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Rating: After completely abandoning the Black metal sounds of their early days (from the various "Sventevith" and "Grom") and embracing a typically American Death sound, very technical and elaborate, with the previous "Satanica", the Polish band Behemoth released "Thelema 6" in 2000 exactly one year after the last one.
This album that I am about to review is a more than devastating record that definitively consecrates them as one of the best extreme acts in recent years, confirming that this change in style was an excellent choice by the band, which in my opinion has done nothing but evolve their sound from every point of view. With this album, Behemoth continues the musical discourse already started with the excellent "Satanica", however, improving some aspects such as greater attention to arrangements and a technical level that is even higher, where the drumming of "Inferno" reaches the limits of human madness.
The tracks are then much more direct and ferocious than in the past. The impact with the first track "Antichristian phenomenon" is shocking, it seems like you're dealing with a true sonic apocalypse, created by the perfect fusion of fast rhythms and dark riffs with Nergal's angry and fierce voice. This style continues with the successive tracks "The art of rebellion", "Inflamed with rage", and "Pan Satyros", songs that leave you breathless and do not give the listener a moment of pause, petrified by such violence. "Natural born philosopher" and "Christians to the lions" deserve a separate mention, in my opinion, the most successful episodes on the album. The first is a very elaborate piece, where we have a majestic crescendo, one of the most spectacular ever heard, which calms down in a beautiful acoustic interlude only to return to pure sonic terrorism. As for "Christians to the lions", I already suggest what kind of song it is. Also noteworthy is the experimental closing track "23 (the Youth Manifesto)".
If you have had a bad day and are very angry for any reason, listening to this CD is the best way to unleash your most primal instincts.
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By post-ino
The mix between death and black here is carried out skillfully and never seems to be a cut and paste of their works from the early '00s.
'O Father, O Satan, O Sun!' incorporates practically all the aforementioned sounds without ever seeming redundant and constantly keeping the listener’s attention alive.
