German pagan metallers GOAT OF MENDES have uploaded pre-production versions of two new songs to their MySpace page. The band will enter the studio in early October to begin recording its fifth album, "Consort of the Dying God", for an early 2009 release. According to the group, the CD will be "a full concept album featuring at least 60 minutes of very heavy and very Wiccan metal the GOM way. It's a bit early to reveal any details about the lyrical concept yet, but we'll have a hard time to cram it all in one CD booklet... We will not stray a single inch from the Wiccan way by jumping on the current pagan bandwagon! We delved deep into Hungarian and Romanian folklore, so you're in for yet another new facet of GOM."

GOAT OF MENDES's fourth album, "A Book of Shadows", was released in January 2005.