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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Behemoth

Above the high temple ov matter
Svastikas ov time slash the heaven
And from the pit, from the slime
From the thought
Gliphotic intruder decays
Lilith, Thantilaxath, Zi'uaq
Non-manifestation born in the dark ov a day
Can you hear distant desert call?
And stone you see - by Adytum builders
...rejected, damned?
Deeper, deeper, in the night, world, fear
Towards the noctuary ov the truth
From the mirror we crawls out
Devouring Eden's light
In the tunnels ov Seth he abides
Shugal, The Howler!
Who am I? Where I'm going? Where?
We live dreaming
Slipping from body to body
And nightmares still our breath
And his in our souls
Poisoning with the venom ov existence
Just say "Illusion"
When the first sunray falls
In your hawk eye
And don't look in the past
It hurts and there the Shadow lies in wait
So with every step on the oath
Beyond good and evil
Stronger GOD you became