Ever the creative innovators, Poland’s Extreme Metal overlords, BEHEMOTH, have revealed their latest visual feast, “Opvs Contra Cvltvram”, a streaming event shot on the roof of Warsaw’s renowned Palace Of Culture & Science and premiering at 12 PM, ET on Thursday, September 15th on the band’s YouTube channel. This landmark event heralds the arrival of the band’s epic twelfth studio album “Opvs Contra Natvram”, out September 16th via Nuclear Blast.
BEHEMOTH’s leader and artistic alchemist, Adam “Nergal” Darski, informs: “Legions! We have gathered atop Poland’s infamous Palace Of Culture & Science to perform four brand new tracks from our record ‘Opvs Contra Natvram’, released this Friday! For a long time, BEHEMOTH have been censored and pursued by the Catholic Church at the behest of our fascist government. This performance, with the backdrop of this building, represents a monumentous middle finger to those pigs and another for Joseph Stalin and his Soviet circle-jerk. Viva Freedom!”
“Opvs Contra Natvram” is the sheer embodiment of rebellion, individuality and unflinching self-expression, shaped by a literary worldview. It also reflects a musical evolution, there’s little doubt that “Opvs Contra Natvram” is BEHEMOTH’s strongest and most sophisticated musical collection to date.
BEHEMOTH are not only the creators of Poland’s Extreme Metal scene, but they are masters of their vision and showcasing what a band can achieve when hard work is put in. With “Opvs Contra Natvram”, they have created 10 fresh chapters at a very strange time for the world. Their goal to create something new, something that doesn’t sound like anything that has gone before, is an ambitious one.
Renowned for his meticulous attention to detail and absolute creative control of BEHEMOTH‘s world, frontman and band visionary, Adam “Nergal” Darski reveled in the depressurized environment afforded by the pandemic. It meant that for nearly the first time since the band’s inception over 30 years ago, there was no deadline to observe, allowing for a nearly unprecedented level of attention to the process of writing and recording.
Beyond any confines of genre, BEHEMOTH have grown to become nothing less than the personification of rebellion, individuality, and unflinching self-expression informed by a literate worldview and worldliness that’s resulted in a locking of horns with everything from the mainstream press to the Polish Catholic church — most notably manifesting in Nergal’s trial for blasphemy in 2010 that only served to expose the deep-seated hypocrisies that his music seeks to challenge.
“Opvs Contra Natvram” features twin cover art available in both black and white and will be released in an array of physical formats designed by Bartek Rogalewicz (Lodge.Black), certain to thrill collectors of limited editions.
“Opvs Contra Natvram” track listing:
- Post-God Nirvana
- Malaria Vvlgata
- The Deathless Sun
- Ov My Herculean Exile
- Neo-Spartacvs
- Disinheritance
- Off to War!
- Once upon a Pale Horse
- Thy Becoming Eternal
- Versvs Christvs
