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Photo by Travis Stone

What’s in a name? Or, in the case of DC-based Goetia, what’s in a subgenre identifier? If one is to believe promo chatter and Bandcamp tags, Goetia is a straight-up death metal band. All the semiotics check out: the band’s name is also (and primarily) the title of a section of an ancient grimoire, taxonomizing the 72 demons King Solomon is alleged to have harnessed to build the Temple of Jerusalem (that’s the “Ars Goetia” of the Clavicula Salomonis Regis, if you must know…). Song titles are almost comically on the nose: the title track, “Lanterns of the Dead,” “Bestial Tomb” and so on. The music? It casts a different sort of spell.

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Flagelo | Gutvoid | Benothing | Sallow Moth | Veilburner | Defigurement | Mors Verum | Gorrch | Nightmarer | Diespnea | Abysmal Descent

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Music On This Mixtape:

Flagelo: "Rey de nada" taken from the album "Insaciable"

Gutvoid: "Umbriel's Door" taken from the album "Liminal Shrines"

Benothing: "Deathways" taken from the Benothing / Warp Chamber Split EP

Sallow Moth: "Arcane Benthic Umbilicus" taken from the album "Arcane Benthic Umbilicus"

Veilburner: "That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur" taken from the album "Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy"

Defigurement: "We Are the Worst" taken from the album "Endbryo"

Mors Verum: "Serenade" taken from the album "Canvas"

Gorrch: "Larv" taken from the album "Stillamentum"

Nightmarer: "Crawl of Time" taken from the album "Hell Interface"

Diespnea: "Necromanteion" taken from the album "Radici"