Slaves Shall Serve

As everybody knows, Behemoth was a good band when they were a black metal act. Though it seems that wannabe metal teenies haven't yet realized that, as a death metal act, Behemoth is a bad band.

Main thing that ruins Slaves Shall Serve (as every nowadays Behemoth record), is how this album sounds. This sounds very plastic. Nergal's 'death growl' sounds like wind, since it's effected so heavily. Drums are obviously triggered, at least they sound like a drum machine. Guitars have also been mixed to sound like shit. That's anyway quite indifferent, because most of stuff is not too imaginative. Songs are chaotic as hell, full of crappy riffs. Behemoth are trying to reach aggressive and menacing atmosphere, but fail badly: because of plastic sounds this doesn't sound very heavy, even if there's a lot of bass and a lot of distortion. Drummer Inferno is very good drummer, but his drum lines are not so good, just unimaginative blast beats, blast beats and blast beats.

Also the tracks are quite bad, though even if they were good, the producing would still make them sound bad, since the mixing is abysmal. Title track is presented here twice - I have vinyl version of this album, so I don't have the music video, which is idiotic anyway. At least the LP release also also presents comical live pictures of band, which look like a bad joke, thanks to 'medieval' clothing of the band... Though it's mediocre track, it's still the best one on this album. It has also very funny lyrics, however I think they weren't met to be funny.

Also the Nefilim cover "Penetration" is alright, though it's not good because of Behemoth, but because it's quite well composed track... Another songs are bad, excluding Danzig cover "Until You Call on the Dark", which I hated as Danzig song, and I hate as Behemoth song. It's beyond bad.

To be honest, I hate the whole EP. If I had a bunch of slaves that would fucking serve, I'd probably like to order them to destroy all copies of this EP.