“Constricting Rage of the Merciless” was recorded with producer Erik Rutan at Mana Recording Studios in St, Petersburg, FL, This is Goatwhore's fourth studio outing with Rutan at the helm, and to achieve an even more dark and powerful tone on this album, all drums, bass, and rhythm guitars were tracked to 2-inch tape! Fans will hear new music within the next few weeks at metalblade.com/go­atwhore.

Erik Rutan commented on the recording sessions: “Working with Goatwhore again for our 4th album together was amazing! It is through our experience and established trust and bond in the studio that allowed us to push each other to the limits, only to achieve the best performances and tones we could, This album came out so dynamic and huge, partly due to the fact that we recorded drums, bass, and main rhythm guitars to analog tape, Goatwhore has a massive sound and we all felt recording to analog would be the best way to capture it, giving it a very unique quality and feel, built off of integrity and vibe, This is our finest moment working together and the guys did an incredible job creating and performing all the songs on this record, Goatwhore fans be prepared!”

Review
Forget that it sounds like the Bayou-based decibel crushers elicited the moniker for their sixth studio long-player from a generic black metal title generator, Constricting Rage of the Merciless is as punishing a collection of songs as one is likely to come across in 2014. Even more concise and streamlined than 2012's relentless Blood for the Master, Constricting finds the veteran New Orleans band so dialed in that there may as well be nobody listening. Rather than mess with the formula, Goatwhore opted to simply turn up everything and let the sparks fly, resulting in the least forward-thinking, yet most sonically rewarding album of their career, offering up a bludgeoning ten-song attack that's as accessible as it is neck snapping, with highlights arriving via textbook blackened metal confections like “Poisonous Existence in Reawakening,” “Nocturnal Conjuration of the Accursed,” “Unraveling Paradise,” and the sneaky and serpentine yet surprisingly melodic “Schadenfreude.” In fact, outside of the spaced-out intro to the appropriately titled “Cold Earth Consumed in Dying Flesh,” a punishing, funereal, post-pub crawl of a song, there isn't a moment of respite in Constricting Rage of the Merciless, and really, with a name like that, why should there be? Once again, Goatwhore is on the cusp of nothing and waving it in your face. They are ruthlessly efficient, unmerciful, redundant, triumphant, and wholly invested in darkness, volume, destruction, and little else. James Christopher Monger – Allmusic.com