Beherit

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Beherit
General information
Genre (s) Black metal , dark ambient
founding 1989 (as a pseudo-Christian), 2008
resolution 1996
Founding members
Marko "Nuclear Holocausto" Laiho
Daemon Fornication
Jari "Sodomatic Slaughter" Pirinen (until 1993, since 2008)
Current occupation
Vocals, electric guitar, keyboard
 Marko "Nuclear Holocausto" Laiho
guitar
 Sami "Ancient Corpse Desekrator" Tenetz (since 2008)
bass
 Abyss (since 2008)
Drums
 Jari "Sodomatic Slaughter" Pirinen (until 1993, since 2008)
former members
bass
 Arjo Wennström
bass
 Black Jesus
Drums
 Necroperversor
Drums
 Kimmo Luttinen

Beherit is one of the first Finnish black metal bands.

history

The band was founded in 1989 under the name Pseudochrist and later renamed Beherit . Within half a year they recorded three demos titled Seventh Blasphemy , Morbid Rehearsals and Demonomancy . The third of these demos caught the attention of Turbo Music, which enabled the band to record a single called Dawn of Satan's Millennium . The four songs of this single were released together with the seven songs of the Demonomancy demo on an album under the name The Oath of Black Blood . This release is not recognized as official by the band.

In 1993 the album Drawing Down the Moon was released, which became a classic within the scene.

This was followed by two albums, which Nuclear Holocausto recorded single-handedly and which can be assigned to the dark ambient . In 1996 he broke up the band.

In 2008 Nuclear Holocausto resumed the band activities with Sodomatic Slaughter and the two new musicians Sami Tenetz ( Thy Serpent ) and Abyss and began work on a new album. Engram was finally released on April 9, 2009 and entered the Finnish album charts at number 10. This album is based on Black Metal again, but deviates from the style of the old recordings. In 2011, At the Devil's Studio was released in 1990 . This is the lost first studio album by Beherit, which was recorded in 1990. The recordings for this were considered lost for a long time and were rediscovered after 21 years. These are in the "noisy" style of the demos and the debut EP.

Surname

The name Beherit was taken from Anton Szandor LaVey's Satanic Bible . They claim that Beherit is a Syrian name for Satan ; Holocausto Vengeance adopted this claim. This name does not exist in Syriac; In various Semitic languages ​​there is a root bhr 'shine' / 'shine' / 'shine', in Mandean next to this root the term bhrt for a spirit of light. Beherit as a devil's name appears in modern literature, where it is sometimes equated with the demon Berith from Ars Goetia . Its name in turn is reminiscent of the Hebrew בְּרִית ' Bund ' as the synonymous bryt in Samaritan-Palestinian Aramaic .

Music genre

At first Beherit sounded like Sarcófago and Death , singer Holocausto Vengeance also stated blasphemy as a major influence. The style of the first recordings is described as primitive, noisy and chaotic.

Holocausto Dark Ambient played on H418ov21.C and Electric Doom Synthesis .

With the album Engram , according to Diana Glöckner from Metal Hammer, “the return to old values” took place, the album offered “the best black metal of the mangy kind”. Here, according to Glöckner's colleague Melanie Aschenbrenner, the band plays “in a tried and tested manner”. She describes the music as "carnage".

ideology

Concerning its attitude to Satanism , Nuclear Holocausto expressed itself inconsistently in the first phase of Beherit. In Psychopathological , he pointed to the Satanic Bible as the source for the name Beherit, but refused to answer the subject. In the 1990s, however, he referred to elements of "modern" Satanism according to Anton Szandor LaVey and the Church of Satan founded by him (like most of the Nine Satanic Statements ) and had connections u. a. on Kerry Bolton's Order of the Left Hand Path. Because of its proximity to ideas of the Church of Satan, Beherit was attacked, among others, by Varg Vikernes von Burzum , a member of the Norwegian scene at the time; conversely, Holocausto described the anti-LaVey attitude of the Norwegian Black Metallers, for example, as childish. Around the time that Drawing Down the Moon was being made, he became increasingly interested in Odinism and Ásatrú and claimed to be an Odinist. In the meantime he has "nothing to do with satanic organizations for years".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Engram
  FI 10 16/2009 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1993: Drawing Down the Moon
  • 1994: H418ov21.C
  • 1995: Electric Doom Synthesis
  • 2009: Engram
  • 2011: At the Devil's Studio 1990

Demos

  • 1990: Seventh Blasphemy
  • 1990: Morbid Rehearsals
  • 1990: Demonomancy
  • 1991: Unreleased Studio Tracks
  • 1992: Promo 1992

EPs

  • 1991: Dawn of Satan's Millennium
  • 1991: Beherit / Death Yell (split with Death Yell)
  • 1993: Messe des morts
  • 1999: Messe des morts / Angelcunt (Split with Archgoat )
  • 2012: Celebrate the Dead

Compilations

Sampler contributions

  • 1993: Paradise of Thy Demonic Host on Vinnum Dei Satanas - The Wine of Satan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview: Beherit ( memento of the original from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anus.com
  2. ↑ Blissfulviolet: Beherit - The Return of Goat Worship ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beyondthedarkhorizon.com
  3. ↑ a b The Unsane: Beherit . In: Master of Brutality , No. 5, January 1994.
  4. ^ Stefan Löns: Beherit . In: Witchcraft , No. 2, November 1993.
  5. ↑ a b finnishcharts.com: Beherit in the Finnish charts
  6. ↑ Chris: Beherit - At the Devil's Studio 1990 .
  7. ↑ Beherit: At the Devil's Studio 1990 ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apochs.net
  8. ↑ a b c d Kanz-Noz: Beherit . In: Psychopathological Zine . 1990 ( over-blog.com [accessed August 1, 2014]). Beherit ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / psychopathological.over-blog.com
  9. ^ Anton Szandor LaVey : The Satanic Bible / The Satanic Rituals . Index Verlag, Zeltingen-Rachtig 2007, ISBN 978-3-936878-05-9 , pp. 76 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 1, 2014] American English: The Satanic Bible / The Satanic Rituals . 1969. Translated by Ingrid Meyer).
  10. ^ Anton Szandor LaVey : La Bible Satanique . Camion Noir, 2006, ISBN 2-910196-60-7 , p. 79 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 1, 2014] American English: The Satanic Bible . 1969.).
  11. ^ R. Payne Smith: A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith . Ed .: J. Payne Smith. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana 1998, ISBN 1-57506-032-9 , pp. 36 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 1, 2014]).
  12. ↑ bhr. The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, accessed August 1, 2014 .
  13. ^ Wilhelm Gesenius : Wilhelm Gesenius' Hebrew and Aramaic concise dictionary on the Old Testament . In connection with Prof. Albert Socin and Prof. H. Zimmer edited by Dr. Frants Buhl , professor of theology at the University of Leipzig. twelfth completely revised edition. FCW Vogel publisher, Leipzig 1895, p. 91 ( uni-frankfurt.de [PDF; accessed on August 1, 2014]).
  14. ↑ bhrt. The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, accessed August 1, 2014 .
  15. ^ Theresa Bane: Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures . McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina 2012, pp. 76 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed August 1, 2014]).
  16. ↑ bryt. The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, accessed August 1, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Fafnir: BEHERIT - The Oath of Black Blood. Terrorverlag, January 29, 2005, accessed August 20, 2014 .
  18. ↑ a b Turov: Beherit # The Oath of black Blood. Vönger Musikmagazin, April 9, 2004, accessed on August 20, 2014 .
  19. ^ A b Diana Glöckner: Beherit . Mortalable. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, July 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 88 .
  20. ↑ Melanie Aschenbrenner: Beherit . Engram. In: Metal Hammer . Axel Springer Mediahouse München GmbH, July 2009, ISSN  1614-2292 , p. 97 .
  21. ^ Håvard Ellefsen : Beherit . In: ZAST , No. 2.
  22. ↑ Beherit . In: Sepulchral Noise , No. 5, March 1991.
  23. ↑ Burzum . In: Charontaphos . No. 1 , 1993 ( fmp666.com [accessed August 1, 2014]).
  24. ↑ Beherit . In: Goetia . No. 2 , 1994, p. 34 .
  25. ↑ Richard Klasen: BEHERIT . Night bus to Chiang Mai  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) In: Legacy , No. 61.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.legacy.de