The Luciferian Crown

Digipack CD / Gatefold 12" LP / Special Edition Vinyl / Merch can be purchased at bit.ly/archgoat With grim reliability, ARCHGOAT discharge yet more pustulant diabolic foulness into a world increasing moulded in their image. ‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a frighteningly-focused vision of hellish corruption, unsentimental, morally abhorrent and steeped in a violent horror all too real. Contemporaneous with the uncanny classics of Finnish death and black metal – ARCHGOAT share the same penchant for mind-altering atmospherics, blurring the mystical song-craft of first wave black metal with guttural punk, primitive thrash, the sonorous barbarism of vintage death metal and grindcore that reeks of putrefaction. Since forming in 1989 ARCHGOAT have revolved around an inner circle all their own, refining their idiosyncratic primitivism - ‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a mirror crushed against nature, a portal through egocentric decadence into the pile of tortured corpses in your psyche.

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A review of The Luciferian Crown by Archgoat, available September 14th worldwide via Debemur Morti Productions.