Demigod

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Band Name Behemoth (PL)
Album Name Demigod
Type Album
Дата релиза 19 Октябрь 2004
Recorded at Hendrix Studios
Музыкальный стильDeath Black
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Tracklist

DISC - JAPAN VERSION - Re-Issue in 2010 by Regain Records with a bonus DVD.
Re-Issue in 2014 by Peaceville Records on vinyl.
1.
 Sculpting the Throne ov Seth
 04:41
2.
 Demigod
 03:31
3.
 Conquer All
 03:29
4.
 The Nephilim Rising
 04:20
5.
 Towards Babylon
 03:21
6.
 Before Æons Came
 02:58
7.
 Mysterium Coniunctionis (Hermanubis)
 03:40
8.
 Xul
 03:11
9.
 Slaves Shall Serve
 03:04
10.
 The Reign ov Shemsu-Hor
 08:26

Bonus
11.
 Conjuration ov Sleep Daemons
 03:25
12.
 Welcome to Hell (Venom Cover)
 03:15

Total playing time: 47:21



DVD (Re-Issue 2010) - Recorded live in Leeuwarden, Holland, 10/12/2007.
1.
 Slaying the Prophets ov Isa
 03:24
2.
 Antichristian Phenomenon
 04:15
3.
 Demigod
 03:31
4.
 From the Pagan Vastlands
 03:03
5.
 Prometherion
 03:36
6.
 Conquer All
 03:51
7.
 Christgrinding Avenue
 04:49
8.
 As Above So Below
 05:36
9.
 Decade ov Therion
 02:50
10.
 Chant for Ezkaton 2000
 06:21
11.
 I Got Erection (Turbonegro Cover)
 04:36

Total playing time: 45:52

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Behemoth (PL)



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Обзор @ WarMetal

19 Ноябрь 2005

Demigod. This is a heaven gift which I’ve never expected, especially from these polishes known for years as a black metal reference. But if we look closer to the evolution of the band these last years we’ll realize that it was logical that Nergal & Co. Would do their last battles on the death metal scene.

How to start ? This album is so amazing that it was difficult to describe. It’s a kind of extraordinary force locked up in a small space and trying to get free even by ruining everything on its way ! And the result is : a real slaughter !

It’s a pure death metal album on the american way that the band is offering now. A real accumulated know-how in years. The lead guitar plays an ear-catching death metal riffs with an oriental shade going with a well done rhythmical and a drum which the least to say is that it was Excellent. The arrangement was so well made and even perfect : even the small details were controlled. The solos are excellent too and linked up with an incredible fluidity and fineness without even talking about the amazing structure which prove that the all was made by a master hands (Conquer All, The Nephilim Rising, Xul). A master that planned everything to the point of preparing us before every solo’s begining. Sometimes we can get an unexpected riff that can come out after the solo and thus to be a logical suite.

The vocals of Nergal are so powerful and matched as it should be with the riffs in iron of the guitar (Before Aeons Came). The drummer provide an excellent performance with itense, ultra-speedy and various rythm and also an original work which only the big names of drums (Gene Hoglan, Sean Malone, Hellhammer…) can naturally give us. Speed, precision that give us the envy to plan an extra-time just to appreciate the drums.

An enormous production with an agressive sound demonstration on all the levels : guitar riffs, vocals, drums,…

At the end, it’s a real masterpiece offered to us by the polish band and a hard punch to the face of the new band orientation detractors which are devoid of arguments in front of a technical, agressive, amazing and especially original Demigod.

An European lesson on a field that until now is strictly reserved to americans, and our polishes are abviously here to stay and to challenge…Who dare for more ?

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Crinn - 25 Апрель 2012: It's ironic that you called it a "heaven gift"
CLucker666 - 26 Апрель 2012: hahahaha good one^
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Обзор @ Crinn

30 Апрель 2012

The amount of sheer power and brutality is inconceivable.

I first saw Behemoth play live at the Mayhem Festival in 2009. Before then, I had never even heard of Behemoth. A couple of days after I was left speechless by the power of Behemoth’s performance and the level of violence of their moshpit, I got my hands on the first Behemoth album I could find, and it turned out to be Demigod. This is one of the first extreme metal albums that I can remember that blew my mind the FIRST time I heard it. And not only that, my feelings for this album have grown exponentially since then.

Believe it or not, there are actually quite a few people out there in the world that consider Behemoth just to be black metal. Although black metal is very evident in Behemoth’s music, these guys are just simply WAY too fucking brutal and insane to just be black metal. The only way to make black metal THIS extreme is to throw a hell of a lot of death metal in there. The main thing that makes Demigod unique is that it doesn’t seem to mix in death metal…it sounds more like brutal death. And I’m not talking about the “slamming” brutal death stuff that’s BRUTAL, but not SUPER barbaric, I’m talking about the kind of brutality that’s created by bands like Hate Eternal, Aborted (particularly Goremageddeon), and Nile.

As difficult as it is, I’m going to put the sheer brutality and chaos aside and see what lies behind it. This album’s (and actually Behemoth’s) most recognizable trait is the seemingly forced out growls performed by Nerghal. Ever since I first got this album, Nerghal’s growls have been the thing that I’ve always recognized the most…those absolutely demonic vocals. Nerghal’s growls ARE NOT the deep, guttural kind that I have a major soft spot for. They sound very strained and forced out with a lot of voice; which could make “mid-range” a fairly (although not totally) accurate description of the pitch of his growls. Here’s why I particularly love the vocals on the Demigod record: the other guitarists does deep guttural growls and/or mid-ranged screams right along Nerghal’s unique vocals. This altogether makes one hell of a powerful vocal package.

The drumming is so breathtaking that it’s indescribable. Although he didn’t to this either of the times that I saw them, but I’ve seen live videos on YouTube of the drummer breaking out into a massive solo that left the audience paralyzed. Just the fact that he has the confidence to even DO a solo onstage makes him a fantastic drummer! But regardless, he is the spine-chilling growl of this Behemoth that has the power to consume the stars in the night sky. Ok, now let’s look at the bass. You can’t hear the clanging of the bassist picking the strings, but his bass is so deep and so loud that you can hear every note that he’s playing; which (yet again) only adds to the immense power of this Demigod. The reason why you can’t hear the higher-end of the bassist’s guitar is because the two guitars have so much power, crunch, and volume that they pretty much swallow it all up. Any other case, this would be a bad thing; but the vocals and drums have enough power to smash through the barbaric sound of the guitars in order to be heard clearly.

Speaking of guitars, one of the best guitarists of all-time is featured on the most extreme and brutal song on this album, Karl Sanders, who plays on the song Xul. Basically, if you want to hear the definition of mayhem, play this song and it will jump out of your speakers and relentlessly take you by the throat. Honestly, even though there is a large amount of black metal that has been incorporated in this album, the term “melodic” fails to describe any part of this album; it just simply doesn’t exist within this Demigod. Although some of the songs are much more brutal than others, the “less brutal” songs still manage to surpass the brutality of Suffocation, Cattle Decapitation, and Skinless; as well as MATCHING the brutality level of Hate Eternal, Devourment, Nile, and Fleshgod Apocalypse.

Overall, this album couldn’t possibly be any better. Behemoth needed to spend some time in the realms of extreme brutality to give a new twist to their sound that was starting to become monotonous. I would give this album a perfect score and would consider it an absolute essential for ANY metalhead’s music collection. There’s only one other Behemoth album that I’ve given a perfect score to, and that’s Pandemonic Incantations. After this literally grabbed the attention of the mainstream rock and metal media, Behemoth then released their most famous and bestselling album, The Apostasy. My favorite song off of this album is the HEAVY headbanging track which is the last song off the album as well as Before the Aeons Came and the title track, Demigod.

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CLucker666 - 30 Апрель 2012: the reason people say they are black metal is because they use to be raw black metal when they started, listen to there demonica compilation and youll see
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