GOATBLOOD set release date for new Dunkelheit album, reveal first tracks

Dunkelheit Produktionen sets Christmas Eve as the blasphemous release date for Goatblood’s highly anticipated second album, Veneration of Armageddon. For the past five years, this chains- and bullet-bedecked power-trio have been polluting the metal underground with their belligerent brand of bestial black/death. A handful of demos as well as a split were vomited forth before Goatblood’s momentous debut album, Adoration of War and Blasphemy, in 2015. Ever aptly titled, Adoration of War and Blasphemy soundly put the German band on the international map, and proved that new, gnarly twists can be made to the rigorous bestial metal template.

Alas, with a few more ensuing splits, time has come for the second Goatblood album, equally aptly titled Veneration of Armageddon. If Adoration of War and Blasphemy pushed the envelope and punished the (un)willing listener, then Veneration of Armageddon gleefully takes that garish assault one step further. Across 18 tracks in a swift ‘n’ salacious 37 minutes, Goatblood explode forth with a pulsing, pestilent savagery from which there is no reprieve. It’s dank and disgusting, dungeon-toned and treacherous, whipping the listener into a hellish, hallucinogenic trance. And yet, for however unrelenting all these songs are, Veneration of Armageddon retains a rare, ever-elusive catchiness, Goatblood here nodding as much to nascent grindcore like early Blood, Extreme Noise Terror, and Doom as they do Blasphemy, Beherit, and Archgoat. In other words, it’s simply everything that ingratiated Adoration of War and Blasphemy to the dieharder faithful, but taken to more extremes – and extremely memorable, in the process. Desecrate the birth of a bastard hobo with Veneration of Armageddon! The first sacrificial lambs can be heard below, with the respective tracks “Last Siege of Jerusalem” and “Sexcraving Witchcunt.” Preorder for the album can be found here. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Goatblood’s Veneration of Armageddon

1. Joseph’s Brain (Intro)
2. Shred the Threat
3. Necroromantic Lovers
4. Congregation of Suicidal Ceremony
5. Excretion in a Red Burst
6. Last Siege of Jerusalem
7. Bum of Bethlehem
8. Goatlord Rules Supreme
9. Mary’s Happy Enema
10. Grueling Forces Fisting Jesus
11. Lamb Hymen Virgin Booster
12. Sexcraving Witchcunt
13. Collapse of Shitbowl Earth
14. Ultimate Meltdown Imminent
15. Satan Fucks the Universe
16. Serpent of Nod
17. Anorexic Goatchick
18. Magda’s Blood (Outro)

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