The band started out playing
pure Black Metal, but has evolved into a Blackened Death Metal band.
Discography
Endless Damnation
Demo, 1992
The Return Of The Northern Moon
Demo, 1992
And the Forests Dream Eternally
EP, 1993
...From the Pagan Vastlands
Full-length, 1994
Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)
Full-length, 1995
Grom
Full-length, 1996
And the Forests Dream Eternally / Forbidden
Spaces
Split, 1997
Bewitching The Pomerania
EP, 1997
Pandemonic Incantations
Full-length, 1998
Chaotica- The Essence of the Underworld
Best of/Compilation, 1999
Satanica
Full-length, 1999
Thelema.6
Full-length, 2000
Antichristian Phenomenon
EP, 2001
Historica
Boxed set, 2002
Live in Toulouse
Live album, 2002
Live Eschaton-The Art of Rebellion
DVD, 2002
Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Full-length, 2002
Conjuration
EP, 2003
Behemoth are not so loved in their Poland but
together with Graveland they surely deserve the paternity of that scene. In the
Behemoth sound of the early days I can hear a clear Bathory influence, mixed
with the darkness of Immortal’s opus "Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism",
this is the essence of their ‘92 demo "The
Return Of The Northern Moon" and of the excellent demo "From The Pagan
Vastlands" (1994), shortly, because of the quality of that last, Pagan
Records decided to release the demo on cd (Vote 8.5). An incredible sombre mood
dominates the sound of "From...", an occult saga of darkness, a new
dark age. I can also find some similarities with the Enslaved split with
Emperor, but there’s much grimness in that demo.
"Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)"
(Vote 8.5) is the right continuation of "From..", there was still
the same mysterious aura in the black saga of the Poland band. "Storming..."
tried
with success to express the darkest side of the medieval age of the
barbarian’s invasions in music. The Norwegian influence is audible, with its
naturalistic icy wind, but with a personal touch, without the risk to become a
blank-copy.
The first Behemoth’s stop came with the ’96
album "Grom" (Vote 6.5), nothing much then a far release, an album
surely not comparable to the previous works. In this the classical epic-black
metal sound meets retro-thrash riffs, without the same quality level. The
concept remained the same but the music was going away from the path and I
have to mention the horrible female and male clean-vocals performance, simply
funny, sometimes I think if Nergal have really hear that before
the final
mix…The ’97 mcd "Bewitching The Pomerania" was a bit
controversial, but Behemoth were losing interesting in the pagan-epic black
theme to go back to the roots of evilness (Bathory), following a vast trend
that was plaguing the scene. Fortunately the "Pandemic Incantation"
(Vote 7.5) release (1998) remains a good album, a black-death-thrash mixture
that have almost completely forget the ethnic mood of the early releases,
because there’s an ancient satanic hellish atmosphere inside that music,
nothing Slavonic. A great, probably the better compared to the previous
albums, drum attach accomplished a new musical face for Behemoth. Sadly Nergal
decided to transform his almost unique sound in a conventional and a bit
trendy death-thrash band, again following a big movement in the scene. "Satanica"
(1999 Vote 6.5) is nothing by a try to reach a wider audience and also the
metallic stereotype that is "Thelema 6" (2000 Vote: 6), and do
Nergal think that it’s still extreme music????
Return Of The Northern Moon" and of the excellent demo "From The Pagan
Vastlands" (1994), shortly, because of the quality of that last, Pagan
Records decided to release the demo on cd (Vote 8.5). An incredible sombre mood
dominates the sound of "From...", an occult saga of darkness, a new
dark age. I can also find some similarities with the Enslaved split with
Emperor, but there’s much grimness in that demo.
the final
mix…The ’97 mcd "Bewitching The Pomerania" was a bit
controversial, but Behemoth were losing interesting in the pagan-epic black
theme to go back to the roots of evilness (Bathory), following a vast trend
that was plaguing the scene. Fortunately the "Pandemic Incantation"
(Vote 7.5) release (1998) remains a good album, a black-death-thrash mixture
that have almost completely forget the ethnic mood of the early releases,
because there’s an ancient satanic hellish atmosphere inside that music,
nothing Slavonic. A great, probably the better compared to the previous
albums, drum attach accomplished a new musical face for Behemoth. Sadly Nergal
decided to transform his almost unique sound in a conventional and a bit
trendy death-thrash band, again following a big movement in the scene. "Satanica"
(1999 Vote 6.5) is nothing by a try to reach a wider audience and also the
metallic stereotype that is "Thelema 6" (2000 Vote: 6), and do
Nergal think that it’s still extreme music????
