I Loved You At Your Darkest

Vinyl LP pressing. "It doesn't get more blasphemous than this." That's Behemoth mastermind Nergal talking about the title of the band's eleventh and latest album, I Loved You At Your Darkest. While it certainly seems an unlikely title for a black metal band - especially one that called their last album The Satanist - it's origin might surprise you even more than the words themselves. "It's a verse from the Bible," Nergal reveals. "It's actually a quote from Jesus Christ himself. For Behemoth to use it as the basis of our record, it's sacrilege to the extreme." A crushing salvo of black metal majesty replete with hellish riffs, thundering drum cannonades and soaring liturgical choirs reminiscent of classic horror cinema, the album is also bejeweled with nimble-fingered rock guitar solos on songs like "God=Dog," "Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica" and "Sabbath Mater."