Goatwhore is an American blackened death metal band, formed in 1997 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Goatwhore was formed by singer/guitarist Sammy Duet following the breakup of his previous band, Acid Bath. Soilent Green singer L. Ben Falgoust II, guitarist Ben Stout, bassist Patrick Bruders, and drummer Zak Nolan completed the lineup, which debuted with the demo Serenades to the Tides of Blood; Goatwhore's proper debut LP, The Eclipse of Ages into Black, followed in early 2000. Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun appeared in 2003 before the band jumped to Metal Blade for the fall release of 2006's A Haunting Curse. They performed at both Ozzfest 2008 and Ozzfest 2010. In 2009, Goatwhore released their fourth album, entitled Carving out the Eyes of God, and toured with Obituary, among others.
In January and February 2010, Goatwhore embarked on the 'Bound By The Road' Tour with DevilDriver, Suffocation, and Thy Will Be Done. In 2010, the band was confirmed as being part of the soundtrack for Namco Bandai Games' 2010 remake of Splatterhouse. In early 2012, the band released their fifth album, entitled Blood for the Master.

We are timeless ... within damnation" With its 2000 Rotten Records debut, The Eclipse of the Ages Into Black, Louisiana miscreants Goatwhore explored old school satanic black metal as no American act had before. The band"s flame-throwing ferocity and blasphemous conviction hailed such pioneers as Bathory and Venom and offered respite to purists grown weary of the fanciful, over-orchestrated musings of Europe"s contemporary black metallurgists. Goatwhore"s new second effort, Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun, ventures into darker, less conventional territory. Probing the pitch-black recesses of mind and soul in a disturbing, introspective examination of dark forces at work, and unleashing it all with a feral hookiness and atmospheric flare, the band steps beyond the bounds of mere black metal into a realm all its own. "One thing we didn"t want to do is write the first album over again. We wanted to do something different this time," says founding guitarist Sammy Duet.
"I think we have made a very experimental step in our future," adds frontman Louis B. (Ben) Falgoust II. "We didn"t take too big of a step, but one to separate us more from the norm. Call it what you will, but we have no name for it. The music is more of a dirge (hence the title, Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun) of dark rock and roll with an edge of old thrash metal. Maybe we have brought black metal a new edge or angle, the bastard version coming from America." While the band"s raw, vicious tone remains - and Falgoust and Duet"s high-end, low-end vocal tradeoffs ensure plenty of menace - there"s more order to the chaos on Funeral Dirge. The unrelenting tempos and buzz-sawing guitar that fueled Ages have been refined to provide "Vengeance of Demonic Fury" or "Baptized In A Storm Of Swords" with more structure, depth and texture. Goatwhore takes a rather drastic turn on "As The Sun Turns To Ash" and "Fires of the Judas Blood." With their dramatically slower pace and eerie vocal/guitar interplay, they echo Celtic Frost"s ground-breaking Into The Pandemonium and lend an even more ominous air to the album. "We are evolving more toward a heavier tone. It has to have bite and not just bark," Falgoust said. "I think the lyrics delve a little deeper into the dark psyche this time around I think it is way more abstract as well. Case in point, this verse from "A Closure In Infinity." "A black hole of undivine nature for destruction of heresy The stellar cycle about to be sucked into the imploding dark star To resurface an early cycle of man for a new millennium Closure begins in collapse, dissolving into the raven giant" "Sometimes you have to look at words and paint a picture with them like nothing you have thought of before," Falgoust said. "A demon can be a trouble or a force of rebellion. It is just as you see it or how you have been taught to perceive it."
At times, however, the vivid, evocative lyrics don"t leave much to the imagination, as "Baptized In A Storm of Swords" illustrates. "A storm of swords to end my life (Take me) A storm of swords to end it all (Drown me) Lacerations from the sky to baptize my soul one last time Rising from these seas of boiling blood (My own blood)"
"A lot of the lyrics that I wrote were either when I was really drunk or when I was really depressed," Duet said. "2002 was a really bad year for me, and I think you can see that in the lyrics and music on this album. Even though it is really evil, it still has a very depressing, suicidal tone. A lot of the lyrics I wrote were written in my own blood ... Life is a very dark thing sometimes." Given that Duet (formerly of ominous underground legends Acid Bath) splits his time with New Orleans" heavyweights Crowbar and Falgoust fronts the highly regarded Soilent Green, Goatwhore"s sonic evolution is nothing short of astonishing. Yet despite these other commitments, the band toured extensively, playing more than 100 shows in the U.S. with Mortician, Immolation and GWAR, and still found time to write and record a landmark second album. Along the way, Goatwhore (rounded out by rhythm section Zak Nolan and Pat Bruders) also had to recruit a second guitarist (Tim Holsinger recently signed on) and allow Falgoust to recover from the serious injuries he sustained in a van crash while on tour with Soilent last year. But what hasn"t killed the band certainly has made it stronger. "I think we were quite lucky to do some of the tours we did for the last CD," Falgoust said. "Our final tour, before recording for the new CD, with Gwar was an excellent step for us to head into a new album. Touring is always great. For Goatwhore, it has gotten better with each tour. "We worked really hard at building a foundation for Goatwhore on a first release. As we have said before, this is not a "side project" as so many people like to call it."

(Source: Official Site)