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Still sealed 2021 pressing in digipak

Beherit released Finland’s first full-fledged black metal album when the released the classic lo-fi black metal album, The Oath Of Black Blood a year earlier than the by far more successful act Impaled Nazarene. They also did some visual frightening and outrageous live performances, complete with a full satan worshipping goat on stage show. This gave the band a small but extremely dedicated cult following. But after the albums Werewolf, Semen and Blood, Messe Des Morts and Drawing Down The Moon the band fell apart and vocalist/guitarist and founder Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance took the band into a whole new phase when he started to experiment with darkwave and ambient synth sounds. First out was 1994’s enigmatic H418ov21.C (short for House 418 of 21st Century) that was the bands first dark ambient recording, it would later be followed by Electric Doom Synthesis. H418ov21.C actually feels like it left over interludes from Drawing Down The Moon. It has desolate electronics and some black metal vocals that make this recording feel as occult as their earlier stuff. I would say that this album is the perfect transition from black metal to what would come next as the band keeps a lot of the overall Beherit vibe and sound from the earlier album. The next album, Electric Doom Synthesis, would abandon everything that was Beherit and had nothing to do with black metal beyond the bands name.

Track list:
1. The Gate Of Inanna
2. Tribal Death
3. Emotional Ecstasy
4. Fish
5. 21st Century
6. Paradise (Part II)
7. Mystik Force
8. Spirit Of The God Of Fire
9. E-scape