Goatcraft – Submersion

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Goatcraft began as a vision of frustration. Occult music had died a crass death, imitated into candy piece fragments of its original vision. Death metal had been absorbed by the insatiable obese monster that is rock music and had lost its spirit of tempestuous power, replaced instead by lite jazz and creeling self-pitying children. Even the rising dark ambient and neoclassical scenes seemed afloat on a river of fast food grease, sweltering in their own indirection.

With this massive failure pressing on his nerves like a forgotten shell fragment from a war long lost, Goatcraft’s sole member Lonegoat decided in 2010 to overcome doubts and re-double the attack. What was at first a keyboard attack to rival the sonic intensity of death metal quickly became layers of neoclassical piano centering on dark concepts, and later, with the addition of soundtrack-like dark ambient lush atmosphere, an entirely new type of music, baptized by Lonegoat himself as ‘Necroclassical.’ Submersion, the fourth Goatcraft album, continues the ABYSS concept: A)ll for Naught B)lasphemer Y)ersinia Pestis S)ubmersion S)

Heavily influenced by the Russian philosopher Azsacra Zarathustra, Submersion is esoterica in extremis. Dark ambient and piano violence channels the psyche to delve deep within itself, to unravel in itself; to submerge beyond the anandamaya kosha. The Ubernoumenon is reborn, the thing-in-itself above all other things-in-themselves. Infinitely cast aside, the demiurge suppurates in eternal ruin, forever crumbling outside the boundaries of human perception. Gravity is thrown to the wake, buried in eras nonexistent. All that remains is the light bedecked within.