Goatlord is a demo album

Demo (music)

A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 by Norwegian

Norway

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 band Darkthrone

Darkthrone

Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

.

The songs on Goatlord are from an instrumental demo tape recorded in 1990–1991, between the band's first and second albums (Soulside Journey

Soulside Journey

-Credits:* Gylve Nagell – Drums* Ted Skjellum – Lead guitar, vocals* Dag Nilsen – Bass guitar* Ivar Enger – Rhythm guitar...

and A Blaze in the Northern Sky

A Blaze in the Northern Sky

A Blaze in the Northern Sky is the second album by the Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone. It contains the band's first black metal recordings. The album was recorded in August 1991 and released in February 1992.-Recording and release:...

, respectively). These songs were scrapped when the band changed style from death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 to black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

. The vocals were then recorded in 1994 by Fenriz

Fenriz

Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...

. The female-sounding vocals were also recorded by him, partly using pitch shift

Pitch shift

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ing. Satyr

Sigurd Wongraven

Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...

 of the band Satyricon

Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, and the first one in the genre to join a multi-national record label .-Biography:Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral and Wargod. Ulver and Satyr soon joined them...

 is credited for the opening screams in Rex and Sadomasochistic Rites.

Track listing

1. "Rex" – 03:48
2. "Pure Demoniac Blessing" – 02:35
3. "(The) Grimness of Which Shepherds Mourn" – 04:23
4. "Sadomasochistic Rites" – 04:04
5. "As Desertshadows" – 04:42"
6. "In His Lovely Kingdom" – 03:24
7. "Black Daimon" – 03:50
8. "Toward(s) the Thornfields" – 03:37
9. "(Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin" – 03:25
10. "Green Cave Float" – 04:02

Personnel

• Fenriz
  Fenriz
  Leif Gylve Nagell , better known as Fenriz, is the drummer and lyricist of the Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone...
  
   - drums, vocals
• Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto
  Nocturno Culto is a Norwegian musician, best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and partial bassist of the influential black metal band Darkthrone. He has been with the band since 1988. He currently works in Norway as a school teacher, and has a son and a daughter...
  
   - guitars
• Dag Nilsen - bass guitar
• Zephyrous - guitars
• Satyr
  Sigurd Wongraven
  Satyr is the vocalist, lead and rhythm guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon. He was a founding member of Satyricon and have so far released 7 albums, 2 demos and a live DVD...
  
  - backing vocals