Black Mountain Transmitter - Black Goat Of The Woods

An ode to the Lovecraftian lore of Shub Niggurath, Black Goat of the Woods was conceived as "the soundtrack from some lost low budget horror movie, rediscovered on an old and faded VHS cassette found mouldering in a deserted house in the depths of the woods".

The one man project of J.R Moore, Black Mountain Transmitter has released several CDrs and tapes, all to great critical acclaim, and the quality of his work speaks volumes.

This Aurora Borealis release is the first official release and a reissue of the long sold out and much sought after limited CDr.

On describing the recording, Moore said: "The music was certainly very much influenced by that certain breed of 70s horror films. Things like the soundtrack to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Giuliano Sorgini's atmospheres in Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue; Carl Zittrer's soundscapes in Deranged, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things and Dead Of Night, and of course people like Fabio Frizzi in Italian horror and the BBCs Radiophonic Workshop's electronic sounds in something like The Stone Tape and countless creepy old TV productions..."

An excellent, macabre and somewhat psychedelic release that spans many genres in its 40 minute playing time, Black Goat of the Woods pays perfect homage to the dark denizen of the nocturnal glades, and is a true paean to backwoods horror.

File under: Metal, Drone, Blackened Drone

For Fans Of: Goblin, Burial Hex,

This is the debut release for Black Mountain Transmitter on Aurora Borealis. Black Goat of the Woods was originallyreleased on Black Mountain Transmitter's on Lysergic Earwax label as a limited edition Cdr. Black Mountain Transmitteris JR Moore. A limited edition C80 cassette version of this title is also being released on Auris Apothecary.

JULIAN COPE: "Talking of tidal music, check out the weird, strung-out emanations of BLACK GOAT..., thesumptuously-packaged new album from Black Mountain Transmitter: its like standing on the banks of a great fjord, watching solemn spectral processions of passing ancestral death ships, some elegant antiques with dragons head at their prows, but mostly just the rotting hulks of forgotten wars, all trotted out to impress some mysterious underworld administration. Like much of the best so-called Dark Ambient music, the sounds created by Black Mountain Transmitter gives the impression of having been set in motion long ago by some remote force."

HEATHEN HARVEST: "Dark ambient music has often sought ingress into Lovecrafts worlds, some making a career out of it, and while the fidelity is not pristine as some ambience, the tape hiss of Black Mountain Transmitter coupled with the opera within, does indeed hark back to Dunwich and to those places where insane gods flute."

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