Archgoat [ Black metal | Finland | Interview on April 20 , 2008]

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Archgoat [Date of interview: April 20, 2008]
"The Hammer of Satan spitting the litanies of the Fallen Angel is what we bring to Thailand. True original black metal the way it should be." : Ritual Butcherer - Archgoat.

Hails Ritual Butcherer, how 's your life in Finland?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Dark and cold. Also a term isolated would come to my mind. There is certain serenity about this country that is unique.

Actually, in 1993, you guys entered studio to record the full-length but you made a decision to vanish. It resulted from the disagreement with the terms of Necropolis. On that year, you decided to demobilized "Archgoat", what's the actually reason to abolish the band or only reason about you guys sick of the black metal scene during that time turn out to commercial?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: A shitty company like Necropolis Records does not dictate what we do and were not a reason for us to vanish. The huge and sudden out burst of commerciality and the swarm of weak music orientated human waste, who started to get the idea, that anybody can play black metal with out any philosophical aspects, relying on the visual and musical sides alone. As Satanism has always been the main force behind Archgoat, we did not want to be part of this tidal wave of weakness and unoriginality to which the black metal scene had turned into. True Satanic ideology was replaced with words like paganism, melancholy, melodic and even vampirism and so on as the whole underground was "over a night" exposed to the ones it should have never reached, the weaklings who immediately chose the easy path of copying the original bands instead of walking their own path. To us Archgoat hymns are religious and materializations of our beliefs. We will not stand among the false.

Archgoat back into the scene again in 2004 - approx 11 years (1993 - 2004) for the lull and you guys still worship into the Satanic Oath? What are you doing in that period?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Living our lives and being as far as possible from black metal scene. Evolving to the next level and venturing deeper into the roots of true understanding of this philosophy.

Why you come back to the Black metal scene again?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Sometime back in 2002 I think, I had started to feel the need to compose satanic hymns again, but only under the banner of Archgoat. I felt the black flame inside me burning stronger and stronger seeking ways to be unleashed. I had a long discussion with Angelslayer and we both felt, that our crusade could continue, but only if we would feel the pure dedication towards our works as we did earlier. The very first time we started to play "Rise of the Blackmoon" after 13 years of total musical silence, we both felt the pure black energy we had forget into this hymn flowing through our psyches and it was all clear after that, our crusade shall continue. After the first rehearsal we both felt, like we had never stopped to play in Archgoat, it was so natural for us to continue from the point we stopped earlier. We are not interested about terms like black metal scene. When we started there was no scene, we rather walk our own path the way we see it proper. The word scene evolves into a mass movement and masses represent flock mentality instead of intelligence.

Talk about "Whore of Bethlehem", you wanna talked about the origin of the God that borned from the whole's cunt? And why do you chose the name "Whore of Bethlehem"?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Satanism and grinding metal of death combined to desecrate the weak white light of the christianitys holy symbol. The title of the album is our personal mockery towards the so-called Virgin Mary, who is the personification of the hypocrisy this religion is all about. Lustful bitch disguised as a pure and untouched, while the spirit of the beast dwelled inside her body demanding to be desecrated and fornicated.

Can you explain the hymn of Archgoat?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Luciferian Darkness…

We got a royal message from the majestic desecrator "InCoffin Prod", about God Beheading Live Ritual 2008 in the name of An Angelcunt Slaying Black Fuckin Mass Ritual on August 2008. Before Archgoat come, can you send some messages to son of blind idiot God here? And Sons of Satan can't wait for the Sacrament of Blasphemy?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: The Hammer of Satan spitting the litanies of the Fallen Angel is what we bring to Thailand. True original black metal the way it should be.

Lastly, What's the next plan of Archgoat? New album?
Ritual Butcherer | ARCHGOAT: Summer 2008 Blasphemous Underground Productions shall release an Archgoat and Black Witchery 2x12" split gatefold. By the end of this cursed year our second full length might see the dying light of this world.