GOATMOON
Voitto Tai Valhalla
(LP)

Description

Originally released in 2014, Voitto Tai Valhalla is the grand culmination of a particularly prolific period for this Finnish black metal stronghold following 2011’s now-classic Varjot. With that album, mainman BlackGoat Gravedesecrator had established an acute balance between stately professionalism and burning-hot hatred, but arguably bettered that balance with the follow-up Voitto Tai Valhalla. Triumph and tragedy still waged war across GOATMOON’s paradigmatic Finnish black metal, but here, the disparity between extremes was more pronounced – the moments of folkish repose more restful, the scorn simply searing – but just as compelling as ever. As such, it followed a stoic ‘n’ stirring song-cycle that truly invoked such titular themes as “Tears of Our Fathers” and “Race of Heroes.” Blood, fire, and death are back again – and for the first time ever, on vinyl.

• Side A
• Intro  instrumental
• Voitto tai Valhalla Part
• Voitto tai Valhalla Part II: Valkoinen maa
• Desecration
• Way of the Holocaust Winds

• Side B
• And the Tears of Our Fatherland Fell
• October’s Blood
• Vääräoppisen tuhovärssy
• Descent, Ascent and Conquer
• Race of Heroes