Belphegor have risen from a cult phenomenon to international underground icon status with their unique and infectious brand of "supreme death/black metal art"! Ever since their now legendary debut The Last Supper in 1995, mainman Helmuth and his henchmen have continuously worked all the way to the top with technical skill, sophisticated songwriting and highly blasphemous lyrics. After releasing Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn in 2009, Belphegor are now back with their fourth masterpiece for Nuclear Blast Records. Enter Blood Magick Necromance, an opus filled to the brim with dark and sinister anthems above and beyond anything they've done in the past. The eight new compositions are simply the most brutal, elegant, epic and gripping material they've delivered yet. Hypocrisy's Peter Tägtgren (Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Children of Bodom) produced the album while Joachim Luetke (Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy) provided the appropriately disturbing album artwork.
Belphegor presents their fifth diabolical masterpiece, Goatreich-Fleshcult; a musical bloodbath not ashamed to deliver variety. At the forefront are the expected neck breakers and fast Death Metal parts, which alternate with slower passages and breaks only to resume above and beyond all speed limits. Austria’s Belphegor proudly show their true colors: Death Metal with a merciless Black Metal spin.
The mantra, "Stagnation is Death!", could not ring truer for Austria's premier extreme metal act. On their eighth studio album, Belphegor have drawn lyrical and emotional inspiration from the mystical celebration of Walpurgisnacht. This celebration of springtime and fertility continues to fascinate with its stories of hedonistic midnight gatherings where unspeakable acts of evil and lust took place. The band pulled both lyrical content and inspiration from these fantastical and otherworldly tales which lent themselves perfectly to Belphegor's peverse and extreme attack. With Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn, the new echelon of blackened death metal, they take their creativity and songwriting prowess to infernal new depths. Catch them on tour this fall as part of the first-ever Pagan-themed Heathen Nation 2009 alongside Eluveitie, Alestorm & Vreid!
The mantra, "Stagnation is Death!", could not ring truer for Austria's premier extreme metal act. On their eighth studio album, Belphegor have drawn lyrical and emotional inspiration from the mystical celebration of Walpurgisnacht. This celebration of springtime and fertility continues to fascinate with its stories of hedonistic midnight gatherings where unspeakable acts of evil and lust took place. The band pulled both lyrical content and inspiration from these fantastical and otherworldly tales which lent themselves perfectly to Belphegor's peverse and extreme attack. With Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn, the new echelon of blackened death metal, they take their creativity and songwriting prowess to infernal new depths. Catch them on tour this fall as part of the first-ever Pagan-themed Heathen Nation 2009 alongside Eluveitie, Alestorm & Vreid!
