My review on Behexen's From the Devil's Chalice:
God, what the FUCK happened to Behexen? It's almost blasphemy to their name to say anything bad, but I'll try my best.
It kind of sucks that I have to even say one unkind word about this album, since I had such high hopes for it. Behexen's new mediocre album, From the Devil's Chalice came out on June 6th of 2009. When I first picked it up I knew something was off, but I continued to proceed to listen. To be honest, the opening is like One by Metallica. Not musically, but its fucking epic all around, I mean Shit...its just in your face blast beats and screaming, with fast paced melodic guitars, the problem is that after the first track, well everything sounds so much alike. Its just one long song that doesn't seem to end, no matter what you do. Even the best songs should not be so repetitive. Torog's vocals were turned down way to much for me to take the album serious. In fact, it seems like the entire album was more focused on Horns' blast beats and Reaper's guitar parts.
The album art is way too simple for a Behexen album. It's just two crossed chalices entwined with snakes over their band logo. Though I do admit that it is a good album art, it just doesn't have the impact like all the earlier artwork.
Every bad album has at least one good thing, and Behexen's good thing is the drums. Holy shit, it sounded like Horns was playing the drums with his dick as well as his hands and feet. Sometimes the blast beats would get up to near 275 bpm (beats per minute). Reaper and Gargantum's guitar parts sounded normal, just a little louder.
At times, this album seemed like an EP, because of its shortness (its just under 30 minutes). Thats nothing bad, its just weird that they would make such a short album, but whatever works for them. I mean since By the Blessing of Satan, they just havn't been tickling my pickle with a silver nickel if you catch my drift.
It pains me to say this, but pass this album by and shun it. It's a black mark on Behexen's greatness. Its not worth the 7.99 I saw it priced for. Hell it's not worth 3.50. I don't even know what to say when I listen to this album. It's near the worst black metal album of 2009.
TLDR version: take a ten inch dildo made of black rubber and ram it up your ass. Thats how this album sounded (and felt to listen to.)
