Slaves Shall Serve

I've never taken the initiative to listen to Behemoth before because I've always thought that if a band didn't care enough to come up with a creative title, then they probably don't care enough to make good music either. But I was wrong! I found this CD yesterday and figured that since it was so cheap I might as well at least give it a preview, and I'm glad I did. The brutality far exceded my expectations for a band with such a generic name.

The guitar riffs are bad ass, and the tone is unbelievable. Even the solos were decent, although a bit too short and random for my tastes. The drums were heavier than what I'm used to and the double bass kicks were unbelievably fast in some parts. I didn't think the vocals were as good as they could have been, but they weren't so bad as to ruin the music, either. I guess they were more-or-less average for death metal.

I think the highlight of the album is Penetration (track three), although the title track is also pretty good. My least favorite is Until You Call On The Dark (track four), because the main riff in the song sounds like something by Smashing Pumpkins, only with a better guitar tone and less annoying vocals.

The Slaves Shall Serve video didn't really do anything for me. I generally don't like metal music videos anyway, because they tend to be random and confusing, and not have very much to do with the song. This video was no different, but at least they had some hot bitches in corsettes to make up for it. I guess they were supposed to be representative of sex slaves, or something.

Overall, I have no idea how well this album compares to anything else by the same band, but it's not bad by itself. At the very least, I think it's worth the $8.99 that I payed for it.