Behemoth is an influential Polish blackened death metalband. They are considered to have played one of the most important roles in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside Gravelandand Sacrilegium. Until the early 2000's, the band played rather classical black metalwith heathen lyrical content, but soon changed to occult and thelemic themes written by their lead vocalist (Nergal) and the occultist and poet Krzysztof Azarewicz. This coincided with an increase in musical craftsmanship that allowed them to move beyond the black metal underground and garnered them some international recognition. With the 2004 release of Demigod, they had fully embraced brutal technical death metal while retaining their own signature style characterized by the staggering drumwork of Inferno, multi-layered vocals and Nile-style middle-eastern influence.
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ov circus my world wiseman call'd
ov drunken trickster bed
and not violators of thoughts they're
for life is a theatre
in which actors all we are
but when curtain is open
there is no time for any reh's
and as all lights turn'd on were
and the first act is begun...
...and the last my mouth I open'd
i, purple sage in the universal
and I speak in tongue unknown
and behold all stood in flames
su na'aq tem kah chaph keb ngaa sul tamed mes
no sedem cha'no umes maog etem chaph keb la'at
qui sulib
and hardly ye remember dark november days
when received ye rain ov sulphur
when earth came apart under thine feet
and wasn't it rage ov thine god
and wasn't ye his somdom
it's "only" laugh mine empty
sob silent and helpless gesture