Stereogum skriver om Darkthrone 's album Goatlord:
"Regardless of how it came to arrive here, the world is a better place with Goatlord than it would be without. The album truly sounds like nothing else, anywhere, ever, falling somewhere between avant garde and outsider art, except the variety of authorial intents makes even those categorizations inaccurate: It began life as a technical death metal album with four musicians eagerly adding new parts and twists to unformed songs, then its evolution was halted, and when it began again, it was under the stewardship of one man attempting to make songs that sounded like Autopsy demos sound like early King Diamond recordings. Needless to say, the album has its detractors: Goatlord is uneasy listening even compared to Darkthrone's most necro work. Many fans regard it as a nadir; others as an unnecessary curio; and others as a minor highlight. And then, there is a camp that sees it as the finest single work in the band's catalog. Among that latter group is Agalloch/Ludicra drummer Aesop Dekker, who wrote about the album on his obscuro-metal blog Cosmic Hearse, calling it, "discomforting and intimate…. This is the most kult release by the most kult band. That alone should be enough for you.""