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Milking The Goatmachine
Milking The Goatmachine – Back From The Goats

1.    March Into The Shed
2.    A Tale Of Slaughtering
3.    Surf Goataragua
4.    Goats Got No Clits
5.    Rise Of The Rise Goat
6.    Bingo Bongo
7.    Eaten Blessed Scum
8.    Goatthrower
9.    Feed The Goat
10.    Wasting Away
11.    The Last Unigoat
12.    Born, Lost & Captured
13.    Back From The Goats

It’s tricky being a new metal band these days. If you’re a dreary indie haircut outfit, you can get away with sticking a ‘The’ in front of any given noun and writing dreary pap. But if you’re a metal band, how do you conjure up the name that fully conveys your brutal majesty and power? If you’re Milking The Goatmachine, you don’t; instead, you just concentrate on packing as much goat- sorry - brutality, into your riffs as possible.

  While the fixation with a certain cloven-hooved ruminate is immediately obvious, what’s equally obvious is that they know how to pen a beautifully ugly metal tune. Milking The Goatmachine come very much from the Suffocation school of death metal, and certainly live up to such a laudable influence. While not having the wild swerves of Ted Maul, Goatmachine also throw in a few grindcore pig (goat?) squeals to keep everyone on their toes. And it works beautifully; ‘Eaten Blessed Scum’ sounds like modern Machine Head having its face pushed up against an angle grinder, while ‘Goats Got No Clits’ has Goatleeb Udder treating his bass drums like Amir Kahn treats his speedball punch bag. And if you were ever wondering how a death metal take on surf rock would sound, then this is the album for you. For everyone else who’s interested in just the death metal bit, get this as well

Reviewed by Steve Jones
‘Back From The Goats’ is out now on Anstalt Records






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