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The Goat of Mendes
The Goat of Mendes is the second studio album by English death metal band Akercocke. It was released on 11 September 2001, through Peaceville Records.
Release.
"The Goat of Mendes" was released in standard and digipak CD format. The album included a music video for "Infernal Rites". A video for "Horns of Baphomet" was also released in 2001.
Dean Seddon, at the time vocalist of symphonic black metal band Hecate Enthroned, provided backing vocals for the track
to the throne (a theory based on depictions found in several Theban temples in Mendes).
Occultist Eliphas Levi in his "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" (1855), combined the images of the Tarot of Marseilles' Devil card and refigured the ram Banebdjed as a he-goat, calling it the "Baphomet of Mendes," (or, "Goat of Mendes"). The inaccurate description can be traced back to "Herodotus' Histories Book II", where Herodotus describes the deity of