ARCHGOAT The Luciferian Crown LP (2018)

Finnish black/death metal at its most uncompromising. Archgoat have been crawling out of the Tampere underground since 1989, and The Luciferian Crown, their 2018 full length, is exactly what you'd expect from a band that treats blasphemy as a spiritual practice rather than a marketing angle.

This is the 2020 repress on heavyweight tri-colour splatter vinyl, silver, red and white, which looks like something summoned rather than manufactured. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with a 16 page booklet for those who want to read along with the ritual. The dark aesthetic here is not costume, it's doctrine. If you know, you know.

Heavyweight tri-colour splatter vinyl (silver, red and white), gatefold sleeve, 16 page booklet. Origin: Finland. Genre: Black/Death Metal.

Fans of: BEHERIT, BLACK WITCHERY, BLASPHEMY, PROCLAMATION, REVENGE