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THE REVIEW
This is a review that attempts to emulate the speed and executive violence of the band syntactically.
GO!
The Behemoth is a strong and courageous animal.
The invincible Behemoth is a creature of God and subjected to him.
But its courage is as worthy as its greasy and sticky fame, dirtied, annoying...
And so the Behemoth frolics in the skies, through its superpowers between flatulence and free burping, thus infesting the villages in its path.
Its ways are those of a villain and on par have no equal...
The Behemoth needs a lesson!
Wiiilllllllllllllll our heroes, a friendly quartet of anticlerical intellectuals, manage to defeat the beast that spreads its stench everywhere!!!?
Will they manage to solve the dilemma that so afflicts human poverty so as to reintegrate their lineage in the eyes of very Catholic Poland and acquire the name of the beast, thus attempting to climb the higher echelons of a more suitable mainstream?!
Breaking out of the underground, if that is written in their destiny, experimenting with the best their ingenuity requires!
"Pandemonic Incantations", the third album released in 1998, is the forerunner of the band's project shift, moving from the cornerstones of the black metal school, like Satanism, to themes such as occultism and Thelema.
The project installs a new lineup that replaces the members involved the previous year in the Grom project: Baal Ravenlock (drums) + Les (bass) with new fixtures such as Dr. Zbigniew Robert "Inferno" Prominski (Percussion and drums) and Mefisto (Bass, backing vocals).
It's pointless to emphasize the technical contribution guaranteed by the two, a freshness that will ensure future and constant improvements, in terms of technique and compositional ability, such as to characterize that stylistic and conceptual evolution so sought after, conjoined to the physiological age of the group, freeing those black metal stilisms, classifying it within the new blackened death metal trend.
Structures and partitions thus become more intricate, the composite violence of the tracks, both technically and in terms of the arguments dealt with, results in being qualitatively more complex and thorny compared to other bands of the genre.
What guarantees subtlety and individuality to the project is the constant pursuit in the use of scales that refer to Middle Eastern sounds and atmospheres with a taste of the occult that coordinate with avant-garde sounds ("The Thousand Plagues I Witness", "Driven by the Five-Winged Star" and "Chwala Mordercom Wojciecha"), soon to become distinctive components of the group.
The rhythm section scores points, thanks to Inferno's contribution ("Satan’s Sword" and "Thy Pandemaeternum"), which guarantees greater precision and speed, such as to base a perfect command with the holistic concept of pure violence imparted by the vocalist and string sections, the latter expressed within technical death metal of great quality ("The Past is Like a Funeral" and "The Entrance to the Spheres of Mars").
It took just over 40’ for Nergal & Co. to destabilize the metal environments and tell all the polluting slop that so plagues this genre to fuck off: bands with frustrated/fanatical/ignorant fans in tow...
Wishing Nergal a speedy recovery!
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The review praises Behemoth's 1998 album 'Pandemonic Incantations' as a pivotal release marking the band's shift from pure black metal to a more complex blackened death metal style. It highlights new band members' technical contributions and the use of Middle Eastern scales and occult themes that add depth. The album is recognized for its intricate structures, quality performances, and aggressive yet refined sound. The reviewer wishes the band leader Nergal a speedy recovery.Tracklist Lyrics
04 In Thy Pandemaeternum (04:50)
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Behemoth
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band formed in 1991. Reviews describe an evolution from cold, atmospheric black metal in the mid-1990s to a more technical blackened death metal style from Satanica onward, with drummer Inferno and frontman/guitarist-vocalist Nergal frequently highlighted.18 Reviews
