Hellgoat – End Of Man 7"
Hellgoat – End Of Man 7" “It’s usually kind of difficult to get a grasp with what a band is trying to accomplish on a two track promo, but that’s certainly not the case with End of Man. After the intro subsides, we’re greeted with seven minutes of grainy, raw black metal. Aside from a few mild breaks into proto-black styling, the band’s style consists of extremely fast blasting drums and rather simplistic, repetitive trem picking. It’s pretty much hyper drive for the seven minutes of music, but with the extremely raw production, it makes things difficult to truly appreciate. The drums production, in particular, has the cymbals way too high in the mix and the bass drum way too low. The guitar sound is scratchy and grainy, never really coming into its own in the mix, which is dominated by vitriolic raspy screams and crashing cymbals.” – Metal Observer