Spotlight - GORGOROTH


This post focuses on the four Gorgoroth albums that we feel we can wholeheartedly recommend.

These Norwegian black metal titans got together in 1992 and are still active today.

There have been plenty of member changes in the band's history, though...

Original vocalist Hat only features on the debut (Pentagram) and half of the sophomore effort (Antichrist) - since he was replaced during its recording by Pest.

Antichrist is a cohesive work in spite of the division of vocal duties, perhaps even surpassing the debut, but both are outstanding Bathory-influenced offerings.

Pentagram (Embassy/Wild Rags, 1994):



Antichrist (Malicious, 1996):



Pest later went on to be replaced by controversial figure Gaahl; but returned for 2009's outstanding comeback album, Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt (as well as the impressive 2011 re-recording Of Under The Sign Of Hell).

2015's Instinctus Bestialis is also well worth picking it up; but you guessed it - it features a different vocalist, Atterigner.

Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt (Regain, 2009):



Instinctus Bestialis (Soulseller, 2015):


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