With their new album The Satanist only just released (and already getting plenty of plaudits), Behemoth came to London this week to headline a show on top of a stacked bill of bands to remind people why it’s already being touted as an early contender for one of the albums of the year. Okay, technically it was a co-headline with Cradle of Filth, but there was no argument over who was going on last. Cheryl Carter hit the Kentish Town Forum early doors to catch the whole show. Well, nearly the whole show.

6 things we learnt while watching Behemoth in London:

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Behemoth
The Satanist
Nuclear Blast
03 February 2014

by Cheryl Carter

If you’re setting out to write a record with such an obviously blasphemous message, then you better have the balls and knowledge to back it up. Behemoth have both in deliciously heathen spades and The Satanist swirls with a current of dark, deep, fiery understanding of the underworld and its many denizens.

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Is there anything better than a Thrash Hits Festival Splash Page? Yeah, loads of things but you won’t find the best online festival coverage on any of them. You’ll find that right here. All our work from Bloodstock Open 2012 is going be linked to from this page (eventually), so give it a bookmark or just don’t close it, because it’s all you’re going to need. Interviews, photos, setlists, rumours, and who knows? – maybe even some tiny reviews – it’s all here. [Read more →]

We can’t really remember too much about Behemoth’s Friday night headline-set at Bloodstock Festival 2012 as we were way too far gone by the point – luckily for us, our snapper Gary Wolstenholme was on hand to shoot a sweet photo gallery of Nergal and his gang of blackened death metal monsters.

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