way back at christmas 2011 i bought some stuff from animate rec for the first and until now the last time. from that time on i knew that they had this record here in store. but in 2011 i was still of the opinion that i should prefer a picture disc over a normal black vinyl version. nuclear blast just pressed black vinyl and a limited amount of picture discs for this album. the picture discs come in a common cardboard sleeve and not in those crappy plastic pieces of sh... so i thought it'd be ok to get one of them. of course they had sold out at nb two years after the initial release and so i had to seek other sources. it turned out to be a difficult task. couldn't find it in the usual places like ebay or discogs. it only crossed my path once in an american vinyl internet shop called invinylwetrust.com (which seems to have downsized a bit since i surfed there the last time) but it was pretty pricey and so i abandoned the idea.
in the meantime almost two years passed and i considered to buy another record at animate which i wanted since christmas 2011, too (upcoming post). i searched through the stuff to add something to my cart and behemoth came up in the b section. i already repressed my memory concerning this record. at this point i really hate picture discs and changed my mind. of course the scale turns in favour for black vinyl now. somehow i was lucky now not to have been able to score a picture disc before.
the album itself is a scorcher. blackened tech death metal at its best. 'evangelion' bursts with energy and especially the drummer is not of this earth - stunning to listen to. the lyrics are pretty cryptic so thankfully they included liner notes (but even with them the content is beyond my grasp sometimes). if you like fast death metal of any kind it seems unlikely you never heard of them but if so, do yourself a favour and check it out!
the presentation is almost perfect. sweet 180gr black vinyl, nice fold out insert with all lyrics and liner notes and great mystic artwork all around. only thing that sucks is the inner gatefold sleeve. waste of space and material. i spare you the view because this is what i do too when pulling the record out of the sleeve.
nuclear blast limited this black version to 1000 copies. i have #280. 2009.
