EMP Rock Invasion earlier in the year conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Adam “Nergal” Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH. You can now watch the chat below.
Speaking about BEHEMOTH‘s propensity for writing music that, despite its extreme nature, possesses a lot of “hooks,” Darski said: “I like hooks. I mean, we all [grew up on] rock and roll, and I like rock and roll song structures.”
He continued: “I’m officially [an] anti-fan of today’s extreme metal bands that are just taking part in this rat race, trying to play as many notes as they can, play as many arpeggios within three-minute-long songs as they can, and it’s just missing hooks, it’s just missing the point. There is no rock spirit within the music.”
Asked what defines “rock spirit” for him, Darski said: “Balls. There’s balls in riffs and in the songwriting and in the approach. I don’t think it’s definable. It’s either there or it’s not, and I’m sure that [BEHEMOTH‘s latest album] ‘The Satanist’ has a lot of balls.”
BEHEMOTH released a limited-edition, hand-numbered 12-inch EP called “Xiadz” in November. The EP was made avaialble in three vinyl colors.
“Xiadz” is strictly limited to 500 vinyl copies worldwide and was not made available on CD. Black vinyl, black-gold splatter, and gold vinyl gatefold, 180-gram editions containing the previously unreleased tracks “Xiadz” and “Towards The Dying Sun We March”, as well as a re-recorded version of “Moonspell Rites” were made available to order at this location.
BEHEMOTH‘s latest album, “The Satanist”, sold around 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 34 on The Billboard 200 chart.
The band’s ninth full-length studio CD, 2009’s “Evangelion”, opened with around 8,500 units to land at No. 56.
“The Satanist” was released on February 3 in the U.K., February 4 in North America and Poland, February 5 in Japan, and February 7 in the rest of the world.
Source: Blabbermouth
