Poland's Behemoth have returned with a new recording which displays 3 decades of their black, death and blackened death metal material in a concert setting and this is a review of their triple live album "XXX Years of Blasphemy" which was released in 2024 by Nuclear Blast Records.
Epic sounding keyboards start off the album along with some acoustic guitars a few seconds later before going into a very fast and raw black metal direction which also utilizes a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats. Vocals are mostly death metal screams mixed in with a few screams.
A great portion of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while also of the musical instruments also have a very powerful sound to them. The songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with the solos and leads also bringing in a very chaotic yet melodic style.
The riffs also add in a decent amount of melody along with some of the tracks also adding in a small amount of clean playing. All 3 of the discs are divided into different chapters as well as some choirs and ritualistic spoken word parts also being utilized briefly and the second disc sees the music evolving from black metal to blackened death metal.
At times the music also gets very brutal sounding as well as some of the more orchestrated sections of certain tracks also adding in a touch of classical music and the more current material brings in more modern death metal style. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover Slavic Paganism, Thelema, Satanism, Occultism, Left Hand Path and Anti Christian themes.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding collection from Behemoth and if you are a fan of this band, you should check out this triple live album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUD E "Lasy Pomorza" "Pure Evil And Hate" "Christians To The Lions" and "O Father o Satan O Sun!". 8 out of 10.
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