The Goat Of Mendes - Akercocke

Description: Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Death Metal / Artist: Akercocke / Enhanced / Audio CD released 2005-06-20 at Peaceville / ... more

The Goat Of Mendes - Akercocke ... Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 Of Menstrual Blood And Semen
2 Skin For Dancing In
3 Betwixt The Iniquitatis And The Protigators
4 Horns Of Baphomet
5 Masks Of God
6 Serpent
7 Fortune My Foe
8 Infernal Rites
9 He Is Risen
10 Breaking Silence
11 Initiation
12 Ceremony Of Nine Angels
13 Infernal Rites

Newest Review: ... moans of ecstasy. As with all of Akercocke's releases the album's theme is again one of Satanism, of the Crowleyan vain in ... more

... particular. This is evident in the album artwork, which depicts heavily theatrical satanic ritual practices complete with pentagrams, cloaks, altars, naked flesh, and the heads of goats, as well as in both the sexually explicit, evocation-like lyrics and in the song-titles, such as 'Of Menstrual Blood and Semen', a reference to a supposedly life-giving elixir as devised by the drug-addled, incredibly eccentric but disarmingly intelligent occultist and much revered and reviled late-Victorian celebrity figure Aleister ...more

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The Goat of Mendes
Release Date: 2005 - 06 - 20, Audio CD, Peaceville

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The Goat Of Mendes - Akercocke: HAIL SATAN! (440 words)
by - written on 01/08/09 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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Building on the foundations of its predecessor 'Rape of the B*stard Nazarene', Akercocke's 2001 album 'The Goat Of Mendes' is an excercise in ominous and shape-shifting black metal with death metal elements, merging lethargic and majestic sounding guitar riffs, dramatic and lamenting clean singing and dissonant, gothic-sounding passages with chugging, groove-ridden death metal sections, dementedly fast and melodic solos and a mix of incredibly intense rasping screams and extremely low and guttural growls, accompanied here and there by poignant strains of cello, werewolf-like howls, evil and portentous sounding synths and passages of male and female moans of ... Read the complete review