The wait is finally over! Goatwhore have announced their new album, Angels Hung From the Arches of Heaven, is scheduled to arrive on October 7th via Metal Blade Records. To celebrate their long-awaited full-length effort, the group has unleashed a video for their new single, “Born Of Satan’s Flesh.” The follow-up to 2017’s Vengeful Ascension was produced by Jarrett Pitchard (Exhumed, 1349), tracking was primarily done at Studio In Country in Bogalusa. Additionally, the group also recruited producer Kurt Ballou (Converge, High On Fire etc.) to mix the record while the final mastering was handled by engineer Ted Jensen (Ghost, Gojira, Cult of Luna). 

 

Vocalist Louis Ben Falgoust II comments:

 

“I would describe this record as being very raw, but clarity is shaped within the chaos. It’s a journey of everything we’ve done and some new approaches as we advance forward. When we write, we mainly focus on the music and what we enjoy about playing it. We don’t write just to appease others. We want to enjoy playing it in a live setting as well, especially night after night on the road.”

 

Falgoust further explains: 

“It’s a basis of human despondency, the arc of life, and its relationship with the personal abyss of overwhelming emotion and thought,” elaborates Falgoust. “It’s mixture of esoteric ideas and biblical scripts and the journey to the places some people care not to venture on mental paths… The rise and fall of the self and how the abyss can be a turning point for some and a passageway to oblivion for others. It’s blunt and to the point, just like countless aspects of life.”

 

On working with Pritchard Falgoust states:

“He has a good vision of what we are doing and trying to present. He tests you and forces the best performances out of you. Not in a bad way, just that he knows what each person could do prior to us entering the studio, so he has a level of expectation to push each one of us to our own individual performance levels.”

 

Falgoust concludes:

“Welcome to the manifested curse of our latest offering. During the past five years since our Vengeful Ascension release, entwined with a state of isolation within that period, we have been communing with our inner abyss for inspiration. Idle time is truly the Devil’s workshop. Feast your eyes (and ears) on this latest display of chaos, which is but a fragment of our impending full-length release out in October!”

 

On Ballou, guitarist Sammy Duet comments:

“Kurt actually brought a lot to the table. He had some opinions on a few of the song structures, which was a first for us because we never had an outside ear giving ideas. The sound of the record speaks for itself.” 

 

Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:

 

 

Track List:

01) Invocation 3

02) Born of Satan’s Flesh

03) The Bestowal of Abomination

04) Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven

05) Death from Above

06) Ruinous Liturgy

07) Victory Is the Lightning of Destruction

08) Voracious Blood Fixation

09) The Devil’s Warlords

10) Weight of a Soulless Heart

11) Nihil

12) And I Was Delivered from the Wound of Perdition

 

 

Tour Dates:

w/ Incantation, Bewitcher, Caveman Cult:

8/01/2022 Orlando, FL @ The Haven 

8/02/2022 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 

8/03/2022 Greensboro, NC @ Blind Tiger 

8/04/2022 Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage

8/05/2022 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s 

8/06/2022 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge 

8/07/2022 Boston, MA @ Middle East 

8/08/2022 Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon 

8/09/2022 Pittsburgh, PA @ Crafthouse 

8/10/2022 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop 

8/11/2022 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s 

8/12/2022 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater

8/13/2022 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre 

8/14/2022 Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater 

w/ Incantation, Bewitcher:

8/16/2022 Seattle, WA @  El Corazon 

8/17/2022 Portland, OR @ Bossanova Ballroom 

8/18/2022 Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post 

8/19/2022 Los Angeles, CA @ 1720

8/20/2022 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick 

8/21/2022  Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater

8/22/2022 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad

8/24/2022 Dallas, TX @ Trees 

8/25/2022 Austin, TX @ Come And Take It Live 

8/26/2022 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live 

8/27/2022 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks