New Behemoth LP, Sept 16th

2022-05-11 by Fernando Alves STAFF | 50 Comments
Polish blackened death metallers Behemoth will be dropping their twelfth studio album, titled Opvs Contra Natvram, on September 16th via Nuclear Blast Records. A music video for the first single, 'Ov My Herculean Exile', can be seen below.


Written & Directed by: Zuzanna Plisz

"The album title means 'going against the current'. It’s the negative of the values and morals and ethics that I, Nergal, stand against. I’ve seriously been wrestling with destructive tendencies in pop culture - cancel culture, social media, and tools which I feel are very dangerous weapons in the hands of people who are not competent to judge others. That’s something which I find very destructive and disturbing - and extremely limiting coming from an artists’ perspective.

This album is my middle finger to that."

Opvs Contra Natvram was produced by the band with mixing handled by Joe Barresi (Nine Inch Nails, Tool, QOTSA, Alice in Chains).

Tracklist:
1. Post-God Nirvana
2. Malaria Vvlgata
3. The Deathless Sun
4. Ov My Herculean Exile
5. Neo-Spartacvs
6. Disinheritance
7. Off to War!
8. Once upon a Pale Horse
9. Thy Becoming Eternal
10. Versvs Christvs

Pre-order at: https://behemoth.bfan.link/opvs-contra-natvram

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Comatorium.
May 11th 2022
5045 Comments


Definitely a behemoth song

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
May 11th 2022
25868 Comments


“I’ve seriously been wrestling with destructive tendencies in pop culture - cancel culture, social media”

ho boy this is really gonna suck isn’t it hahahah.

Pikazilla
May 11th 2022
29751 Comments


Song is pretty good

Better than anything they did in their 1999-2009 era

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


based behemoth

kevbogz
May 11th 2022
6098 Comments


opus contra naturam seems like an incredibly loose translation of "going against the current"....

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


is it september 16th yet?

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


yeah i was like 'a work against nature' ok sounds behemothy then he drops that and im like...ok. at least the latins correct unlike every other bm album

migueldemolina
May 11th 2022
40 Comments


Song's okay.

The music video on the other hand feels like one of those horror movie teasers where they cut everything except the good parts out.
In other words, bretty good.

Flugmorph
May 11th 2022
34157 Comments


poggerino?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

someone
Contributing Reviewer
May 11th 2022
6604 Comments


they've been on autopilot for a while now, but i'm still excited

Surtur
May 11th 2022
634 Comments


lol

Sabrutin
May 11th 2022
9674 Comments


ov

Sabrutin
May 11th 2022
9674 Comments


ovrot

DungeonBoy
May 11th 2022
9702 Comments


maybe in the context of the album this will be a more interesting track. Really dug the Satanist and can't remember a thing about ILYAYD, so curious where this will land for me

FellHanded
May 11th 2022
591 Comments


“This album is my middle finger to that”

so edgy

BigPleb
May 11th 2022
65784 Comments


OK song, feels a bit flat idk.

Gameofmetal
Emeritus
May 11th 2022
11570 Comments


Really like the video, but the song is aggressively boring. Hard pass on boomer metal bands that aren't remotely transgressive anymore talking about fucking cancel culture of all things.

alkostach
May 11th 2022
277 Comments


>Better than anything they did in their 1999-2009 era
hahaha, you so funny.

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


i mean if yall didnt keep calling them nazis this wouldnt have happened

Thor
May 11th 2022
10355 Comments


ok song but incredible video

InFlamesWeThrash666
May 11th 2022
10558 Comments


Boring af

cloakanddagger
May 11th 2022
730 Comments


"Hard pass on boomer metal bands that aren't remotely transgressive anymore talking about fucking cancel culture of all things."

It's even more ironic coming from a frontman who has been persecuted by the catholic church. I'm looking forward to the mental gymnastics he's gonna pull trying to equate that to being roasted on Twitter.

Gameofmetal
Emeritus
May 11th 2022
11570 Comments


"i mean if yall didnt keep calling them nazis this wouldnt have happened"

idk if he's a nazi or something, haven't really seen that evidence, but it was a tad concerning when he cheerily told a tour story of watching a bunch of guys rape a woman and him having no issue at all with it.

Aluktodolo
May 11th 2022
550 Comments


Nothing screams subversion and counter culture more than sounding like a fossilised republican.

pjquinones747
May 11th 2022
4241 Comments


saw a twitter comment minutes ago that i assume is about this which resonates pretty well: "not to be a gatekeeper but making an album about how people are mean to you on social media for your political opinions is one of the least metal things you can do as a band."

WretchedCacophony
May 11th 2022
2901 Comments


"It's even more ironic coming from a frontman who has been persecuted by the catholic church. I'm looking forward to the mental gymnastics he's gonna pull trying to equate that to being roasted on Twitter."
Where's the irony? Because cancel culture = removal of what is not approved by a controlling body i.e. the church looking to eliminate Nergal? (though I imagine his gripe might be more likely with entities like twitter?)
Has the definition of irony been changed in recent years?

twlight
May 11th 2022
8732 Comments


basic ass song

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


by all means shout it from the rooftops so he gets crucified then and make sure everyone knows on every thread

just save the chihuahua

vermillionZ
May 11th 2022
397 Comments


Decent song, just nothing groundbreaking or new. Was kind of skeptical after not liking the first single of their last album, but the album ended up being pretty good overall. Hopefully it's the same here.

ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


i believe amber heard

JayEnder
May 11th 2022
19818 Comments


Gnarly music vid. Song is dece but pretty run of the mill Behemoth. Still like it more than basically everything on ILYAYD

kevbogz
May 11th 2022
6098 Comments


"Where's the irony? Because cancel culture = removal of what is not approved by a controlling body i.e. the church looking to eliminate Nergal? (though I imagine his gripe might be more likely with entities like twitter?)
Has the definition of irony been changed in recent years?

because the catholic church is a real thing and twitter isn't

KevinKC
May 11th 2022
1261 Comments


The shift in register between the acceptable description and analysis of something the singer finds problematic and the conclusion "This album is my middle finger to that" is funny.



ToSmokMuzyki
May 11th 2022
10640 Comments


i thought u were kevinkfc n now im hungry

>because the catholic church is a real thing and twitter isn't

damn guess elon wasted billions shouldve bought the papacy instead

judasgoat
May 11th 2022
351 Comments


Man, between this, his social media comments and ILYAYD, Nergal is hell bent on destroying every shred of goodwill he accumulated during The Satanist era.

hesperus
May 11th 2022
1456 Comments


my favorite metal album is sunbather and even i think that album description is cringe

evilford
May 11th 2022
64209 Comments


Can't wait to not listen to this

Pikazilla
May 11th 2022
29751 Comments


polish bands do be coming back with these dumbass statements lately

first decapitated, now behemoth

who's next? vader?

naughtcturnal
May 12th 2022
2681 Comments


Can’t wwait for the mgla album about the slap

ToSmokMuzyki
May 12th 2022
10640 Comments


hell yea based poland

zaruyache
May 12th 2022
27384 Comments


can someone timestamp the good part because i think i missed it

ToSmokMuzyki
May 12th 2022
10640 Comments


0:00

g40st
May 12th 2022
917 Comments


Guy has literally been brought up on blasphemy criminal charges and still hates the libs more. Y'all do be that fucking annoying lol

alkostach
May 12th 2022
277 Comments


this track is amazingly underwhelming and boring.

FellHanded
May 12th 2022
591 Comments


I’d rather side with an annoying Greta Thunberg then a group of ethno nationalists. Just goes to show Behemoth knows who their audience is.

alkostach
May 12th 2022
277 Comments


>I’d rather side with an annoying Greta Thunberg then a group of ethno nationalists. Just goes to show Behemoth knows who their audience is.

pls do, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRqfsl9VPM

Flugmorph
May 12th 2022
34157 Comments


greta slaps

TheNotrap
Staff Reviewer
May 12th 2022
18936 Comments


So does Will

alkostach
May 12th 2022
277 Comments


^based

garas
Staff Reviewer
May 12th 2022
8059 Comments


Booooo an ultra basic and boring song... oh who could have guessed it?

Anyway, the clip was pretty cool though, ngl. I'd certainly watch if it'd be a real horror movie.



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