Goatsnake – Goatsnake I – Review

Goatsnake

Goatsnake I (Man’s Ruin)
by Martin Popoff

Don’t know if it’s odd or appropriate but the doomers with pedigree continue to make the best stuff. Goatsnake‘s V12 core is 2/3 of seminal but not all that great upon inspection stoner pioneers The Obsessed. Goatsnake try a lot of silly, interesting, pointless, ragingly heavy metal ideas here, many guitar tones, many eras of chemical hurling rocka rolla, some authentic psychedelia, even a handful of songs. And there’s the rub: There really ain’t enough accessible compositions on here (something Cathedral has solved, for better or worse), which is a pity, given the half-dozen personas vocalist Pete Stahl can conjure, best being that cross between Ian Astbury and Glenn Danzig. Feels important, even inspired, but I can only find a dozen useful minutes on it.
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