Goatchrist are a duo from the United Kingdom that has been featured before in this zine and on the recording plays a progressive form of occult black metal and this is a review of the ir 2022 album "Ode to The Radiant One" which will be released in September by Wicker Man Recordings.
A very dark and ritualistic sounding intro starts off the album along with some clean chants before going into a heavier direction. The riffs also add in a great amount of melody while the solos and leads are also done in a very melodic style as well as some of the tracks also being long and epic in length.
All of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them while the vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams. Clear vocals can also be heard in certain sections of the album along with the music also having its progressive moments and keyboards can also be heard at times.
At times the music also gets very experimental and avant garde sounding along with the faster sections of the songs also adding in a small amount of blast beats and tremolo picking which also gives the music more of a raw feeling as well as one of the tracks also adding in a brief use of acoustic guitars, spoken word parts can also be heard briefly. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Hermeticism, Pythagoreanism, Kaballah, Vaishnavism and Vajrayana with some inspirations from the writings of manly P. Hall and Aliester Crowley.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album form Goatchrist and if you are a fan of progressive occult black metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "I, The Lawgiver" "Of The Sephirot (Which Art the Qlippoth)" and "Jacob,s Ladder". 8/5 out of 10.
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