Danish doom metal band Goatsmoker announces new album and shares first single

Goatsmoker is a four-piece Copenhagen-based doom metal band whose sound thrives in the tension between weight and atmosphere. Emerging from the city’s underground in 2015, the band forged its identity in a Cold War bunker — a fitting birthplace for a sound steeped in decay, heaviness, and human fatigue. Goatsmoker now announces their second album E.R.I.S., which will be released on March 20, 2026 via Vinyltroll Records and today, you can get a taste of the album with the single Gods of Gunzilla and the accompanying video, created by the band themselves.

Guitarist and vocalist Andreas Krohn states on the new song and video:

““Gods…” is one of the tracks from the album that has been with us the longest, and for us as a band it’s the song that marks a significant shift in our musical expression — moving away from our earlier, more stoner-influenced sound and into the heavier and dirtier realms of doom.

With the video, we’ve tried to create a sense of space, color, and visual atmosphere for everything that exists in between the lyrics and the music. It’s meant as a kind of companion to the song — something that hopefully helps the viewer/listener create a space in which to interpret and shape their own experience of the track.

Guitarist Magnus and I recorded and produced the video ourselves over a couple of days in January, with help from a few friends. As a band, we place great importance in doing as much as we can ourselves. That goes for everything — from recording and mixing our albums to photography, visual designs, and now this video as well.”

E.R.I.S. will be released on vinyl in two limited editions and digital formats, and the vinyl can now be pre-ordered via Bandcamp HERE and Vinyltroll Records HERE. The day after the release, on March 21, Goatsmoker will play a release concert at Basement in Copenhagen with special guests Trippelgänger and Buskas, and tickets can be purchased HERE.

GOATSMOKER – E.R.I.S.

Artwork by Dylan J. Davis

E.R.I.S. Track list:
1. Cursed
2. Waiting
3. God of Gunzilla
4. Entropy Reigns in Silence
5. Dakhma

Goatsmoker’s music is defined by its insistence on imperfection — downtuned, fuzz-driven guitars, crushing bass, and drums that feel like they measure time in heartbeats rather than beats per minute. The band doesn’t chase precision or genre; they chase resonance, atmosphere, and the human pulse behind their sound. Their 2022 debut E.O.T.A. introduced this philosophy: riffs that drag like gravity, compositions that breathe, and an ear for the eerie that makes every note feel inevitable.

Their second full-length album, E.R.I.S., amplifies these ideas into a darker, slower, and heavier form. Recorded live over a week in a freezing barn in rural Sweden, the album captures both the grit of performance and the fragility of humanity. Every hum, creak, and subtle flaw was preserved — nothing was polished away. The album’s title refers to the track Entropy Reigns in Silence, and to Eris, the Greek goddess of strife, as well as serving as a symbolic echo of their debut. Across five tracks, the record explores themes of entropy, decay, and moral collapse, examining a world teetering on the brink from a sharp, anti-religious perspective.

Produced and mixed by the band itself and mastered by Simon Sonne (ORM), E.R.I.S. channels both chaos and control. Its five sprawling compositions merge doom’s weight with the texture and patience of post-metal. From the monolithic heaviness of Gods of Gunzilla to the unpredictable, almost progressive shifts in Entropy Reigns in Silence, and the hypnotic repetition of Cursed, the album traces a spectrum of doom both immediate and cosmic. Guest vocals by Lasse Flaaten Husmer of the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir add a haunting edge to the track Dakhma, reinforcing the album’s sense of desolation and grace.

E.R.I.S. is a document of surrender, patience, and witness — the sound of a band fully embracing imperfection, space, and time, and of a world unraveling toward its own impending doom.