Behemoth are a band from Poland that has had music reviewed before in the zine and on this recording played more of an atmospheric style of pagan black metal which is a lot more different then the blackened death metal style that they got more well known for in t he past 2 decades and this is a review of their 1996 album "Grom" which was re-issued in 2023 by Metal Blade Records and also consists of rehearsal and live songs as bonus tracks that where not included on the original version.
Epic sounding keyboards start off the album and also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can b e heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling and all of the musical, instruments also have a very powerful sound to them.
A great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing. Vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams along with some songs also adding in a small amount of acoustic guitars and throughout the recording you can also hear a decent mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts.
Clear male vocals can also be heard on a couple of tracks as well as one song also adding in a brief use of female vocals along with the solos and leads also being done in a very melodic style. Angry shouts and spoken word parts can also be heard at times, they also bring in some Mayhem, Destruction and Kat covers and the rehearsal's also have a more rawer sound than the album. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover Slavic and Baltic Paganism and the songwriting brings in a mixture of both the English and Polish languages.
In my opinion this was another great sounding recording from Behemoth and if you are a fan of 90's era pagan black metal, you should check out this re-issue. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Dark Forest (Cast me Your Spell)" "Lasy Pomorza" and "Grom". 8/5 out of 10.
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