So here we are with installment
#2 of what I'm calling the “goat” series.
If you read my last review, you'll know that I am writing a series of
reviews of bands and albums that have “goat” in the band name or album title.
I'm not sure what it is about metal but there
is an awful lot of references to goats.
Actually, I do know what it is.
Goats are metal, goats are satanic, goats are where it's at.
Blackwolfgoat is an
interesting band.
I've heard some of
their previous work and it seems to be all instrumental.
This album is entirely instrumental.
There are 3 spoken word vignettes, all
pertaining to drone maintenance, and 7 songs.
The songs are primarily made up of layers of guitars, although there is
some bass here and there and one song has an 8-bit sounding drum track.
The droning part of the songs seem to be composed of each guitar playing the same part repetitively throughout the song,
creating a droning effect, while one guitar track plays a lead type part over the
top of all that.
I've probably made it
sound a lot more complicated than it is.
Basically, just lots and lots of guitars.
Some of it is electric, some of it is
acoustic.
It's an interesting concept,
because a lot of times this music is performed with electronics rather than
actual instruments such as guitars.
A
couple of these songs work really well for me, but the rest of them are not
really my cup of tea.
I can get behind
the idea and dig it for a few tracks, but for me anyway there is not a lot of
real enjoyment.
I knew in the course of
doing these “goat” reviews I would probably run afoul of our mandate here at
the Ripple Effect, which is that we only write about things I love.
And not all music, like this, is for
everyone.
I don't really know what genre
you'd bundle these guys up in.
I
wouldn't really call this metal in any way, but some really hip guy would tell
me it's post-black-trance-psych or some nonsense genre like that.
A lot of these tracks have a rock feel to
them for me.
If you are a fan of
experimental stuff and you like to try out something that is definitely out of
the mainstream, this is a release for you.
In my experience, most people want to be able to wrap their arms around
an album and call it metal, or country, or dance pop.
If you are one of those people that needs
things clearly defined this is probably
not your release.
To each his own, as
the saying goes.
- ODIN
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