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“Extreme-metal bands and their fans love gory lyrics. Slayer and Cannibal Corpse keep things theatrical, but on their new EP, Cleveland’s Fistula tackle the all-too-real case of alleged rapist and murderer Anthony Sowell. The band cranks out ultra-distorted riffs over clattering drums; the vocals are an indecipherable howl of pain. Goat is a seriously ugly record, as befits its morbid and disturbing subject matter. The music is a buzzing, hostile roar. Samples of news coverage tell the story of sex crimes and the discovery of bodies (and body parts) in Sowell’s home. The dispassionate narration, bolstered by grinding riffs, makes the whole thing even more depressing and bleak. There’s no Cannibal Corpse-style shock value here — this is real death metal.” — Phil Freeman, CLEVELAND SCENE
Ohio is rotting. Fistula once again team up with Crucial Blast to deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge in the form of Goat, a five-song Ep of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009. This new disc delivers more of the pulverizing, slime-covered sludge and primitive death metal rot that these Buckeye barbarians have been carving out in the back of Medina garages over the past ten years, continuing to follow in the coagulated blood tracks of Frost, Autopsy and Winter, but filtered through Fistula’s uniquely mangled and inebriated scum-haze and utterly negatory worldview.
Fistula’s Goat will be available in early June on both cd and digital formats, and we also have a new shirt design for Goat that features the album’s insane cover art from artist Steve Barcus. The shirt and cd can both be preordered now for immediate shipment once they arrive from the manufacturer, and we also have a shirt/cd/sticker/1″ button set package available as well. The Goat design is printed on Gildan brand 100% cotton black t-shirts, available in sizes small through XXL, with high quality grey ink printing on both front and back.
