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Behemoth - God=Dog

Kiddos chanting Jesus - 30%

Grumpy Cat, November 4th, 2018

It all starts with the oh so subtle calm intro that leads into heavy metal madness. Kinda, it actually reminds me of the intro to the band's same work in "Slaves Shall Serve" except replacing the demonic chanting with some softer more mellow clean guitar melody and a relaxed drum beat. This of course rapid fires into the heavy section with blast beats and a... not much heavier or dirtier guitar tone.

It's not an unusual song per se, but it is an odd choice for a promotional single coming from a hard hitting blackened death metal band, especially as promotion for an album that was bragged as something that would "kill a million emo kids" or something to that edgy effect. It doesn't hit hard, after Nergal delivers some of his usual growled vox we get a brief chanting section and the song delves back into a sort of noodle melodic section that heys broken up by repetitive brief blast beats, this part then comes up a bit later too, like a ballad of sorts but when it comes back we get a kid's choir playing call and response with Nergal's vox and melodic solo.

The kid's choir is honestly the most memorable thing here, and my favorite part of the song despite its cheesiness, but its just that, its cheesy and I'm not sure what effect it was supposed to add to the song. Perhaps hearing kids yell "JESUS CHRIST" was the band's attempt to try and reinvigorate their shock value? I honestly don't know, what I do know though is that I expected a hard hitting blackened death metal single and instead I'm finding a light weight gothic metal track. Behemoth sure tried to make the song dark, they just managed to find the wrong side of the dark metal pallet and certainly not the evil side of it they promised to deliver.