Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)
''Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)'' is the debut studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in April 1995 by Pagan Records Pagan Records is an independent record label, independent extreme metal record label based in Poland. Their roster includes bands such as Azarath (band), Azarath, Behemoth (band), Behemoth, Christ Agony (band), Christ Agony and other black met .... It has since been re-released through numerous other labels. The album inside cover artwork shows ''The Temple of Swarog'' by Stanisław Jakubowski. Track listing Note: The 2021 reissue has only the first nine songs on CD 1. Personnel Release history References {{Authority control Behemoth (band) albums 1995 debut albums Albums produced by Adam Darski Pagan Records albums ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Behemoth (band)
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground with Vader (band), Vader and Hate (band), Hate. History Early career and first five albums (1991–2000) Behemoth was formed in 1991 as a trio, with Adam Darski, Nergal on lead guitar and vocals, Adam Muraszko, Baal on drums, and Desecrator on rhythm guitar. They started with the demos ''Endless Damnation'', and ''The Return of the Northern Moon''. The most significant however, was the fourth demo—''...From the Pagan Vastlands'' (1994). This tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records, and later on through Wild Rags. Their next release was ''Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)'' in 1995. A year later, they recorded their second album ''Grom (album), Grom'', which was released in 1996. ''Grom'' features many different influences and musical styles, using female vocals as well as acoustic guitars and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Black Metal
Black metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include Tempo#Beats per minute, fast tempos, a Screaming (music)#Black metal, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted Electric guitar, guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (Lo-fi music, lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms. Venom (band), Venom initiated the "First-wave black metal, first wave" of black metal, with their 1982 album ''Black Metal (Venom album), Black Metal'' giving it its name. In the following years, the style was developed by Bathory (band), Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. By 1987, this wave had declined, but influential works were released by Tormentor (band), Tormentor, Sarcófago, Parabellum (Colombian band), Parabellum, Blasphemy (band), Blasphemy, Samael (band), Samael and Rotting Christ. A "Second-wave black metal, second wave" arose in the early ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pagan Records
Pagan Records is an independent record label, independent extreme metal record label based in Poland. Their roster includes bands such as Azarath (band), Azarath, Behemoth (band), Behemoth, Christ Agony (band), Christ Agony and other black metal bands. Bands ;Current * Blasphemy Rites * Blaze of Perdition * Bloodthirst * Demonic Slaughter * Furia (band), Furia * Gortal * Massemord * Mord'A'Stigmata * Mordhell * Misteria * Pandemonium * Strandhogg * Throneum * Thy Worshiper * Voidhanger ;Former * Anima Damnata * Azarath (band), Azarath * Behemoth (band), Behemoth * Christ Agony (band), Christ Agony * CSSABA * Damnation * Esqarial * Hell-Born * Hellveto * Hermh * Imperator (disbanded) * Luna Ad Noctum * Lux Occulta * Moon * Nightly Gale * Nominon * Non Opus Dei * North * Profanum (disbanded) * Revelation of Doom * Sacrilegium * Sathanas * Stillborn (band), Stillborn * Trauma (Polish band), Trauma * Varathron * Witchmaster References External links Official website { ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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From The Pagan Vastlands
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground with Vader and Hate. History Early career and first five albums (1991–2000) Behemoth was formed in 1991 as a trio, with Nergal on lead guitar and vocals, Baal on drums, and Desecrator on rhythm guitar. They started with the demos '' Endless Damnation'', and ''The Return of the Northern Moon''. The most significant however, was the fourth demo—'' ...From the Pagan Vastlands'' (1994). This tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records, and later on through Wild Rags. Their next release was ''Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)'' in 1995. A year later, they recorded their second album '' Grom'', which was released in 1996. ''Grom'' features many different influences and musical styles, using female vocals as well as acoustic guitars and synthesizers. At the same time, Behemoth finally got a chance to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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And The Forests Dream Eternally
''And the Forests Dream Eternally'' is the debut EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in August 1995 through Italian label Enthopy Records. The EP was recorded in July 1994 in Warrior Studio. "Pure Evil and Hate" is a tribute to Bathory. It is one of the band's most popular songs and is often a closer for live performances. The EP was re-released in 1997 by Last Episode Records in a split with ''Forbidden Spaces'' by Polish black metal band Damnation. It was re-issued again in 2005, with the tracks from another Behemoth EP, ''Bewitching the Pomerania'', as bonus tracks. On 18 September 2020 the EP was re-released again, by Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records (often shortened to Metal Blade) is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982 based in the U.S. state of California. The label primarily focuses on heavy metal. History Metal Blade Records was .... This re-issue included nine bonus tracks and came in different ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grom (album)
''Grom'' (Polish for "Thunder") is the second studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was recorded and mixed from December 1995 to January 1996 and was originally released in January 1996 through Solistitium Records, and later by Pagan Records. The album is Behemoth's last release before their shift into a death metal sound. Critical reception AllMusic wrote of the album: "One of the most controversial and diverse albums in the band's career, the album is intriguing for several reasons: it not only featured keyboards and female vocals, but showed Behemoth's uniqueness from the start, with their novel combination of black, viking and thrash metal Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an Extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, ...." Track listing Personnel Release history References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Extreme Metal
Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual transgression". The term usually refers to a more abrasive, harsher, underground, non-commercialized style associated with the speed metal, thrash metal, black metal, death metal, and doom metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' (Berg Publishers, 2007), , p. 31. Hardcore punk has been considered an integral part of the development of extreme metal in song structure and speed, apart from the case of doom metal. Definitions Extreme metal acts set themselves apart from traditional heavy metal acts, such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Motörhead, by incorporating more abrasive musical characteristics such as higher tempos, increased aggression and a harsher extremity. In the majority of the world ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adam Darski
Adam Nergal Darski (born Adam Michał Darski, 10 June 1977), often referred to by his stage name Nergal, is a Polish musician, best known as the frontman of the extreme metal band Behemoth (band), Behemoth. Career Nergal was born Adam Michał Darski in Gdynia, raised Catholic, and started playing guitar at age eight. He goes by the stage name Nergal (naming himself after a Babylonian mythology, Babylonian deity), and he is the founder, lyricist, main composer, frontman and manager of the band Behemoth, which he started when he was still a teenager. He also plays lead, rhythm and Steel-string acoustic guitar, acoustic guitar. For a brief time, he used the alias Holocausto, inspired by Beherit (band), Beherit leader Nuclear Holocausto. In the late 1990s, he was a vocalist and guitarist of the Danzig-influenced band, Wolverine, which was showcasing Nergal's capability of clean singing. He is also known for his contributions with the following bands: Hermh, Nile (band), Nile, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adam Muraszko
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground with Vader and Hate. History Early career and first five albums (1991–2000) Behemoth was formed in 1991 as a trio, with Nergal on lead guitar and vocals, Baal on drums, and Desecrator on rhythm guitar. They started with the demos ''Endless Damnation'', and ''The Return of the Northern Moon''. The most significant however, was the fourth demo—'' ...From the Pagan Vastlands'' (1994). This tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records, and later on through Wild Rags. Their next release was ''Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)'' in 1995. A year later, they recorded their second album '' Grom'', which was released in 1996. ''Grom'' features many different influences and musical styles, using female vocals as well as acoustic guitars and synthesizers. At the same time, Behemoth finally got a chance to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christ Agony (band)
Christ Agony is a Polish black metal band from Morąg, formed in 1990. Due to legal problems between 2005-2007 Christ Agony performed under the name ''Union''. Band members ;Current members *Cezary "Cezar" Augustynowicz – guitar, vocals (1990–2003, 2005–2007, 2007-) ; Past members *Michał "Armagog" Samol - bass guitar (2017) * Tomasz "Reyash" Rejek – bass guitar, vocals (2000–2003, 2005–2007, 2007-) *Dariusz "Młody" Płaszewski – drums (2005–2006, 2012-) *Marek "G-Hatt" Banaszewski – guitar (2000-2001) *Andrzej "Ash" Get – bass guitar, vocals (1990–1995) * Maurycy "Mauser" Stefanowicz – bass guitar (1995–1997) *Jarosław "Blackie" Mielczarek – bass guitar, vocals (1997–2000) *Piotr "Mścisław" Bajus – bass guitar, vocals (2010) *Adam "Żurek" Żuromski – drums (1990–1995) *Maciej "Gilan" Liszewski – drums (1995–1998) * Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski – drums (session, 1998, 1999) *Przemysław "Thoarinus" Wojewoda – drums (1998–2000 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Thiérrée
David Thiérrée is a French artist born in 1970 in La Rochelle (France). Self-taught, he has contributed since 1989 - 1990 to create images and logos for several metal bands, first for his own band Somberness, then for other bands, labels and fanzines worldwide, including Behemoth (band), Behemoth, Mütiilation, Mutiilation, Vlad Tepes (band), Vlad Tepes, Osculum infame, Osculum Infame, The Ancients Rebirth, Graveland, Warloghe, Malleus Maleficarum, and Anwyl. His works can also be seen on several materials from bands such as Gorgoroth (band), Gorgoroth, Mortiis, and Gehenna (band), Gehenna, or linked to the promotion of other bands, like Strid, and Enslaved (band), Enslaved,. Since 2000, he has been more focused on classic Fantasy illustration, and recently came back to artwork for metal bands. His works have been shown in several exhibitions (France, Belgium, England), and several books are available, in collaboration with Édouard Brasey, Edouard Brasey, Le Pré aux Clercs, Les M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |