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BEHERIT
1991 - The Oath Of Black Blood.
1993 - Drawing Down The Moon.
1996 - Electric Doom Synthesis.
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September 14, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: The Oath Of Black Blood.

The unorthodox.

Not a complete record, but a compilation of two demos. And as the legend goes, the band spent the studio-budget on alcohol, leaving the indie-label no choice but to release unfinished mixes ...how rocknroll. Hateful, grimy and sometime painfully unlistenable, yet this underground kvlt klassick remains a pivotal act in blackmetal's history.

Out of all places, these bastards are from Finland, blackmetal's future battleground and direct commercial-competition to the fan-favorite Norway. The Gates are wide open and we now must face ...BEHERIT !

The opening massacre "Metal Of Death" leaves nothing to the imagination: this is vile. The title-track for "The Oath Of Black Blood" is pure Christian-hatred. Somewhere it's time for a seance of "Witchcraft" and some bestial "Goat Worship". Darkness will always rule.

Side Two: the nightmarish eerie-intro into "Black Mass Prayer" and Armageddon explodes into oblivion on "Beast Of Damnation". The speedmetal riffing of the closing-track "Dawn Of Satan's Millennium" is a primitive cacophonous satanic desecration.

Two minutes to midnight.

More unstable and more macabre than deathmetal, it's late 1991 and the dawn of blackmetal's dominion is here. The stage is set for an onslaught, as upcoming attacks from DARKTHRONE, IMMORTAL and BURZUM would break the deathlike silence. An unexpected air-raid: Black Metal's Second Wave.

The hellish BEHERIT shall hail more ritualistic black arts, with 1993's Drawing Down The Moon CD.

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The Oath Of Black Blood = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq5LU3icpB4&list=PLwsd0eXTJdoPtVclqBAR1qufmPQxJ5cCb
At The Devil's Studio 1990 = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Z0qDnXVL0&list=PL8fnEU0T_zUfVt5mYjX9EeVhYqx7lvp_u
Live in Finland in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug7wmd_LnMk

November 13, 1993 - 2023: 30 years of: Drawing Down The Moon.

The goat-worshipping continues...

After 1991's demo-on-CD The Oath Of Black Blood desecration, more barbaric blackmetal would ascent from The Gates ...Of Nanna. Black Metal's Second Wave was at full swing, Bible-punching and Church-burning and Finland's BEHERIT would provide a soundtrack of morbid tales.

The "Tireheb" intro invokes the spirit: Hail Satan ! ...as "Salomon's Gate" are opened for business. Fast-paced blackmetal, not grind, just enough to make the Holy Priest weep as "Nocturnal Evil" and the burst of "Down There..." rips the skin off the chosen Nazarene.

The ultra heavy atmospheres of "Sadomatic Rites" and "Black Arts" brings hints of CANDLEMASS riffing-patterns. The cold and ambient interlude of "Nuclear Girl" would be a prelude of the incoming dramatic turn of events of 1994, but before, the heavyrock feel of "Unholy Pagan Fire" and "Thou Angel Of The Gods" are the final gatherings.

From blazing speeds to blackened rocknroll, this is a raw feast of darken blackmetal ...as we ritualistically merge into their divine powers.

From pure evil to ethereal industrial, BEHERIT ...or actually Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance's 1994 full 90° Cold Lake-turn ambient soundscapes H418ov21.C CD, would set the scene unto a new trailblazing left hand path: Black-Metal Electronica.

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Drawing Down The Moon = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqk12aXNmMU&list=OLAK5uy_nALh3cqBN5ioa1Nb_BwzV8wgAeXRD_Vi4

June 6, 1996 - 2026: 30 years of: Electric Doom Synthesis.

A total berserk.

Finland's evil ones gets electrified. Long gone since 1994's spiritual awakening H418ov21.C CD ...extreme-metal is now traded with sonic-electrons. The mutation is complete, the black mass prayers of BEHERIT are now industrial merchants.

Past the Gates Of Inanna, a dark cloud overs ...an "Ambush". From noise trash to industrial, with the menacing "We Worship", we end up "Dead Inside". Supported by tribal rhythms, the fusion jazz of "Beyond Vision" is a from beyond outlook, while riding through eclectic soundscapes, the trek of "Drawing Down The Moon" is an experience in overdrive.

A synthesis for a synthetic decade.

BEHERIT would disappear, be dormant and comeback later with 2009's Engram CD ...a testament to Nuclear Holocausto's creative storm.

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Electric Doom Synthesis = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMEfyS679Y

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