Blackened Death Thrash Metallers GOATWHORE, have released new single “Death From Above”, taken from their forthcoming album “Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven”, out on October 7th via Metal Blade Records.
“Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven” spews forth forty-seven decimating minutes of the band’s trademark brew of Death, Black, Thrash and Classic Metal delivered with breathless intensity and an unapologetic bloodlust. The title of the record – like all of the band’s releases – is both deep and direct. Notes vocalist Louis B. Falgoust II: “It’s a mixture of esoteric ideas and biblical scripts; 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.”
Lyrically, Falgoust draws from a wide-ranging assortment of inspirations. “Death From Above” is loosely based on the “Nachthexen” or Night Witches, a group of female Soviet aviators in a bomber division deployed in 1942, a period during which women were in fact barred from combat.
Unquestionably their fiercest, most accomplished album to date in sound, concept, and execution, the twelve-track “Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven” stands among the most volatile and plainly dangerous records to come out of 2022. Featuring ferocious beasts like the maniacally thrashing “Born Of Satan‘s Flesh,” the oldschool, crossover flavored “Death From Above” with its guttural chorus, and a towering title track that‘s as haunting as it is heavy, the band – Duet, Falgoust, drummer Zack Simmons, and bassist Robert “TA” Coleman (his first recorded output with the band) – covers a wealth of sonic terrain while preserving their signature, nefarious GOATWHORE aura. With an overall tone described by Duet as “dark and evil” with a perpetual sentiment of “impending dread,” the record allows little light to cling to.
“Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven” track listing:
- Invocation 3
- Born of Satan’s Flesh
- The Bestowal of Abomination
- Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven
- Death from Above
- Ruinous Liturgy
- Victory Is the Lightning of Destruction
- Voracious Blood Fixation
- The Devil’s Warlords
- Weight of a Soulless Heart
- Nihil
- And I Was Delivered from the Wound of Perdition
You can listen to “Death From Above” in the following video:
