Belphegor: Bondage Goat Zombie Label: Nuclear Blast, 2008 Nationality: Austrian What we have here is something of a concept album from Austria's most demented of sons. The concept here is none other than the infamous father of S & M and faecal play Marquis de Sade! Despite the somewhat ludicrous album title and artwork, which might suggest pastiche rather than creative genius, this is an excellent black metal assault on the senses in the vein of Marduk's mid-period albums and EPs, (ie when they still made great music). The fact that they decided to make a concept album illustrates the confidence of the band and this confidence flows ...  Read the complete review

Hails, This review is also posted on ciao.co.uk under the same username! For me, Bondage Goat Zombie was eagerly awaited, after their previous masterpiece of Pestapocalypse IV, I thought it impossible to top, and did it?? No, but definitely equalled it. In my mind, this album is perfection, it is the precision, technical blast beats from the bowels of hell, the swinging rythms and crunching riffing with sublime ultra satanic growls and heretic screaming we have come to know and love and expect from Helmuth and it is this combination that works everytime with their albums which proves the old addage that 'if it aint broken.... don't fix ...  Read the complete review

Coming across an album named like this, I decided I had to give it a listen - little did I know at the time that Belphegor have a habit of making goat related albums, this 2008 release was 3 years after their last bovidae influenced album "Goat Reich - Flesh Cult". Belphegor are insane chaps, blasting out death metal in the most venomous of ways, this is the kind of album that you turn down when you near traffic lights in case anyone hears it and reports you as a psychopath, Belphegor is extremely brutal, hatred filled angry music that seems so vulgar to the ears, that you can't imagine anyone taking the dark imagery particularly seriously. ...  Read the complete review