BEHEMOTH

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: POL
Style: devastating satanic black death metal

climbing up the complexity and intensity ladder with each consequent album, Polish supergroup has reached a point of necessity to recharge the batteries, with these twelve cuts [2018] descending down the mountain with noticeably stripped down, groovier and to the point material - they did not make something similar in years, so part of the recent fanbase have turned the backs to this opus, but on the other hand shorter compositions bring the music back to the limelight of extreme metal which is catchy and momentous, moreover that familiar dramatic mood and mesmerizing rifforama reveal a specific Behemoth approach which is hardly removable after so many years of the darkest achievements; recent exclusive German tour edition comes as 40 page hardcover mediabook with alternate cover artwork, four extra versions of album songs, recorded live in BBC radio studio in 2018 for the Rock Show, as well as additional bluray disk with Thou Art Darkest documentary, delving into the creative process behind ILYAYD