Behemoth: Opvs Contra Natvram
(Nuclear Blast)
CD Digibook, Digital Album, Vinyl and Vinyl Earbook and Field Set
Obtainable: 16 September 2022
Behemoth launch their twelfth studio album, Opvs Contra Natvram, and it’s fairly merely considered one of their greatest.
Behemoth have now been on the metallic scene for over three a long time, and Opvs Contra Natvram is their twelfth studio album. The album title, guitarist and vocalist Adam Darski, aka Nergal, has described as which means “going in opposition to the present”. Which is a really apt description for the musical journal Behemoth have been on, with an ostensibly underground outlook, and a capability to always develop the vary and ambition of their musical perspective on metallic. A band that by no means stands nonetheless, you may hear black metallic, demise metallic, progressive rock, and even hints of jazz and classical music of their work. They’ve additionally been commercially profitable whereas retaining their underground aura.
The album opens with the atmospheric Publish God Nirvana, the place eerie digital sounds are disrupted by a marching percussion and an epic soundscape, that enables full reign to Nergal’s railing spoken vocal and a few unusual chanting. With a formidable manufacturing change, the amount dial goes to eleven, and second tune Malaria Vulgata thunders out of the audio system. A musical shock, that early on calls for you give this album your full consideration. Malaria Vulgata is a dynamic mixture of intense blast beats, and massively reverberating guitars, that appears like a supercharged tackle shoegaze.
The Deathless Solar widens the sonic palette even additional, with a refrain that has an operatic timbre, and a few putting choral vocal moments. The solo guitar work is dynamic and quick, flying above the intricate wall of musical sounds. Ov My Herculean Exile brings to the fore some progressive rock components, with its swooping and at one level fairly stunning and echoing, guitar elements.
Disinheritance is likely one of the most advanced and nuanced songs rhythmically, with gorgeous adjustments of time signature, and waves of polyrhythmic percussion that sounds each fierce and one way or the other delicate. There has clearly been a variety of thought gone into the composition, taking part in, and manufacturing on this album, which permits each instrument and vocal, area to breathe musically and shine. Nergal has commented that with the pandemic the band didn’t have the standard touring pressures whereas placing this album collectively. It actually reveals, with a powerful sense of music that’s the product of pure evolution, improvement, and refinement.
As soon as Upon A Pale Horse, is a really persuasive mixture of black metallic and groove metallic, that has a really infectious guitar riff and an virtually jazz swing to the drums and cymbal work. Within the dwell setting that is sure to generate some mass headbanging and crowd browsing. Thy Turning into Everlasting is a crushing mixture of black metallic and demise metallic, with a splash of symphonic metallic added into the combination and is accompanied by a really putting music video.
Closing observe Versvs Christvs, in full distinction, begins with rhapsodic piano and clear vocals earlier than metamorphosing right into a gently muted black metallic march, that’s each stately and understated. Then after all Behemoth slam into one other full-on metallic onslaught. It is a fairly wonderful musical suite to conclude this very spectacular album with. For this reviewer, the album simply stands with the easiest of Behemoth’s studio work.
Behemoth will likely be on tour later this month, with Arch Enemy, Carcass and Unto Others, and Louder Than Struggle will likely be there for what guarantees to be an epic dwell present.
You’ll be able to view the official music video for Thy Turning into Everlasting right here:
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