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GOYA - 777

Limited to 500 copies. Black vinyl.
New and unplayed. Download included.

Includes:
-12“ vinyl of ”777“ pressed on 150-gram recycled black vinyl
-full-color jacket with front cover art by Hunter Hancock and back cover art by Laney Oleniczak
-two-sided, B&W, 11” x 11“, insert/lyric sheet


777 is a gigantic buldozer of riffs. Nothing much has changed since Goya’s debut demo release. Well apart from the band have upped the volume of their music to huge levels. First track – Rites Of Hashage – is an actioned packed 9 minute blast of head-banging riffs for you to check out. Fans of Sabbath, Electric Wizard and Sleep will rejoice as they may have a new favourite band to follow. Top notch vocals and riffs combine to make this a brilliant track to open the album with.
 
2nd track – Necromance – is another riff-fuelled odyssey for you to be hooked on. Goya are virtually unstoppable here. Vocalist Jeff may not show many emotions at first but give it time as his power and precision will win you over. This dude sounds like he has seen it all and still lived to tell the tale. The band is throwing some mightly brutal riffs for him to tell his story to. Just sit back and enjoy this dark tale.
 
At this point, you can feel the heavy pulsating riffs that GOYA are playing through your speakers. It is a good job that Goya have 4 heavy slabs of awesome tunes to go through. As you are in for one heck of a wild ride.
 
3rd Track – Night Creeps – starts off with a bass driven riff before the powerful drums and guitar riffs come screeching in. An almost 12 minute ride into the dark demonic world that Goya have managed to build through the power of the almighty riff. This is a doom-laiden thrill-ride that will send chills down your spine. Vocalist is singing his heart and soul out here. It gives the track a superb hard-rocking occult vibe to get your teeth stuck into. You will need to take a rest after this song, as Goya are unrelentless here. My advice is to take a moments rest before the next epic track starts.
 
OK – You have had your brief rest. Time to start again for the remaining songs to crush your soul to.
 
4th track – Death's Approaching Lullaby– is probably the sweetest natured track on the album. Come on its called Death's Approaching Lullaby. What did you expect? A 13-minute epic full of more blazing riffs for you to sell your soul to. Well that is exactly what this track is. Another wonderful epic track for Goya to show their brilliant talents to the world. Long drawn out riffs where the speakers are amped upto volume 666. Expect huge amounts of distortion to enhance your experience that little bit more…
 
So what do we have next for the final two tracks – Blackfire and Bad Vibes. Well we have 13 more minutes of crushing Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal riffs for Goya to slay you with. And believe me they do. These two tracks are probably the best two tracks on the album as they are both played at a furious pace.
 
Bad Vibes ends the album on an almighty high. And with a name like Bad Vibes, GOYA unleash some unwanted anger and fury off their chest. It is a song we can all relate to when having a bad day and this song is the perfect soundtrack to get all the negative things off your chest.
 
777 is an excellent debut record. It is full of mean riffs that should get GOYA more exposure within the Doom/Stoner Metal scene. The production is immense on the album. So no complaints on that score.

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For fans of Pallbearer, Cough, Windhand, High on Fire, Sleep, Toner Low, etc.

“If Goya succeeded in reminding us that all living things eventually fade, die and decay, then they have done so by creating something immortal. ‘777’ may or may not go down as a doom classic, but to call it the most hate-friendly collection of festering riffs since ‘Dopethrone’ may not be too great a stretch...”

“...777 is a gigantic buldozer of riffs. Nothing much has changed since Goya’s debut demo release. Well apart from the band have upped the volume of their music to huge levels. First track – Rites Of Hashage – is an actioned packed 9 minute blast of head-banging riffs for you to check out. Fans of Sabbath, Electric Wizard and Sleep will rejoice as they may have a new favourite band to follow. Top notch vocals and riffs combine to make this a brilliant track to open the album with...”

“...Goya have managed to craft a victorious debut that manages to pay tribute to its founding fathers as much as it manages to stand on its own feet. Influenced but not overly informed by their forebears and aided by a pounding live sound, ‘777’ will make a great addition to any household that celebrates the Iommic. Will they continue on this path of well-written songs or will they focus on jamming and walls of sound next? One thing’s for sure: this is marijuana doom the way it was meant to be made. Doomed from womb to tomb, this reviewer is aching to hear the next effort.”

“...‘777’ is instantly a gratifying listen, particularly for those who like their riffs overblown and grimy. “Night Creeps”, one of the strongest tracks of the album and a carryover from the demo, is a fine example of the band’s ability to create or potentiate euphoria through the repetition of fuzzed-out riffs and interstellar guitar leads...”

“… vocalist Jeff Owens is rather reminiscent of a young Ozzy, and there’s plenty of guitar complexity here. It’s orchestrated into intelligently structured compositions that make the whole album eminently listenable. 4.0”

“...On some moments it feels like a lost recording of Sleep or Black Sabbath turned up. Also in part due to the amazing vocals that even sound like Ozzy on occasion and that small bluesy twinge reeking of something occult. But it’s that heavy doom and sludgy hard rock that gives us that furious malevolent boost. 777, it’s the new number of the beast!...”

“...This is not just a collection of songs pasted together. It seems to my uneducated ears that thought has been put into making an actual album. If this had been released in the mid-70s it would be described as genre defining. It’s that good...”

“...Land ”Rites of Hashing“ after ”The Chosen Few“ from EW's 2007 release and the listener would be forgiven for expecting ”Tourquemada '71“ was up next. ”Death's Approaching Lullaby“ is the best song EW never wrote.^^ All of which is to say that Goya's 777 is frightfully exceptional stoner metal that dooms to the masters, that dares to out-wizard the Wizard...”