Track By Tracks: Deathgoat - Dragged Into Realms Below (2025)

1. Alkulima:

N: I think that album intros (or outros) should be part of the songs on the album, not just minute-long ambient noise with some whispers, so they can also serve as part of the setlist as well. I think that Anaal Nathrakh and Dismember have mastered this, so I wanted to approach this the same way. We actually played this already a few times live, and most likely put it back on the setlist at some point. Doom and misery before the storm hits, as it should be.

2. Pestilent Retribution:

N: This song was actually the first one we wrote for the album after finishing ”Regurgitated Into Existence”. This song became more grindy and fast forward, and seemed to work on our setlist as well, so this naturally also gave some frame and idea of how the other songs should be written.

PW: Flu season takes a nasty turn when blood and various other bodily fluids are secreted from every orifice imaginable. When you’re coughing out your lungs and staring at the business end of a mass grave, the time for cough drops and chicken soup has probably passed.

3.  Congregation of disease:

N: The 90's Stockholm scene is a big influence on us, and because on the first album we more or less mimicked Entombed, this time the target was early Dismember, and I think this song serves as some tribute to that direction, with our own twists, of course. Outcome is a fast-paced song that really deserves to be blasted loud in our live shows. This is also the first time our other guitarist, M, and I contributed some “Iron Maiden” style solos together!

PW: The only thing more fun than murder is mass murder, topped off with mass suicide. The things we do for a place in paradise have no limits when you’re just the right kind of insane.

4. Dying to be dead:

N: This song became the fastest one on the album, and also has the most modern vibe in it when compared to other songs. However, the inspiration for this, of course, bows to the Stockholm scene as well. I believe this song really sums up all the inspiration and meaning behind why Deathgoat was started as a band a decade earlier.

PW: This one’s a nihilistic outburst about the downsides of eternal life. Being forced to watch humanity fuck up millenium after another might help one realise there are worse things than death.

5. Compulsive cannibalism:

PW: Reasons for cannibalism are as numerous as the meals themselves. It’s a long way to the top of the food chain, and the fall down is even longer. Survival of the hungriest, indeed.

N: Although our main inspiration comes from Scandinavian and Finnish bands, I must give some credit to the gentlemen in mighty England, especially in the Birmingham scene. Their motto is “Forward” and that really can be heard in their music. You know if you know... I mixed that style with some slower and melodic mid-section, and M contributed again with a killer solo, which gave some extra level of danger to the mix.

6. Monoxcide:

PW: A recurring theme on our albums is the history of homicide in our hometown Hyvinkää. Monoxide takes us on a road trip with Ensio “Carbon monoxide-Enska” Koivunen. Once you’re in his car, there’s no way out alive.

N: I wanted to create a song that has some brutal effects with a style that reminds me of our local kings of Death Metal here in Finland, the mighty Torture Killer, and mixed with Bloodbath. This is kind of a spiritual successor to the song “Carniwhore” on our first album; however, this time the tempo stays higher, and riffs are more brutal. One of my personal favorites on this album and on our live set.

7. Flashback psychosis:

PW: When I wrote this song many years ago, Deathgoat was still searching for its true form. My taste in music was still shifting from thrash to death metal, and we’re not exactly trying to hide it. For reasons unknown, we decided to exhume this long-lost offering and speed it up a little.

Back then, I had recently finished my military training, which at that time obviously seemed like the absolutely hardest thing the human body and mind could be subjected to. Of course, the war in Ukraine has since put things in perspective, but also made the subject matter unfortunately topical. Even if the body stays relatively intact, the mind might be lost forever with devastating consequences.

N: Our singer, PW, wrote “Chainsaw Abortion” for the first album, and since his writing skills were already proven, of course, we didn’t say no to this one either. The outcome is one of the most brutal ones on the album and a nice break from the other songs. Also, a little bit of Slayer is never a bad thing!

8. Clinically Undead:

L.F: I found myself nagging about many of the songs being too turbo-charged tempo-wise wise so naturally I wanted to bring more of that sweet, good old mid-tempo chugging to the record. And the track starts in the best possible way; bass and drums, hell yes!

PW: Organ donors may be hard to find, especially if the recipient is dead. In situations like this, the obvious choice is to move on to less voluntary donors. However, some people should stay dead.

9. Dragged Into Realms Below:

PW: The album culminates in an abstract journey from the grave to the underworld - a wholesome union of Dante’s Inferno and a potent acid trip. The journey itself is more important than the destination, since perdition awaits at the end of the line.

N: This song is kind of a personal tribute to the Finnish 90’s Death Metal scene and was done with inspiration from early Sentenced and Cartilage, just to mention a few. The song itself is pushing determinedly forward with drums that are kind of leading the band, while different styles of riffs and melodies do their own thing and wrap the album nicely together. I’m a huge fan of early Paradise Lost, so naturally I also had to put those vibes into the song. Personally, this is my favorite song on the album and kind of a magnum opus in my personal catalog.