Archgoat - Nightbringer, Lightbringer

Now in their 37th year of blasphemous brutality, Finnish Black Metal iconoclasts Archgoat remain one of the most single-minded and relentlessly visceral bands in extreme music. New album Nightbringer, Lightbringer once again taps into the guts of ancient evil to unearth a noxious stench of horror. Undiminished and eternal, the band's patented synthesis of mystical first wave Black/Death Metal, Punk hostility, primal Thrash and bestial Grindcore is destructive as ever in it's magickal raw power. Uncompromising, unaffected, unbowed, and capped with another inimitable cover from the legendary Chris Moyen, this is pure Archgoat: corrupted, devastating and - considering the dissolving certainties around us - still necessary.