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GOAT DISCIPLE
Wolfcult Domination EP

Blood Harvest (2018)
Rating: 7/10

Wolfcult Domination is the debut offering from an extreme metal act hailing from Salt Lake City that play fast, barbaric, rust-coated, bullet-belt, tank-riding, machine-gun metal. This is music for the battlefield, for a time when such blood-soaked soldiers are tip-toeing through human debris.

This EP provides the perfect soundtrack of annihilation as the masked / hooded combo ride on black winds of pestilence with their savage yelps and hideous cranks of speed.

The four tracks on offer are served up as despicable, belligerent blasts of hatred and war-torn hostility. Opener ‘Oreb Zaraq’ is a blistering vortex of violence, a black thrash smog-choked smorgasbord of menacing vocal gurgles, wretched torrents of swiftness and general all-out rustiness and blood thrown into a wayward blender of brutality.

‘Black Skull Hypnogogue’ is equally frightful; a hyper black metal detonation of rattling, chaotic percussion and bludgeoning, pulverising chords delivered like a choking, smoking furnace of hate and aggression.

Goat Disciple are not playing to trends, they just cough up visceral, grating black-death cruelty and ferocity. The quartet of tracks melt into one another as blackened, billowing meat-grinders with only occasional mid-tempo breathers in order to inhale more toxic fumes of terror.

The simmering opening of ‘Torture Siddhi’ is a bile-soaked menacing stab before once again we’re thrown to the rabid wolves who thrash, flail, gnash and snap their way through flesh and bone. Who cares what the vocalist is burping up, but it’s most likely innards encrusted with shards of metal as Goat Disciple ominously provoke then murder with their belligerent bouts of guttural, incomprehensible noise as hectic, scathing riffs continue to burrow and plough a bloody path.

Closer ‘Mammon’ rolls with intensity and black, smeared harshness, before the sudden jerk of speed picks off any survivors who’ve managed to survive this gory battle, whereby bass, drums and guitars all fuse to form an impenetrable and seething wall of hate.

If you’re a fan of rushing, hectic, snarling, leather-clad metal then no doubt this volatile and abusive cacophony will appeal. And for those of a weaker disposition, prepare to be slayed by one of the most aggressive outings of the year, because this one is gonna hurt.

Neil Arnold

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