7/10

"Thaumaturgical Rites of The Damned" is Out now. Order your copy here:

https://deadlightsanctuary.bandcamp.com/releases

          8/10

Deadlight Sanctuary’s debut album, “Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned,” is a deafening assault of ritualistic black metal and soul possessing doom metal. Musically I would have to say that the album is one of the most sinister sounding releases to come out this year, which is saying a lot given the amount of insanely vicious releases that I have reviewed since the beginning of this year.

Deadlight Sanctuary is a solo project led by the mysterious and merciless artist know as “G,” who also plays in the Norwegian unforgiving extreme metal act Goatkraft. His approach to songwriting is primarily focused around crafting these massive sounding atmospheres of abysmal doom with a horrifying blackened edge, thus leading listeners down a path of unimaginable horror. One area of this album that stood out to me right away was the vocals. The demonic and gruesome vocal delivery is almost inhumane and sounds like something coming from another dimension. Take the vocals and match them with some monolith sized riffs, and you find yourself being consumed by a tidal wave of pure devastation.

The album is only about 25 minutes in length, however, once you start listening to the album you feel as though time stops as you embark on this blasphemous journey. The opening piece, “Psalm of the Fallen,” is a haunting introduction track containing eerie whispers and a primordial drum beat that could be used in an occult like ritual. The track really serves as an intro for the next song, “Trance of Doom,” which opens the gateways into a tormenting landscape of bombastic nightmarish sounds. The vocals echo over the instruments like a bloodthirsty ghoul screaming throughout some lost catacombs beneath the planet.

On the next song, “Unto the Kingdom,” you hear a more intense approach with faster rhythms that feverishly come blasting out of the speakers. I will say that compared to some bands that have a difficult time smoothly transitioning from slower more doom like compositions to the more chaotic black metal style, Deadlight Sanctuary is able to fluidly make the tempo change, while still maintaining a strong unholy tone throughout the song.

Track number four, “Abysmal Void,” is an instrumental piece that contains a very melancholy atmosphere with some solemn sounding chord progressions. The music is a pleasant sounding departure and lulls you into a false sense of tranquility right before the next song, “Deadlight Sanctuary.” On the album’s title track you are savagely thrown back into a pulverizing pit of despair and the music once again charges relentlessly forward with malevolent riffs violently crashing through the musical landscape. The final song on the album, “Cloaked in Lurking Fear,” is a thunderous bludgeoning of putrid sounding blackened doom and probably my favorite song off of the album. I think the song perfectly represents what Deadlight Sanctuary brings to the world of extreme music by offering listeners a dynamic approach to black metal that creatively injects some haunting doom elements as well.

“Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned,” is going to be released on July 24th through Sentient Ruin Laboratories, a label that I find to be dominating 2020 in terms of exceptional releases. Deadlight Sanctuary joins an already stacked Sentient Ruin roster and like most bands that are on the label, Deadlight Sanctuary was able to carve their own distinctive sounding brutal mark with this debut release. The album is an overall fearsome sounding release that I highly recommend all extreme metal fanatics check out. I’ll be damned if it does not appear on some top ten metal albums of the year lists for 2020, as well as the top ten list for albums that would scare the shit out of a group of nuns.

Time has come to present DEADLIGHT SANCTUARY. Brand new side project of Goatkraft's leader G.
If you are into Beherit / Demoncy IT IS A MUST... Debut album "Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned" will be released by Sentient Ruin Laboratories ( USA ) and Iron Bonehead Productions ( Europe ) in 24.07.2020.
You can listen to it and pre order it here :

sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/thaumaturgical-rites-of-the-damned

Follow DEADLIGHT SANCTUARY on Bandcamp

deadlightsanctuary.bandcamp.com/album/deadlight-sanctuary

Goatkraft/Goathammer "Cemetery Violence" split tape is OUT NOW!!!

Order your copy here

buried@bleakbone.de

The best monochromatic metal artworks of 2019

100 Artists with 100 Bands on 100 releases, with bands and artists commentary. Monochromes returns, available end of January, more details to follow.

Featuring: Abbath, Aegrus, Aephanemer, Aphyxion, Asthma Castle, Black Vulpine, Burning Gloom, Ceremony of Silence, Decem Maleficivm, Deserted Fear, Diabolical, Dødsfall, Edmond Jefferson And Sons, Embrional, Festerday, Fractal Universe, Goatkraft, Godhead Machinery, High Command, Imperium Dekadenz, Kaleikr, King Apathy, Lucifera, Morgan Rider & The Deep Dark River, Nailed To Obscurity, Necronautical, Nocturnal Hollow, Pulchra Morte, Ravenous Death, Son Of A Witch, Strigoi, Totengeflüster more TBC.

A4 Hardback (210mmx297mm)
Collected in one deluxe volume.
Printed on high gloss 200gm paper.
144 Pages
300 Limited edition
Hand numbered and embossed

Canadian Les Fleur du Mal Productions will rerelease "Angel Slaughter" mini album on tape format in november 2019. This version will include different cover art and a bonus track.

More info:

https://lesfleursdumalproductions.bigcartel.com/contact

XL 6/7

74/100

Vital Vinyl Vlog have chosen GOATKRAFT as the band of the month!

                    7,5/10

12"LP details:
- 350gsm Gatefold Jacket with inside flooded in black
- 140g Black and Red/Black Splatter Vinyl
- A2 Poster on 150gsm Art Paper
- Limited to 500 copies (400x Black & 100x Splatter Vinyl)

CD details:
- Jewelcase CD
- 16 page Booklet on 170gsm Art Paper
- Limited to 500 copies

Order from the label : https://shop.ironbonehead.de/

4/5

                            3.75/5

No Clean Singing reveals "Goatkraft's Command" - second track from our upcomming debut album entitled "Sulphurous Northern Bestiality". Copy and paste link below or just click on the picture above

https://www.nocleansinging.com/2019/02/22/an-ncs-premiere-goatkraft-goatkrafts-command/

Second review in Black Metal ist Krieg from Italy 

                                                               3,3/5

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets March 22nd as the international release date for Goatkraft's highly anticipated debut album, Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Following a full year from the band's rapturously received Angel Slaughter EP via Iron Bonehead, Goatkraft's
Sulphurous Northern Bestiality says everything it needs to in its title: chokingly sulphurous, beyond bestial in both form and content, and hailing from the northern climes of Norway, a country usually underrepresented in the bestial arts. The power-trio's full-length debut hardly differs from its shorter predecessor, underlining the band's commitment to their monochromatic muse, but offers a fuller and fouler expression of the Goatkraft vision.

CLICK ON THE COVER TO LISTEN TO PROMOTIONAL SONG

             3/5

Those of you who are interested in buying physical copies of Goatkraft releases directly from the band should leave the message in contact box with the address or visit our bandcamp profile

           3.75/5

            9/10

MLP details:
- 350gsm Jacket with Inside flooded in Black and Gloss Machine Varnish
- 140g Black and White/Black Splatter Vinyl
- 250gsm Cardboard Insert
- Limited to 500 copies (400x Black and 100x Black/White Splatter Vinyl)

MCD details:
- Jewelcase MCD
- 4 Page Booklet on 170gsm Art Paper
- Limited to 500 copies

7,5/10

Positive but without rating

Another interview. This time for Violent Demise Zine.

An interview for Occult Black Metal Zine. Copy and paste the link or click on the picture above to read it.

http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.no/2018/02/goatkraft-interview.html

                           "Angel Slaughter" gets 5/5

Jim Saunders revealing "The Temple of Infernal Fire" in "In The Pit" on Midlands Metalheads Radio in the UK. Second track from upcomming "Angel Slaughter" mini album.

Listen here:

midlandsmetalheads.com/pit-12-25-01-18/

You can listen to "Angel Slaughter" promotional song on Iron Bonehead Productions You Tube channel.

The Hell will be unleashed 09.03.2018. Support!

"War Metal - Promo 2017" - Tape

- Black Chrome Tape
- 4 Panel J-Card
- Limited to 300 copies

Order: https://shop.ironbonehead.de/

"Angel Slaughter" teaser on Iron Bonehead Productions You Tube channel. Watch and Subscribe!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Sa1ZG7hA8

Goatkraft have joined Iron Bonehead Productions for a release of "Angel Slaughter" mini album. The premiere date is set for 18.03.2018. It will be released on Lp and Cd formats. For more info contact IBP