I Loved You at Your Darkest

Behemoth is a famous blackened death metal band from Poland. I could compare their style to Nile, Morbid Angel and Krisiun. Only ''The Satanist'' was a bit different and more original. ''I Loved You At Your Darkest'' seems to be a failed continuation of ''The Satanist'' which was Behemoth's very big commercial success. Although I think ''The Satanist'' was quite overrated, it has few interesting moments such as ''Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer'' or ''Ben Sahar'' which are very memorable tracks and Inferno proved that he is one of the best black/death metal drummers who can play very fast and intense. Just check ''In the Absence ov Light''.

In general there are not many tracks here which are listenable, but I can divide this album into two parts. The first one begins with ''Solve'' which is an intro done by the children choir and it's something new for Behemoth. ''Wolves ov Siberia'' is quite decent song with some interesting riffs and fast tempo. The next track ''God = Dog'' is unexpectedly the best track on this album with very intense blasts done by Inferno and riffs similar to ''Wolves of Siberia''. Only the choir is quite unnecessary here, but let it be. Some moments of ''Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica'' sounds like a rock music, but it's even a memorable song. ''Bartzabel'' is a very good invocation to gods of war and it's very catchy track as well. Here ends ''the better'' side of ''ILYAYD".

When it comes to the second part I don't see a point in describing every song one after the other. Fusion of rock with black or death metal is very common nowadays and it's nothing wrong in it, but you have to know how to do it. Behemoth just failed with it. Moreover, the second part of this album lacks creativity and new ideas for music which make the second part of ''ILYAYD'' sounds very boring and forgettable. Behemoth rarely uses instrumental tracks but here ''Coagvla'' is an instrumental outro which finally ends this album.

Before the release of ''ILYAYD'' Nergal said it will be more blasphemous than ''The Satanist'' was, but it isn't. There is just a lot of hype around this album, but it's not really worth it. If you are into blackened death metal you should avoid ''ILYAYD'', because it's more a hard rock album with black/death metal image. Frequently such experiments are interesting, yet sometimes good, sometimes not. Here it's mediocre. The quality is certainly very good, but the music itself is very tiresome and forgettable.