In their twenty-fifth year together, extreme metal outfit Goatwhore has announced their eighth studio album, Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven. To set up an explosive October 7 release, the band has released a new single, “Born of Satan’s Flesh.”
“I would describe this record as being very raw, but clarity is shaped within the chaos,” vocalist Louis Ben Falgoust II shared. “It’s a journey of everything we’ve done and some new approaches as we advance forward. When we write, we mainly focus on the music and what we enjoy about playing it. We don’t write just to appease others. We want to enjoy playing it in a live setting as well, especially night after night on the road.”
“It’s a basis of human despondency, the arc of life, and its relationship with the personal abyss of overwhelming emotion and thought,” he explained regarding the title of the album. “It’s mixture of esoteric ideas and biblical scripts and the journey to the places some people care not to venture on mental paths… The rise and fall of the self and how the abyss can be a turning point for some and a passageway to oblivion for others. It’s blunt and to the point, just like countless aspects of life.”
He added, “Welcome to the manifested curse of our latest offering. During the past five years since our Vengeful Ascension release, entwined with a state of isolation within that period, we have been communing with our inner abyss for inspiration. Idle time is truly the Devil’s workshop. Feast your eyes (and ears) on this latest display of chaos, which is but a fragment of our impending full length release out in October!”
Check out the album cover and tracklist below:
1. Invocation 3
2. Born of Satan’s Flesh
3. The Bestowal of Abomination
4. Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
5. Death from Above
6. Ruinous Liturgy
7. Victory Is the Lightning of Destruction
8. Voracious Blood Fixation
9. The Devil’s Warlords
10. Weight of a Soulless Heart
11. Nihil
12. And I Was Delivered from the Wound of Perdition
Photo Credit: Ekaterina Gorbacheva
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