German metal band formed in the early 1990s, noted in reviews as a pioneer of Dark/Depressive Black metal and influential for extreme, experimental approaches to vocals and atmosphere.

Reviews highlight the 1996 album Dictius Te Necare and the album commonly referred to as S.U.I.Z.I.D. (Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligioeser Darbietung) as highly influential; vocalists such as Rainer Landfermann and guest Marco Kehren are discussed in the reviews for their extreme vocal approaches.

Two reviews emphasize Bethlehem's pioneering role in Dark/Depressive Black metal. Dictius Te Necare is described as influential and experimental; Sardonischer Untergang (S.U.I.Z.I.D.) is presented as a masterpiece of desperate, cathartic music. Vocals (Landfermann, Kehren) and bleak atmospheres are repeatedly highlighted.

For:Fans of extreme metal, depressive black metal, avant-garde metal and listeners interested in the history of dark/extreme subgenres.

 DTN is a work both delicate and thunderous, "refined" and "vulgar": whirlwind accelerations and seismic shocks coexist with sepulchral loops and gigantic sections, intimate arpeggios at the ambient limit make their way among testosterone outbursts typical of a certain boorishness from European Thrash.

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 "S.U.I.Z.I.D." is the album where these principles find their most successful and profound application; the masterpiece of the group that, along with a few others, kicked off the German Depressive Black tradition.

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