I Loved You at Your Darkest
Behemoth’s 11th album doesn’t blast open with a gust of thunderous drums or shredding guitars. Instead, something far more terrifying: a children’s choir. Innocent voices, possessed, chant: “Elohim! I shall not forgive!/Adonai! I shall not forgive!/Living God! I shall not forgive!/Jesus Christ! I forgive thee not!” The unholy mantra sets a nightmarish scene for the Polish blackened death metal band’s most accessible—but no less diabolical—album yet. Flipping a middle finger at their nemesis, Christianity, Behemoth relish flaying and twisting hymns, Bible references, and prayers into infernal noise. The trembling “Havohej Pantocrator” revises the Lord’s Prayer: “Our father, who art in hell/Unhallowed be Thy name/Thy legions come/Thy enemies begone/On Earth as it is in the Netherworld.” Like 2014’s masterpiece *The Satanist*, *I Loved You at Your Darkest* pushes far beyond the extreme sound that they\'ve perfected for more than 20 years: Rock rhythms, acoustic guitars, and atmospheric melodies slice through pounding riffs and brutal howls in ways that, surprisingly, make this journey even *more* intense and exhilarating than ever.
With a title that sounds ripped from Gerard Way's first lyric booklet (it's actually a quote from Jesus Christ), Behemoth are already taking...
BEHEMOTH has come a long way since its humble early days as an obscure, dark, melodic black metal band. It truly has gone on to become behemoth in terms of both its musical and commercial growth, with its outlandish music and performances deemed worthy enough to have earned them a coveted slot on SL...
Fraser Wilson reviews the brand new album from Behemoth. Read his review of I Loved You At Your Darkest here on Distorted Sound!
Aside from a few hiccups here and there in the overall flow of the record, I Loved You At Your Darkest is good. You'll come back to it over the next few years, as will I, because it's a solid listen through and through that showcases a band stretching out its leathery wings and taking flight beyond
A review of Behemoth, I Loved You at Your Darkest which is out from Nuclear Blast Records worldwide on the 5th of October. Is ILYaYD Behemoth's darkest yet?
Polish band’s 11th album is a romp that could appeal to more than hardcore metalheads
Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest review: O Father, O Satan, O Sun / Let the children come to thee…