GOATBLOOD - Hate Division CD

Melbourne black metal doesn't apologise. Goatblood emerged from the same uncompromising southern hemisphere darkness that gave us Abominator, and Hate Division is exactly what the title promises: thirty-something minutes of raw, war-obsessed black metal that owes as much to Bathory's Hammerheart-era brutality as it does to the Darkthrone school of deliberate ugliness. No polish. No apology. Correct.

This is Australian black metal with genuine conviction, the kind of record that sounds like it was recorded in a bunker and intended only for people who already know why that matters. If you've been waiting for local output that can sit credibly next to Mayhem's De Mysteriis or Immortal's middle period without flinching, here it is. The Melbourne underground has been keeping this one close for a reason.

CD pressing of Hate Division (2017). Origin: Melbourne, Australia. Genre: Black Metal.

Fans of: Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Bathory, Immortal, Abominator.