The return of the venerable Behemoth with their thirteenth studio album, and if I am honest, nothing has actually changed. This sounds like Behemoth, and as ever, they are mightily pissed off with God and everyone who thinks that he is one of the good guys. It is classic Behemoth; big production black metal with gargantuan choruses and an up-tempo approach. As ever, it sounds divine, slick and distinctively nasty and malevolent. Behemoth does Stadium black extremely well, and every track here is a blasphemous stonker full of righteous anger and indignity. They bring nothing new to the black altar, but that’s the point. There are lots of imitators (even here on this list), but there is only one Behemoth.

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