Remember when black metal was EVIL? (??????!!!!????). I was looking at an old copy of Slayer 'zine number nine the other day, and it in was an interview/photo's of/with Holocausto. The interview was fucking great, but the photos...!!!!! Covered in blood, spikes, LONG hair...he truly was (notice the *was*) the epitome of REAL black metal. Anyways...what is this album like? Well, if your going to ask a lover of REAL, violent, sick black metal like myself (or "that crap that doesn't sound like CoF" to the weaklings out there) I'd have to say it's fucking perfect. Fuck melody, forget song structures, and hail violence, evil, and black metal purity. Vocals range from being deep grunts to simply screeched at chaotic levels, drums are violently beaten, guitars race up and down the fret-board at insane levels (creating what can be referred to as "anti-riffs")...THIS IS FUCKING GREAT!!!! There's really no point in tracking this down if you haven't heard it already...or worship silly new stuff like CoF/Satyricon. This is a classic album (Beherit were NOT Blasphemy rip-offs), created with so classic a sound that it deserves to be loved/understood by a very small segment of the metal community. Seriously though, Beherit are a violent, melody-free band. The music on this disc (and in a lesser fashion from there on, not including the drug-induced ambient/techno albums) creates a foul sounding wall of noise, and because of that really should not be recommended. If you have yet to witness the art that is Beherit, you most likely will not understand what they are capable of creating. Thus, it's sort of a flip-sided decision for you ;)

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