Reflections Of The... - Goatlord

Goatlord's debut must be the dullest thing to come out of Las Vegas, a slow and dingy offering of death-influenced doom metal that maintains a compelling raw and dirty atmosphere for the first few minutes before giving over to extreme tedium as it crawls along at an unsatisfying pace. The sound quality is poor, but this isn't really an issue and in fact perhaps aids the atmosphere. The problem lies in the musicianship itself, which is uninspired and entirely dull, the drums possessing a synthetic tone in songs like 'The Fog' that belies its programmed nature, while the guitars are only given an energetic kick in comparatively brief sections of the final two ...