Goatwhore
Blood For The Master
Metal Blade
13 February 2012

by Von

Confession time. I only just started really listening to Goatwhore. Yeah, I’d heard them on compilation CDs and Spotify trawls, but I hadn’t sat down and got through a whole album. Why? Because I’m a fucking moron. Goatwhore are pretty much everything I like about metal. Each album is a great big spiky ball of black, blasting, power that makes me want to throw booze down myself, burn churches to the ground and wear nothing but bullet belts. I want to go back in time and smack myself in the face for being so dumb.

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New Orleans anti-God types, Goatwhore, have been touring Europe for the last month – Amit Sharma caught up with frontman Louis Ben Falgoust II, and guitarist Sammy Duet when they arrived in London.

So how’s the tour with Skeletonwitch and Toxic Holocaust going?
Sammy: “It’s killer cos we were all pretty much friends before we came on this tour. We’ve toured the US with Skeletonwitch before and we’ve known them for a very long time; and we’ve known Joel from Toxic Holocaust for a while now so it’s like basically a bunch of friends hangin out in Europe. Drinkin a bunch of beer and rockin out!”

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Goatwhore
Carving Out the Eyes of God
Metal Blade Records
19 June 2009

by Tom Gibbons

Like a squaddie returning home to his doting girlfriend after a lengthy service in the Helmand Province, Carving Out The Eyes Of God ditches the foreplay and goes right in for the kill. Systematically producing a new album’s worth of ferocious Black/Death metal every 3 years has done nothing to blunt Goatwhore‘s ardour for fucked up noise.

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