BE-HE-MOOOOOOOTHHHHH!!!!
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 4:00pm by Vince Neilstein
I can’t speak for the other inhabitants of the MS Mansion (especially Kip, who’s been cuddled away in the Wingerschmidt Wing for weeks now), but I, for one, am very much enjoying the new Behemoth record Evangelion. This shit slays, crushes, destroys, kills, insert your choice metal cliche adjective here and that’s what it does. The songwriting is great, and ultimately that’s what makes it good; but what strikes me most is the quality of mixing compared to past Behemoth efforts (that I’ve heard, anyway. Admittedly, I’ve never much listened to this band before, as ridiculous as that seems). The tones on this record are positively crushing. So upon a little Googling I was able to determine that it was Colin Richardson who twiddled the knobs to such delicious effect this time around — duh, should’ve known.
Check out the brand new track “Shemhamforash” currently streaming on Behemoth’s MySpace page. The album drops August 11th in the U.S. (and August 7th in Europe).
-VN
You have no idea how excited I am to see Behemoth tomorrow. I don’t think I’m gonna be able to sleep tonight. This band is so good.
You and me both, man. Hope the corpse-paint doesn’t run in the heat.
i’m not telling anybody but it leaked oops!!! good album
album of the year
It slays, nuff said. I found out they were mixing this like 5 mins from my house and nearly shat a brick.
definately one of the best this year.
I’ve listened to about half of this so far. Pretty \m/ and that’s saying a lot since I’m not really into Behemoth. I don’t know why I gave this one a listen. Maybe I should give their back catalog a 2nd chance…
My mate let me listen to the new album as it leaked a couple of week back and its brutal as hell, the drumming is ridiculously precise and may have just sold me a reason to go see the Devildriver euro tour
I’d skip Devildriver if you know what’s good for you.
DAMN YEAH!!! BEHEMOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Brootality at it’s best…) Why didn’t their last album 2 albums did not make your (BS) Top 25 albums. It counfounds me.
The Apstasy and Demigod are mutherfucken great albums…
Scary doods who hate God and like crows.
Woo hoo! They’re worth a trip into deepest, darkest NJ to see (along with Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, et al)
I MET BEHEMOTH IN DENVER 7 19 09 AT MAYHEM THE MUSIC WAS BRUTAL BUT THEY ARE ASSHOLES
YOU KNOW THAT ONE KEY ON YOUR KEYBOARD?
TO THE LEFT OF THE “A”?
THAT ONE THAT SAYS BILLY MAYS ON IT?
HIT THAT BEFORE YOU TYPE SOMETHING AGAIN
You want them to be nice and friendly?
Is there music nice and friendly?
I’m going to guess they’re not assholes (as evidenced by their recent behind the scenes docs), but that you’re just insufferable to be around. If you’re this annoying online I can only imagine it gets worse in person.
They are far from being assholes. Way back in 02′ or 03, when they toured the states with Amon Amarth, I ended up on the bus with these guys until late the next afternoon. They were all great dudes, and shared liberal amounts of Polish vodka, fish and lots of great cocaine and weed. The drummer, Nergal, and the bassist at the time all piled into my Corolla to go get Gyros at lunch time after the all night binge. They were quite amazed with the Gyros, having never had them before. Good times.
That’s awesome. I always love hearing stuff like this, especially about bands I appreciate.
And add me to the list of those who have been enjoying the new album. I’m buying it Day One.
Honestly, I’ve kinda lost interest in them. I didn’t even hear “The Apostasy”. I don’t like much super compressed, technical death metal. Don’t get me wrong, they are awesome at what they do, and haven’t ’sold out’ in any way, but its just not my cup of tea. I like my death metal old and dirty…..Morbid Angel, Grave, Unleashed,(old)Deicide and for newer acts, I think Necros Christos from Germany is the best thing since sliced bread.
They certainly were cool dudes, and Nergal LOVES his cocaine. At least he used to!
Maybe I’ll check out this album and the apostasy, Im sure one of my friends have them.
Fucking EPIC/ Brutal/ METAL album…can’t take it off my car cd !!!!!
If these guys were from southern california, and “Ov Fire and Void” was their very first single, they would be flammed as deathcore.
just an observation.
Hail Behemoth.
You mean just by song name, not the actual song, right? The “ov” shit is annoying, Zyklon did it too. Must be an eastern-west-Europe thing.
Ov Fire and Void doesn’t sound anything like deathcore to me and Zyklon is awesome and needs to tour and release new material.
Well, yes. Agreed. I think he meant just meant the spelling.
no i didnt mean the spelling mean the song itself.
i hope the mixing is better i hate how the symbals sounded on apostasy