80s pop ballad and an entry level electronic
drum kit. It is awful. I'm fucking loving it!
For
me I still find that Akercocke are criminally under-rated. Dave Gray
is a fecking shit hot drummer and Mendonca's vocal range is nothing
short of the perfect front man, shitting over lesser bands who would
have to employ several vocalists to cover the spectrum that he does.
The time signatures and song structures are off the fuckin' scale
crazy. I've always thought of Opeth as a nowhere-near-as-heavy,
boring-as-fuck version of Akercocke. Anyone see where I'm coming from
here?
Anyways
this digipak has been out for nigh on five tenyear and is out on
Peaceville records, so it should be relatively easy to find. The
artwork throughout is creepy as shit, sticking to an ultra-realistic,
almost Blair Witch type look at satanic ritual. For extra lulz the
video for "Infernal Rites" is included on the disc. Raise
your claw in awe!
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