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THAT METAL INTERVIEW presents Olle Bergholz of SLAEGT (recorded March 2022). The Danish bassist speaks of the band's most recent album 'Goddess' and the making of. Olle also speaks of his Jazz influence and  talks to us about SLAEGT's change in music direction from black metal to now. PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!      Donate to the channel to help create new content! https://www.paypal.me/thatmetalinterv... That Metal Interview Podcast is FREE and ON DEMAND, stream now on Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify, Anchor, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Deezer, Bandcamp. Listen to The #ThatMetalInterviewPodcast​​​​​: https://lnk.to/uj7sH3k4 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InterviewThat Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatmetalinterview/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatMetalInterview Subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/JrocksMetalZoneSupport the show

RYM says this is black metal — don't think I agree with the categorization personally, but it sounds great either way.

Slaegt - Goddess Heavy metal has a million sub-genres, including black metal, death metal, thrash metal, progressive metal, grindcore, folk metal, post-metal, and many, many more, but a lot of bands are very inventive for combining these sub-genres. Such as progressive thrash, or deathgrind, but one combination I’ve never heard is traditional heavy metal combined with black metal. There are a few bands popping up that are like that, including Nite and Slaegt. I briefly talked about the new Nite album, Voices Of The Kronian Moon, and it’s a pretty solid blackened heavy metal that I didn’t really love. The vocals weren’t that great, and despite only being about 41 minutes, the album meandered a lot. It did have some great instrumentation, but I just didn’t feel like going back to it much in the end. In that review, I did mention another album in that same vein that I like better, and that’s the album I’ll be talking about today, the new album from Dutch blackened heavy metal band Slaegt, entitled Goddess. This album came to my attention through The Metal Meltdown, a YouTube channel that discusses and dissects heavy metal of all kinds, and Robert said that this album was pretty good, so I wanted to give it a shot. Turns out, it’s awesome, and if I had to make a choice for my favorite heavy metal album of this year, this album is in the running so far. Goddess is a really awesome album that totally took me by surprise. For starters, this album has a cool mix of black metal, traditional heavy metal, and progressive metal. The black metal comes in the vocals and a little bit of the instrumentation, but a lot of their sound is traditional heavy metal. The prog-metal comes into play with the song structures, as this album is only 40 minutes long, but the songs are about 6 or 7 minutes long a piece. They’re a little lengthy, but the songs are pretty fun, inventive, and they rule. The solos and riffs on this thing are great, and really keep my attention, as well as having a little interlude track towards the end. It doesn’t really serve much of a purpose, but it does give the listener a small chance to breathe, considering how intense and high octane the rest of the album has been so far. The black metal vocals work surprisingly well with the trad-metal sound, and you think that it wouldn’t, but in its execution, it doesn’t distract from the instrumentation much. I wish there was clean singing, however, just because these riffs would be much better with soaring vocals over them, but I’m not complaining, nor is it really a problem. The vocals are really good, nonetheless. I don’t really have any issues with this album, but there’s not a whole lot to it, really. It’s a blackened traditional heavy metal album that’s sort of filtered through a prog-metal lens, especially with its song lengths and structures. It’s a weird, strange, and interesting little album that will go probably unnoticed by a lot of people, but Goddess is really worth hearing. It took me completely by surprise in the best way possible.

My ideal blackened heavy metal night: Tribulation, Cloak, Wormwitch, and Slægt. Who am I missing?

Slægt - Goddess (2022). New vinyl arrival and it’s a good one. Danish blackened heavy metal that pairs perfectly with bands like Tribulation, Wormwitch, and Cloak.