Can we finally put a cap on loooooooooooooooooooong keyboard/organ intros in Metal? It’s not scary or "atmospheric" or interesting. I get it, you’re gloomy and dark and stuff. I don’t care, I just want some Sub-Underground Disgust that’ll make me wanna make passionately violent love to a nun’s asshole.

Utuk Xul deliver in that respect, though, with Goat of the Black Possession; a foul smattering of shredding, shrieking black metal that’s thin on finesse and weighted with bleak rawness that reminds me why I’m so gay for almost any kind of black metal (I mean, I enjoy Havohej for Christ’s sake). The riffs are top notch, the vocals vary from wretchedly angry to angrily wretched, and the drumming, while somewhat lost in the mix, is quite impressive. The second track/first song "Snake of the Abyss" is a long, deliciously hellish mini-masterwork of the form… that form being Black Fucking Metal… which crawls into your ears, down into your chest, and rattles the rungs of your rib cage until your insides are a jumbled mess of liquified viscera and marrow. The rest of the album follows suit in the most savage of ways.

My faggot-ass rock journalism faggot ass-otry not withstanding, Utuk Xul is really immune to analysis. If you are a fan of the more raw form of black metal (I won’t bother listing bands that are similar), than you’ll be impressed, perhaps even surprised at how impressed you are, by Utuk Xul’s Goat of the Black Possession. Written By: Nick Benoitschwitz