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GOATWHORE Premiere ‘Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven’ Music Video
October 11th, 2022

New Orleans, Louisiana-based extreme metal band Goatwhore have filmed a music video for the title track of their latest album Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven. Directed by David Brodsky (My Good Eye), the clip can be viewed below.

Goatwhore issued eighth full-length studio album Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven on October 7th, 2022 through Metal Blade Records.

The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

“I would describe this record as being very raw, but clarity is shaped within the chaos,” commented vocalist Louis Ben Falgoust II. “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.”

Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven marks the recording debut of bassist Robert “TA” Coleman.

Lyrically, Falgoust draws from a wide array of influences. ‘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. For the title track, meanwhile, Falgoust ventured into an idea of emotional despondency within older texts and writings, feeling like several of these writings missed an element of human nature / emotion.

“It’s a basis of human despondency, the arc of life, and its relationship with the personal abyss of overwhelming emotion and thought,” elaborated Falgoust. “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.”

Jarred Pritchard acted as producer for the second time, with tracking taking place primarily at Studio In The Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana. “He has a good vision of what we are doing and trying to present,” said Falgoust. “He tests you and forces the best performances out of you. Not in a bad way, just that he knows what each person could do prior to us entering the studio, so he has a level of expectation to push each one of us to our own individual performance levels.”

Kurt Ballou handled mixing. “Kurt actually brought a lot to the table,” reckoned guitarist Sammy Duet. “He had some opinions on a few of the song structures, which was a first for us because we never had an outside ear giving ideas. The sound of the record speaks for itself.”

Mastering was conducted by Ted Jensen.

Sigils for Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven were created by longtime collaborator Jordan Barlow. “We give him an idea and then he just goes with it,” said Falgoust. “We used sigils in the past with our name and other small details, but wanted to make this album more rooted in it. It adds a deeper aspect to our visual presentation. It creates interest and with that inspires questions. We want the listener to delve into this musical journey with us both by sound and vision.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Invocation 3’
02. ‘Born Of Satan’s Flesh’
03. ‘The Bestowal Of Abomination’
04. ‘Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven’
05. ‘Death From Above’
06. ‘Ruinous Liturgy’
07. ‘Victory Is The Lightning Of Destruction’
08. ‘Voracious Blood Fixation’
09. ‘The Devil’s Warlords’
10. ‘Weight Of A Soulless Heart’
11. ‘Nihil’
12. ‘And I Was Delivered From The Wound Of Perdition’

Goatwhore’s line-up is as follows:

Louis B. Falgoust II (vocals)
Sammy Duet (vocals and guitars)
Robert “TA” Coleman (bass)
Zack Simmons (drums)

Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven will be made available in the following vinyl variants; clear with black smoke (US exclusive), clear with red swirl / bloodshot (US exclusive), 180g black (EU exclusive), silver / black marbled (EU exclusive, limited to 300 copies), blood red / black marbled (EU exclusive, limited to 300 copies), and white / black marbled (EU exclusive, limited to 300 copies).

Directed by David Brodsky, a music video was filmed for the track ‘Born Of Satan’s Flesh’. “Prepare yourself for an unabashed violent onslaught of Satanic unsoundness of mind! All hail his Luciferian force and might!,” commented Duet.

“Welcome to the manifested curse of our latest offering,” added Falgoust. “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!”

The clip can be viewed below.

Seventh studio record Vengeful Ascension was released in June 2017 via Metal Blade.

Promotional photograph by Stephanie Cabral.

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