Goatwhore enters their own on this album showing the world the sound they have been building over the last ten years. They’ve realized the potential of their blackened death metal, maintaining its icy cold riffs and black metal squeals. The album wasn’t wholly adored, though. Pitchfork criticized the album for being generic, overly verbose and having little substance.
Nothing like a little throttling black metal to bring you out of a bad mood. From the ashes of Acid Bath emerges the satanic NOLA black metal band, Goatwhore. Featuring Soilent Green frontman Ben Falgoust, Goatwhore’s brand of black metal captures swamp gothic rather than Norweigen dirge. It infuses elements of death metal, sludge and thrash to create a uniquely New Orleans take on Black Metal while maintaining the lyrical and aesthetic similarities.